Wp-calypso: Change homepage URL for newly created sites

[eoinsav]

When creating a new site, there are example pages created with generic content.

The Homepage is a static page with content and is given this URL: example.com/blog/

Then there is a Blog page created that is given this URL: example.com/blog-2/

We get users wanting to change their Blog page to example.com/blog/ but the Homepage URL needs to be changed first. This is awkward because the Homepage URL can only be changed by using Quick Edit in WP Admin.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a brand new site at https://wordpress.com/start/
2. Try and change the Blog page URL from /blog-2/ to /blog/
3. You won't be able to because the Homepage is given the /blog/ URL.
4. You will need to change the Homepage URL using the Quick Edit button in WP Admin first.

What I expected

I expected the Homepage to have the URL example.com/home/ and the Blog page to have example.com/blog/

What happened instead

The Homepage is given the URL example.com/blog/ and the Blog page is given the URL example.com/blog-2/

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[ianstewart]

I think this could be fixed in the Headstart annotations by changing the post_name value for the Home page to home and the post_name value for the Blog page to blog

cc @niranjan-uma-shankar because I think you might have worked on this last and might know which of the Headstart annotations need changing.

[niranjan-uma-shankar]

Thanks, I've added it to our project board.

[niranjan-uma-shankar]

Needs review: D45473-code

[claudiucelfilip]

LGTM

[niranjan-uma-shankar]

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