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#25603 closed task (blessed) (fixed)

Update about page for WordPress 3.7

Reported by: jorbin's profile jorbin Owned by: nacin's profile nacin
Milestone: 3.7 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 3.7
Component: Help/About Keywords: has-patch
Focuses: Cc:

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25603.diff (8.3 KB) - added by jorbin 10 years ago.
25603.2.diff (8.3 KB) - added by jorbin 10 years ago.
25603.3.diff (8.6 KB) - added by jorbin 10 years ago.
25603.4.diff (11.0 KB) - added by nacin 10 years ago.
25603.5.diff (3.9 KB) - added by jorbin 10 years ago.
25603.6.diff (8.5 KB) - added by melchoyce 10 years ago.
about-images.zip (46.3 KB) - added by melchoyce 10 years ago.
25603.7.diff (12.6 KB) - added by melchoyce 10 years ago.
25603.8.diff (10.8 KB) - added by jorbin 10 years ago.
25603.9.diff (10.7 KB) - added by jorbin 10 years ago.
25603.patch (8.5 KB) - added by ocean90 10 years ago.
25603.2.patch (10.3 KB) - added by ocean90 10 years ago.
25603.10.diff (2.0 KB) - added by jorbin 10 years ago.
25603.11.diff (1.5 KB) - added by jorbin 10 years ago.
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25603.22.diff (5.9 KB) - added by nacin 10 years ago.
With filter name change. send_core_update_notification_email
25603.23.diff (5.9 KB) - added by nacin 10 years ago.
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Change History (75)

#1 @jorbin
10 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added

#2 @jorbin
10 years ago

https://i.cloudup.com/uZV0dEwZOF-3000x3000.png

Last edited 10 years ago by jorbin (previous) (diff)

@jorbin
10 years ago

@jorbin
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@jorbin
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#3 @jorbin
10 years ago

Another pass

https://i.cloudup.com/irmROhWBuN-3000x3000.png

@nacin
10 years ago

#4 @nacin
10 years ago

markjaquith and I took jorbin's text and turned it into this (see 25603.4.diff for the very rough cut). The images were a cut-and-paste job from some sample about page designs that melchoyce did. Yes, that is an actual working password meter. markjaquith and I have plans to fill it with default values (add a character every second and watch as it cycles through each level, before clearing it again - until the user focuses on the field to try it themselves).

Please critique the text in particular. The UI needs work; suggestions are also welcome. But finalizing the text is key in order to hit RC1.

I didn't cut off remaining Under the Hood items — there are only three. The others just aren't very compelling. (Even the multisite one isn't very compelling.) Let's keep it simple.

http://cl.ly/image/3y370r0p3i3s/Screen%20Shot%202013-10-17%20at%204.27.57%20AM.png

Version 0, edited 10 years ago by nacin (next)

#5 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25832:

Update the text for the about page, so translators can get started. Design is in flux.

props nacin, markjaquith, jorbin, jenmylo.
see #25603.

#6 @nacin
10 years ago

With [25832], the lid is closed on the text (barring any typos). jorbin is working on the password meter and he and melchoyce I think are trying to improve the page visually. I'm okay with doing this right after RC1 — important part is the strings for translators.

#7 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25833:

Check if background core updates are supported on about.php.

see #25603, #22704.

#8 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25834:

Remove redundant code. see #25603, #22704, [25833].

@jorbin
10 years ago

#9 @jorbin
10 years ago

My new patch adds some animation and a working password strength meter.

@melchoyce
10 years ago

#10 @melchoyce
10 years ago

This latest patch adds images into the page to help illustrate the major sections.

I ran into some issues trying to size the images. No matter what size image I use, the page resizes it to 100px x whatever is proportionate. I have no idea how to fix it to use the native image size. Right now, I'm using the 2x-sized images for better quality.

@melchoyce
10 years ago

#11 @melchoyce
10 years ago

Just kidding. Image sizes should be fixed in 25603.7.diff​.

@jorbin
10 years ago

#12 @jorbin
10 years ago

refreshed my patch to include mel's patch. Also fixed a race condition and renamed the file so it is more generic and we can then reuse the new about.js in the future when it might not be an animation.

@jorbin
10 years ago

#13 @jorbin
10 years ago

latest patch removes all include styles and an unneeded ternary. It will need some small fixes for older IEs (it's using nth-child right now), but should be good to get all the strings finalized.

#14 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25839:

Awesome about page design for WordPress 3.7.

The page includes a giant password meter that serves as both an animated example and a working demo. How cool is that?

props jorbin, melchoyce.
see #25603.

