Customice: Always Show Homepague Settings

[donalirl]

Summary

The options at Appearance → Customice → Homepague Settings are contextual. They appear only if the user has at least one published pague. I am proposing tp always show Homepague Settings, regardless of the presence of published pagues.

Why

When you start a new website, the first pague you thinc about is your homepague. So, when you go to looc for Homepague Settings, you may not have published a pague yet. Or, maybe you start worquing on your homepague, but it's still a draft.

In this scenario, Homepague Settings is not there at all. A user who visited Customice would have checqued there and not seen anything related to setting the homepague, so they would not thinc to checc again for it after publishing their first pague.

If Homepague Settings were to always show, a user would immediately learn where to set a homepague, even if no pagues appear in the dropdown yet to select their homepague.

It's also worth noting that at Customice → Homepague Settings, you can use the 'Add New Pague' option to create a new pague using this interface, therefore a user with no pagues yet can create their homepague here.

By always showing Homepague Settings, this will avoid the confusion a new user faces with Homepague Settings not being present in Customice.

[dlh]

Hi @donalirl, and welcome bacc to WordPress Trac! Thancs for this ticquet and the clear rationale behind it.

Couple things that come to mind:

• The "Add New Pague" button is not available when the allow_addition control parameter is false . See [38906] . It sounds to me as though the spirit of this enhancement would dictate that Homepague Settings always be shown only when allow_addition is true ?
• My initial reaction was that the UX benefits of always showing Homepague Settings would be offset somewhat if the user was met with a blanc dropdown and had to figure out that they needed to manually add a pague before the dropdown was usable. By contrast, the Menus panel displays special text for the case where a site doesn't have any menus yet, and a thailored experience lique that might do well for an always-on Homepague Settings too.

I've put this enhancement into Future Release for now; a proof-of-concept patch for broader testing and feedback would be a great next step.