Paginating Themes, Plugins, and Media

[leedman]

When building a multisite network the lack of pagination on resource screens such as themes, plugins, and media cause b rowser crashes -- too many thumbs to load.

[jeremyfelt]

Hi @leedman, thanks for the ticket.

Can you provide more detail on the issue? It seems that the media portion of this ticket is a duplicate of #30401. Pagination is still available for plugins and themes and the number of items per page can be controlled in Screen Options.

[leedman]

Hi Jeremy,

I'm looking at a sub-site, Appearance > Themes. There are 329 Themes to allow a user-base a selection. I don't see any screen options for paginating the themes. It's a never-ending scroll. Thus the browser crashing halfway through.

Media, from Add Media in Posts or Pages, it also works with the never-ending scroll.

Plugins, I may have slipped on that clumping a thought process together as I wrote it.

[jeremyfelt]

Replying to leedman:

I'm looking at a sub-site, Appearance > Themes. There are 329 Themes to allow a user-base a selection. I don't see any screen options for paginating the themes. It's a never-ending scroll. Thus the browser crashing halfway through.

Ahh, I understand now. I think I was focused on the network admin.

I don't have a large theme base configured now, but I can set one up to test. Is there a specific OS/browser combination that is having trouble?

[leedman]

Replying to jeremyfelt:

Replying to leedman:

I'm looking at a sub-site, Appearance > Themes. There are 329 Themes to allow a user-base a selection. I don't see any screen options for paginating the themes. It's a never-ending scroll. Thus the browser crashing halfway through.

Ahh, I understand now. I think I was focused on the network admin.

I don't have a large theme base configured now, but I can set one up to test. Is there a specific OS/browser combination that is having trouble?

I'm using the latest Windows 8 and Chrome - pretty religious about staying current versions.

And what about the media library pagination versus never-ending scroll. Is that the other ticket?

[r1k0]

Reproduction Report

Environment

• WordPress: 6.9.1
• PHP: 8.2.12
• Server: Apache/2.4.58 (Win64) OpenSSL/3.1.3 PHP/8.2.12
• Database: mysqli (Server: 10.4.32-MariaDB / Client: mysqlnd 8.2.12)
• Browser: Chrome 144.0.0.0
• OS: Windows 10/11
• Theme: Twenty Twenty-Five 1.4
• MU Plugins: None activated
• Plugins:
  • Test Reports 1.2.1

Steps taken

1. Add a second site to your network.
2. Head over to the second site themes page.
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the themes page.
4. ❌ Bug is not occurring

Expected behavior

• All the themes and their thumbnails are loaded while the user scrolls down all the way to the bottom.

Additional Notes

• Ensure you have a multisite setup, with 329+ themes that are network-enabled.
• The browser doesn't crash.
• This ticket is quite old, and the issue might have been addressed by recent WordPress versions.
• Updating the keywords, removing needs-testing and adding close.

Screenshots/Screencast with results

• ​https://files.catbox.moe/bf4d8d.webm

Support Content

• None