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

• Posts page should directly editable in the Site Editor #63788
• When set to a static page "Edit site" should open the assigned homepage #63784
• When viewing the posts page, “Edit page” control should open the template #63787

In Discussion

• Make it easier to find and edit the "Home" page in the editor #56244
• Provide a way to set the homepage in the site editor #63666
• DocumentBar: Use home icon and label for default "Your latest posts" setup #63786
• Surface 'Posts per page' setting in more templates #63660
• When editing the posts page, include relevant template settings in the Inspector #63662
• Create and set a page_for_posts in the site editor #63667
• Improve the edit experience for the page that displays latest posts according to reading settings #63748
• Update the “Edit site” admin bar control to open the Site Editor at the top-level, consistently #63785
• Include homepage in page lists when set to display latest posts #60772

[carolinan]

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

[felixarntz]

Related: #64620

[audrasjb]

Noting that a related ticket on Trac is on high priority for 6.8 RC cycle: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63100