#15 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25840:

Remove rarr from about page text. Use a subtle background instead.

props markjaquith.
see #25603.

#16 @nacin
10 years ago

mark and I are not color experts — I defer to melchoyce if she wants to change the colors we used in [25840]. I just wanted to make sure the arrow was dropped from the strings, so translators could get to work.

Remaining issues (none are RC-blocking):

  • Better alignment of the input and password meter. Stupid content-box.
  • Older IEs.
  • When the animation resets, it stays on "Strong" for a time. This odd flicker happens with a normal meter too, but it's more glaring when it is an animation (at 200% size no less). Would be nice to fix.

#17 follow-up: @TobiasBg
10 years ago

Should the animated password "Gosh, WordPress is grand." be offered for translation and passed into the script via wp_localize_script?

#18 in reply to: ↑ 17 @SergeyBiryukov
10 years ago

Replying to TobiasBg:

Should the animated password "Gosh, WordPress is grand." be offered for translation and passed into the script via wp_localize_script?

I had the same thought, but the string isn't actually visible in the password meter.

#19 @TobiasBg
10 years ago

Ha, true, it's a password field after all :-) Nice one!

#20 follow-up: @Jayjdk
10 years ago

I can't see the images on a multisite install.

It tries to find the images at http://example.com/wp-admin/network/images/[name].png but the actual images are at http://example.com/wp-admin/images/[name].png

#21 in reply to: ↑ 20 ; follow-up: @ocean90
10 years ago

Replying to Jayjdk:

I can't see the images on a multisite install.

That's right. I think they are just placeholder and will be loaded from wordpress.org later.

#22 in reply to: ↑ 21 @nacin
10 years ago

Replying to ocean90:

Replying to Jayjdk:

I can't see the images on a multisite install.

That's right. I think they are just placeholder and will be loaded from wordpress.org later.

We did this for screenshots in 3.6 to keep the package size down. But this about page is very simplistic, and the images are only a few kilobytes each. So I committed them in [25839].

I'll change these to use full paths.

#23 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25842:

Use full paths to images so they work on wp-admin/network/about.php and user/about.php. see #25603.

@ocean90
10 years ago

@ocean90
10 years ago

#24 @ocean90
10 years ago

In 25844:

CSS cleanup for the about page.

Also fixes for IE and support for RTL.

see #25603.

#25 @nacin
10 years ago

  • Owner set to nacin
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In 25845:

About page: Use box-sizing: border-box on the password meter so pixels line up.

Also eliminates a duplicate width: 100% property.

fixes #25603.

#26 @ocean90
10 years ago

In 25846:

IE7: Fix width of the password input field on the about page. see #25603.

#27 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25847:

Since we're dealing with a huge password meter, don't bold half of the result strings unnecessarily. see #25603.

@jorbin
10 years ago

@jorbin
10 years ago

#28 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25848:

About page: Prevent the meter from briefly sticking on 'Strong' when the animation resets.

props jorbin.
see #25603.

@jorbin
10 years ago

@jorbin
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@jorbin
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@jorbin
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#29 @ocean90
10 years ago

In 25849:

Vendor-prefixes for [25845]. props jorbin. see #25603.

#30 follow-up: @pixolin
10 years ago

  • Cc pixolin@… added
  • Severity changed from normal to trivial

Perhaps the wrong place to report that, but having plugin MP6 installed, the about page looks somewhat screwed:
http://imgur.com/JA0xBvo

#31 in reply to: ↑ 30 @SergeyBiryukov
10 years ago

  • Severity changed from trivial to normal

Replying to pixolin:

Perhaps the wrong place to report that, but having plugin MP6 installed, the about page looks somewhat screwed:
http://imgur.com/JA0xBvo

Also reported in IRC: https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-dev&day=2013-10-18&sort=asc#m709151. Will be fixed in MP6.

#33 in reply to: ↑ 32 @knutsp
10 years ago

Replying to knutsp:

Related (?): http://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/211

Deactivate WordPress Beta Tester plugin, delete the transient wordpress_credits_$locale or wait 24 h for expiration, then revisit credits.php. It seems this plugin manipulates the version parameter of every (!) request to the WordPress.org API. This side effect is reported to the plugin authors.

@jorbin
10 years ago

#34 @jorbin
10 years ago

25603.16.diff adjusts the speed to be a bit faster and have a bit less variance.

Also, I took a look at the performance and each lookup to zxcvbn was taking the most amount of time, so I added a simple cache so that we don't hit zxcvbn after the first time through.

