4.3 About page

[helen]

Tracking ticket for this usual pre-release task.

Don't forget to sync changes over to credits.php and freedoms.php. :)

[obenland]

I chatted with a few contributors at WordCamp Europe about the About page. Someone had the idea (markjaquith possibly?) to not do one headline feature, but rather have a randomized grid of four features that we'd show. I really like that, it would spice things up a bit.

It would also be good to do a release video again. Something in the style of ​3.6 maybe, yet still with a voiceover.

[celloexpressions]

@designsimply put together a really good video on menus in the Customizer in the merge proposal post; we may be able to reuse some ideas from there: ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/06/03/feature-plugin-merge-proposal-menu-customizer/.

[obenland]

In 33466:

About: First pass at WordPress 4.3 About page.

Still missing images and some string revisions.

See #32929.

[obenland]

In 33467:

About: Remove translation functions until strings are final.

See #32929.

[ryelle]

32929.2.diff​ adds the visuals & cleans up some related CSS. The images & video still need to be moved over to the w.org CDN, but they can be downloaded from the URLs in the patch.

[obenland]

In 33498:

About: Second pass at 4.3 about page.

Adds images and videos for major and minor features.
Restores a mangled placeholder in Formatting Shortcuts description.

Assets still need to be moved to the .org CDN once deemed final.

Props ryelle, melchoyce, helen.
See #32929.

[obenland]

The only two things left over here are a string review from @nacin (note adamsilverstein's suggestions) and png images from @ryelle/@melchoyce. It would be nice to have that finished in RC2.

[melchoyce]

Uploaded the screenshots as pngs (pre-compressed using imageoptim). Checked with @helen and it sounds like the icons are fine as SVGs. Let me know if there's anything I'm missing. :)

[obenland]

Patch adds dotorg CDN links.

[melchoyce]

If you have Jetpack installed, the class .jetpack-video-wrapper is applied, which adds extra margin to the bottom of the video, which makes the box size uneven. 32929.5.diff​ should overwrite that margin — but I'm having some sandbox issues, so it'd be great if someone could confirm.

[georgestephanis]

This sounds like something that is ideally better fixed in Jetpack, not in Core to accommodate Jetpack.

[melchoyce]

32929.6.diff​ fixes a missing .

[valendesigns]

I have Jetpack active but don't see that class being added. Do I need to activate a certain module? I agree we should fix it upstream, but I doubt there's time.

[georgestephanis]

I think it's based on theme support.

[valendesigns]

Thanks @georgestephanis and @melchoyce yes the patch does fix it.

[obenland]

Replying to georgestephanis:

I think it's based on theme support.

Is there a reason to not restrict it to the front-end?

[ocean90]

WP_List_Table

[obenland]

For the tagline, how about

Thank you for updating! WordPress 4.3 brings you a smoother writing and customization experience.

[mrahmadawais]

Replying to obenland:

For the tagline, how about

Thank you for updating! WordPress 4.3 brings you a smoother writing and customization experience.

Or maybe

Thank you for updating! WordPress 4.3 brings you a smoother writing, more customizable and refined responsive admin experience.

[morganestes]

Based on the discussion in Slack today, I like "...easier and faster to create your site." for the opening line and "4.3 makes it even easier to format your content and customize your site" for the tag line. They're similar without being redundant, and puts the focus on content while still emphasizing site building.

[markjaquith]

• "4.3 makes it even easier to format your content and customize your site"
• Create your menu, update and assign it, all while live-previewing in the customizer. With every release, it becomes easier and faster to customize your site. The streamlined customizer design provides a mobile-first, accessibility-ready interface.

[obenland]

32929.8.diff​ combines the second part of 32929.diff​, 32929.3.diff​, 32929.7.diff​, and Marks suggestion in 25.

It also adds video handling so that only the ID has to be replaced once the new video is uploaded, and makes all strings translatable.

[helen]

The customizer bit is a little heavy on the usage of "customize", the first part is still clunky, and it's not "mobile-first" (whatever that even means). Perhaps:

Create your menu, update it, and assign it, all while live-previewing in the customizer. With every release, it becomes easier and faster to make your site just the way you want it. The streamlined customizer design provides a mobile-friendly, accessibility-ready interface.

Why is it "accessibility-ready" and not "accessible"?

[valendesigns]

I think it's to give context to the term. However, for end users the context is lost on them, unless they're aware of accessibility in the first place.

[obenland]

Replying to helen:

How about:

Create your menu, update it, and assign it, all while live-previewing in the customizer. With every release, it becomes easier and faster to make your site just the way you want it. The streamlined customizer design provides a mobile-friendly and accessible interface.

[obenland]

Updated patch with revised Menu Customizer text.

[helen]

32929.9.diff​ is looking good to me. I have one nitpick - the faux-bold of WP_List_Table that you get in some browsers looks like garbage, so we should specify a normal font-weight. I also wonder if it's worth a specific rule for that danged video margin that comes from Jetpack, given how widely it's installed.

[ocean90]

32929.9.diff​ looks good here too. It's also nice to see that subtitle support has been implemented into VideoPress. And the list is scrollable. \o/

[obenland]

32929.10.diff​ merges 32929.9.diff​ with 32929.6.diff​ and addresses the font-weight issue.

[obenland]

In 33613:

About: Third pass at 4.3 about page:

• Improves some of the feature descriptions.
• Uses .org CDN for images and feature video.
• Fixes an overzealous Jetpack style that adds unwanted padding.
• Uses more specific WP_List_Table header.
• Adds 4.3 tagline to freedoms and credit page.
• Adds infrastructure for 4.3 about video. Only the ID needs to be updated.
• Makes all strings translatable.

Props siobhan, adamsilverstein, melchoyce, ocean90, markjaquith, helen, obenland.
Fixes #32929.

[obenland]

In 33631:

About: Update release video to use the correct ID.

Also adjusts locale handling to work with Videopress' subtitle implementation.

Props siobhan, jacklenox, sararosso, hugobaeta, nickmomrik, rauchg.
See #32929.

[obenland]

In 33632:

About: Use actual locale and not subtitle debug cruft.

H/t dimadin.

See #32929.