Opened 11 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#26302 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Specify display priority for list table columns
Reported by: | helen | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Administration | Keywords: | |
Focuses: | ui | Cc: |
Description
Responsive list tables hide certain columns via CSS. This is great, but it's essentially hardcoded into the admin CSS and, in some instances, we are not able to target specifically enough to not cause unintended hiding elsewhere.
I propose a display priority concept - a column can be indicated as "high", "normal", or "low" priority (or similar), and breakpoints can progressively hide columns based on that priority. Core can be opinionated by default, but given the proliferation of custom post types and taxonomies, as well as the reuse of WP_List_Table, a developer API could be quite nice here.
Example of the concept: http://filamentgroup.com/lab/responsive_design_approach_for_complex_multicolumn_data_tables/
Previously: #26298 (bug caused by column names being the same between different object types but not of the same importance), #18198:77 (an experimental approach). Related: #25408 (indicating a primary column).
Related: #31989