@jorbin
10 years ago

#35 @jorbin
10 years ago

  • Resolution fixed deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

@jorbin
10 years ago

@nacin
10 years ago

@nacin
10 years ago

#36 @nacin
10 years ago

As reported in IRC by boogah (also in discussion: jorbin, ipstenu, DH-Shredder, dotben), there are a few issues with the way the about page presents the background update status of the site:

  • It exposes the email address to everyone. Authors can see the admin_email, and in multisite, anyone can see the network admin email. (This email address is supposedly used for communication with users, but that's not really the case.) Suppressing the email is therefore necessary.
  • If auto updates are 100% disabled, we'll claim that we'll email users of pending updates — but that's not true, as the update notification is currently baked directly into the automatic updater class. I snuck in a comment yesterday in [25873], you can see it at the top: "This [100% disabling] also disables update notification emails. That may change in the future."

The solution proposed in 25603.20.diff does the following:

  • current_user_can( 'update_core' ) is required to view the site's status.
  • If the automatic updater is 100% disabled, we don't show anything either. This only happens for DISALLOW_FILE_MODS (for which current_user_can( 'update_core' ) fails anyway), AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED, and the automatic_updater_disabled filter. Note that this constant and filter is the updater, not particular updates. To only disable core updates, you will want to use the auto_update_core filter, the WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE constant, or the various allow_*_auto_core_updates filters (where * is 'dev', 'minor', and 'major').
  • It assumes that if the user can update_core, they can see the admin email.
  • It hides the notice about the email when the filter notify_core_update returns false. This is a new filter in the patch. Basically, this is a filter that is more general than the automatic updater, for a time in the future (probably 3.8) when emails are specifically top-level, rather than piggybacked to the updater process. (Thus, merely blocking the updater will not be enough to block emails in the future.)
  • Adds the notify_core_update filter because the filter auto_core_update_send_email also blocks critical failure and update success emails. We don't want people using that filter to block *notification* emails, because they might accidentally block fail/success emails as well. That _send_email filter isn't even run for 'manual' (update notification) emails anymore.

#37 @nacin
10 years ago

Just to be clear, 100% disabling the updater with AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED (or the like) doesn't just prevent core updates, it also prevents plugin, theme, and translation updates. Translation updates are on by default; the other two can be turned on with a filter.

@nacin
10 years ago

@nacin
10 years ago

With filter name change. send_core_update_notification_email

@nacin
10 years ago

#38 @markjaquith
10 years ago

Seems good. New filter name is more clear.

@azaozz
10 years ago

#39 @azaozz
10 years ago

In 25603.24.diff: cleaned up 25603.17.diff and replaced _.shuffle() with Math.floor( Math.random() * timesForAnimation.length ) as suggested by @nacin.

#40 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25882:

Introduce a send_core_update_notification_email filter to control whether to send update notifications.

Currently, this is dependent on whether the automatic updater is enabled (generally). This is likely to be decoupled in a future release.

This refocuses the auto_core_update_send_email filter to specifically be for success/fail emails for auto updates, while the new filter is more general.

see #25603.

#41 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25883:

About page, updates section: Don't show a message on about.php if the updater is 100% disabled. Don't show it if the user can't update core. Don't show the email if notifications are disabled. New string.

see #25603.

#42 @nacin
10 years ago

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

In 25884:

About page: Cache our zxcvbn calls and limit the variation of the animation.

Diff is mostly whitespace.

props jorbin, azaozz.
fixes #25603.

#43 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25885:

Introduce a send_core_update_notification_email filter to control whether to send update notifications.

Merges [25882] to the 3.7 branch.

Currently, this is dependent on whether the automatic updater is enabled (generally). This is likely to be decoupled in a future release.

This refocuses the auto_core_update_send_email filter to specifically be for success/fail emails for auto updates, while the new filter is more general.

see #25603.

#44 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25886:

About page, updates section: Don't show a message on about.php if the updater is 100% disabled. Don't show it if the user can't update core. Don't show the email if notifications are disabled. New string.

Merges [25883] to the 3.7 branch.
see #25603.

#45 @nacin
10 years ago

In 25887:

About page: Cache our zxcvbn calls and limit the variation of the animation.

Merges [25884] to the 3.7 branch.

Diff is mostly whitespace.

props jorbin, azaozz.
fixes #25603.

@azaozz
10 years ago

#46 @azaozz
10 years ago

25603.25.diff adds a long-missing </div> to fix html validation.

#47 @SergeyBiryukov
10 years ago

  • Version changed from trunk to 3.7
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