Menus admin styling adjustments

[filosofo]

From Jane on IRC:

• slidedown with arrow instead of edit/delete links
• make right column wider width so it doesn't have to change on expansion (or fluid, whatever)
• styling for the settings bit at top of right column
• not default to search
• are we doing most recent for pages? for both pages and cats it might be more useful than most used, b/c they'll likely go there when they add a new one, to add to menu
• can height of the modules on left column be determined by content rather than min height?

[koopersmith]

Also, we should assign the right column a max/fixed width so it doesn't fly to the bottom of the page when you edit an item (it's quite confusing, I know from experience!).

[koopersmith]

Patch of what I have so far.

• Right column is fluid, with a max-width of 600
• "height of the modules on left column determined by content rather than min height"
• Arrows appear permanently on add item boxes (instead of only on hover).
• (JS) Add menu item boxes slide up and down instead of instantly expanding/contracting. The second patch has a faster expansion speed.

[koopersmith]

Fixed bug where add menu item boxes required two clicks to open & wouldn't save open/closed state.

[koopersmith]

Left a stray console.log in there. Silly me.

[koopersmith]

Removed the sliding, because IE6 ruined the party. Sliding moved to #13147.

[ryan]

(In [14252]) Menu styling updates. Props koopersmith. see #13134

[filosofo]

I'm going to put this in a separate ticket because it needs a backend API change:

• are we doing most recent for pages? for both pages and cats it might be more useful than most used, b/c they'll likely go there when they add a new one, to add to menu

[ryan]

Text for + tab

[ryan]

(In [14254]) Explanatory text for the plus tab. see #13134

[ocean90]

Some small things from me:

• change the button text of the + tab to Create Menu
• add no opacity to the menu-item-settings section
• remove max-width: 600px; (or increase) from #menu-management, it looks weird on widescreens

[nacin]

(In [14283]) More nav menu fixes. props filosofo. see #13148. fixes #13155, fixes #13157, fixes #13138, see #13134.

[koopersmith]

Still a few bugs. Working them out.

[nacin]

(In [14286]) Nav menu UI updates. props koopersmith, see #13134.

[nacin]

(In [14287]) Nav menu UI updates. props koopersmith, see #13134.

[nacin]

(In [14288]) Small fixes to the initial nav menu message. props koopersmith, see #13134.

[nacin]

(In [14293]) Fix the ajax loading/processing spinner for nav menu meta boxes. see #13134.

[nacin]

(In [14294]) Fix typo in CSS. see #13134.

[ryan]

(In [14297]) Set nopaging for the wp_get_nav_menu_items() get_posts() call to avoid pointless found rows queries. see #13134

[ryan]

(In [14301]) Partially fix default hidden meta boxes for nav menus. see #13134

[ryan]

(In [14304]) Fix initial hidden meta boxes for nav menus. see #13134

[nacin]

(In [14314]) Small menu CSS tweak for item deletion. props koopersmith, see #13134.

[ocean90]

See #13186.

[duck_]

Replying to ryan:

(In [14254]) Explanatory text for the plus tab. see #13134

The text doesn't fully reflect the current actions you have to perform when creating a menu. As far as I can tell you have to save the menu before you can add items to it, the instructions seem to suggest that you can type in a name and start adding items immediately and after that click save.

To this effect small patch to change the button text to "Create Menu" on the plus tab and a few minor changes to instructions.

Not a major issue, but I think that strings for menus need to be completed soon for translators.

[nacin]

(In [14333]) Clarify menu creation versus save. props duck_, see #13134. Check in scripts for r14332, see #13204.

[koopersmith]

Closing, and relocating the only item left to #13217 ("Use most recent instead of most used in add menu item boxes").