Blog Posts Block: Provide guidance on where to Edit Posts

[ianstewart]

While inspecting sites created with Gutenboarding I've noticed several users adding new posts to directly to the content of their home pages. These have all looked like otherwise successful looking sites and it's unfortunate to see. Obviously, this is not ideal.

How might we fix this? When we create Blog Posts by default for starter content like so …

… one way might be to provide some sort of guidance to users on where they might add or edit posts when interacting with the dynamic Blog Posts Block on a page. I expect it might be difficult for a user to know what to do next from that screen to edit those posts or add to that space.

cc @rickybanister @olaolusoga @dubielzyk

[olaolusoga]

@joanrho here's an instance where contextual guidance might help. Maybe if a person selects the blog post block for the first time something happens that provides some context.

[ianstewart]

Will hopefully be superseded by Query Posts …

WordPress/gutenberg#23461

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[kathrynwp]

FWIW, this comes up super often in Quick Starts. Came up again today. Had to show user where to find the posts, as they were confused about not being able to edit the title or excerpt in the Blog Posts block.

[supernovia]

This is still a big thing.

@ianstewart -- now that block locking is available, could we lock the Post Content block or otherwise somehow stop people from deleting it?

Noting a similar issue in Core, but if that would be long in coming, perhaps we could at least set up our themes that way on .com?

[inaikem]

@supernovia, would you say this is something that still needs work on, or can we close this issue as done via other product updates over the past X years?