Selecting Network Themes & Appearance selection

[nonegiven]

In 'Super Admin > Themes' there is

a) no way to enable all themes, e.g. as there is to Posts > Select Title.

Additionally, by default all themes are disabled. This makes it tiresome for admins of MS sites to enable new themes when setting up a blog farm with a lot of themes (must manual click each one). At the very least, there is a strong need for an "enable all themes" option.

b) there is no way to sort themes, e.g. enable/disabled (like plugins), find newly added ones from amongst old themes, tag or categorize.

Again, this makes it tiresome for admins of MS sites to find and enable new themes. The above would also fix this.

c) there is no way to search for a specific themes, e.g. by name, by feature, by tag, date added etc.

i) This latter issue also arises in the users' Appearance > Manage Themes pane.

The 3 column, widely spaced design might be wonderful for sites where there are just a few themes but in farms where they are many, it makes finding and choosing tiresome.

ii) Specific to this, when testing themes, Manage Themes defaults to returning to the very first page of themes making finding where one was tiresome. It should default to which ever page of themes was being looked at.

iii) Only the first three page plus last page is shown, this could easily be replaced with a list, dropdown or scroll showing all pages of themes.

d) One suggest to resolving and improving this area could be to adopt a simple slideshow type display or one similar to Apple's Cover Flow.

e) It seems that many of the code components to improve this area already exist in the code, e.g. selecting, tagging, categorizing, gallery display, an many of the features of the post and page admin pages could be applied to improve it, e,g, the "quick edit, view, move to trash" type options.

f) Indeed, it would make more sense from a UI point of view to have the Appearance page follow the models of the Post and Pages page with smaller thumbnails.

And why are the PNGs thumbs all so large in size!?!

[scribu]

I find myself wasting a lot of time with the current UI, so +1 for a makeover.

[markmcwilliams]

Related: #14435

[PeteMall]

First pass at the new network admin themes panel.

[westi]

(In [16113]) First pass at a new Network Admins page for Theme enable/disable/upgrade. See #14897 props PeteMall.

[scribu]

(In [16117]) remove redundant 'Network ' prefix from action names and redundant display_tablenav() method. See #14897

[PeteMall]

Remove unused code.

[nacin]

(In [16120]) Remove old ajax handler. props PeteMall, see #14897.

[PeteMall]

Contextual help for network themes panel.

[PeteMall]

Fix search in network themes panel.

[scribu]

(In [16122]) Add contextual help for Network -> Sites. Props PeteMall. See #14897

[scribu]

(In [16123]) Fix search in network themes panel. Props PeteMall. See #14897

[ryan]

Having site-themes.php use this would be very nice.

[PeteMall]

Add edit theme action links.

[ryan]

(In [16140]) Add edit theme links. Props PeteMall. see #14897

[PeteMall]

Add theme updates to network themes panel.

[PeteMall]

Add theme update notification to admin menu.

[automattor]

(In [16141]) Add theme updates to the network themes screen. props PeteMall, see #14897.

[PeteMall]

Cleanup.

[PeteMall]

Cleanup.

[scribu]

(In [16193]) Network Themes cleanup. Props PeteMall. See #14897

[PeteMall]

Use bool for allowed themes.

[PeteMall]

Cleanup and overhaul site-themes.php.

[PeteMall]

Add $url.

[ryan]

(In [16242]) site-themes.php cleanup. Props PeteMall. see #14897

[PeteMall]

Add search to site-themes.

[nacin]

(In [16252]) Search for site-themes. props PeteMall, see #14897.

[ryan]

Screenshot

[PeteMall]

Add screen options to site-themes.

[scribu]

As per IRC discussion, we should use /network/themes.php for both site enabled themes and network enabled themes.

[scribu]

The idea being that there should be a single option for themes per page.

[ryan]

(In [16298]) Add screen options to site-themes. Props PeteMall. see #14897

[ryan]

(In [16335]) Set is_site_themes from current screen so the ajax request returns the proper rows for site-themes.php searches. see #14897

[PeteMall]

Cleanup.

[automattor]

(In [16559]) Site Themes cleanup. See #14897.

[PeteMall]

(In [16592]) Site themes cleanup. See #14897

[PeteMall]

Update and error messages.

[PeteMall]

(In [16606]) Update and error messages for site-themes. See #14897

[PeteMall]

(In [16620]) Remove theme udpate notification from site admin for multisite installs.

[PeteMall]

Remove update notifications from site-themes.

[PeteMall]

(In [16629]) Remove update notifications from site-themes. See #14897

[PeteMall]

s/Enable/Network Enable for net admin themes.

[PeteMall]

(In [16700]) s/Enable/Network Enable for net admin themes. Fixes #14897