Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

#17783 new enhancement

Inconsistent theme management screens

Reported by: scribu Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Future Release
Component: Administration Version: 3.0
Severity: normal Keywords: needs-ui
Cc:

Description (last modified by scribu)

On single-site you have tabs, while on multi-site you have an "Add New" button:

/wp-admin/themes.php (single-site):

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/raw-attachment/ticket/17783/themes.png

/wp-admin/themes.php (multi-site):

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/raw-attachment/ticket/17783/ms-themes.png

/wp-admin/network/themes.php (multi-site):

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/raw-attachment/ticket/17783/ms-themes-network.png

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ms-themes-network.png (7.5 KB) - added by scribu 2 years ago.
ms-themes.png (6.3 KB) - added by scribu 2 years ago.
themes.png (7.4 KB) - added by scribu 2 years ago.
theme-install.png (7.4 KB) - added by scribu 2 years ago.
theme-install-network.png (7.3 KB) - added by scribu 2 years ago.

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Change History (13)

scribu2 years ago

scribu2 years ago

scribu2 years ago

  • Description modified (diff)

What's the inconsistency?

Single-site WP: The user can manage themes and install themes.

Multi-site WP: The user can only manage themes. (This is also the same view in single-site WP if the user can't install themes.) No need for tabs. Themes and plugins must be installed through the network admin.

Network/ Themes: The administrator can add new themes.

scribu2 years ago

scribu2 years ago

The inconsistency is that on single-site you have tabs and on multi-site you have an "Add New" button.

  • Description modified (diff)

Tabs remain an experiment. The plugins screen doesn't have them either.

There isn't much deliberate parallelism between the network admin and the regular admin. In particular, the themes management page looks completely different -- list table versus tiles.

Suggest close as wontfix. Once a direction is decided on tabs, we can choose how to implement.

  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to Future Release

It's a bug. Please don't close it until it's fixed, one way or another.

Also, I think there should be consistency in the theme display as well. Jane mentioned using list tables on all screens.

Last edited 2 years ago by scribu (previous) (diff)
  • Type changed from defect (bug) to enhancement
  • Version set to 3.0

If it's a usability experiment, how long does it have to run? Hasn't the user feedback been collected by now?

Sidenote: I must admit the tabs look a little better than in 3.0.

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