Opened 16 months ago

Closed 13 months ago

#19909 closed task (blessed) (fixed)

Appearance Improvements: An Overview

Reported by: koopersmith Owned by: koopersmith
Priority: normal Milestone: 3.4
Component: Appearance Version: 3.3.1
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: ocean90, scribu, sabreuse@…, marko@…, xoodrew@…, aaroncampbell, azizur, jeremy@…, ngomau@…, aadams@…, bobbravo2

Description (last modified by aaroncampbell)

The main target for the 3.4 appearance improvements will create a UI that allows users to simultaneously customize and preview their theme. Our initial target will be the theme switching process (in an a la carte fashion), which will then hopefully expand to more uses in the WordPress admin.

I'll update this ticket periodically with additional details. We'll have several teams working on different portions of the project simutaneously. See ​this post for more details on the 3.4 teams.

The customization UI will be built in several phases:

  • #19910: Build theme customization frame – koopersmith and ocean90
    • This consists of a UI that can communicate with and refresh a preview of any theme.
  • Add additional components to the frame (likely in this order)
    • Custom background.
    • Custom header.
    • Menu locations.
    • Widget locations.
  • Create configure/activate workflow within the frame

Other Appearance Improvements

  • Custom headers – aaroncampbell and sabreuse
    • #17242: Flexible heights for custom headers.
    • #19840: Use images from your media library.
  • Improved theme browser – DH-Shredder and helenyhou
    • #19815: Infinite scroll when browsing themes.
    • #19816: Support multiple screenshots per theme.
  • #19912: Widget locations API.
  • General menu UI improvements.
  • General widget UI improvements.

Change History (15)

comment:1   scribu — 16 months ago

  • Cc scribu added

comment:2   sabreuse — 16 months ago

  • Cc sabreuse@… added

comment:3   markoheijnen — 16 months ago

  • Cc marko@… added

comment:4   koopersmith — 16 months ago

  • Description modified (diff)
  • Status changed from new to accepted
  • Summary changed from Project Gandalf: An Overview to Appearance Improvements: An Overview

comment:5   koopersmith — 16 months ago

  • Description modified (diff)

comment:6   ocean90 — 16 months ago

  • Cc ocean90 added

comment:7   DrewAPicture — 16 months ago

  • Cc xoodrew@… added

comment:8   aaroncampbell — 16 months ago

  • Cc aaroncampbell added
  • Description modified (diff)

comment:9   azizur — 15 months ago

  • Cc azizur added

comment:10   hd-J — 15 months ago

  • Cc jeremy@… added

comment:11   mau — 14 months ago

  • Cc ngomau@… added

comment:12   andyadams — 14 months ago

  • Cc aadams@… added

comment:13   bobbravo2 — 13 months ago

  • Cc bobbravo2 added

comment:14   ryan — 13 months ago

  • Component changed from Themes to Appearance

comment:15   koopersmith — 13 months ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from accepted to closed

Closing this, as all tickets have been punted or closed except #19910 and #19840.

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