Homepage: Posts page & static home page in the Site Editor

[richtabor]

This tracking issue serves as a high-level view of the effort around configuring and editing a site's homepage within the Site Editor. The goal here is to make the notion of home and posts pages (and corresponding templates) less confusing.

Ready to do

• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63788
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63784
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63787

In Discussion

• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/56244
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63666
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63786
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63660
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63662
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63667
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63748
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63785
• [ ] https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/60772

[carolinan]

Settings > Reading: add a connection to the home template for block themes: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/61626

[felixarntz]

Related: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/discussions/64620