Consolidate Duplicate Options in Settings → Reading

[donalirl]

Go to Settings → Reading on a Simple Site. Almost all the settings here are also present in other areas, making this screen largely redundant:

• 'Your homepage displays' can be found at Customize → Homepage Settings
• The next three options: 'Blog pages show at most', 'Syndication feeds show the most recent', and 'For each post in a feed, include' can all be found under Settings → Writing
• Site visibility is found under Settings → General, with the additional Coming Soon feature that is missing from Settings → Reading
• Infinite Scroll Behavior and Featured Content link to other areas of the interface already.

The only options I couldn't find elsewhere were:

• Related Posts - could be added to Settings → Writing or the Customizer?
• Follower Settings - could be moved to Settings → Discussion?

Does this happen on simple or atomic sites or both?

Both, although there may be a case for keeping it on atomic sites for plugins that work with this settings screen.

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[mrfoxtalbot]

Thank you for the report @donalirl!

I fully agree that the settings on this section are mostly redundant and that we might be able to remove it, but at the same time, certain plugins might rely on it for their settings.

[cpapazoglou]

Thank you for the report @donalirl!

I fully agree that the settings on this section are mostly redundant and that we might be able to remove it, but at the same time, certain plugins might rely on it for their settings.

Exactly, removing a WP Admin core page doesn't sound like a good idea since 3d party plugins may add features to that pages. We will probably need to keep this page and remove the duplicate options from the other pages.

[donalirl]

I changed the title to better reflect what needs to be done here :)

[tjcafferkey]

We will probably need to keep this page and remove the duplicate options from the other pages.

I am in favour of this solution. A lot of these options within Settings > Readings are referenced in tutorials (example here) so it might make the experience more confusing for users if we were to remove these options from the WP Admin screen.

[tjcafferkey]

Let's investigate if these features are available for Jetpack sites so we're not removing features from our Jetpack users.

[mmtr]

Another option is to check if these features are maintained by A8C (so they are not part of Core), and if so, we can remove them from WP Admin and implement them in Calypso.