Manage Widgets and Menus "with Live Preview"

[celloexpressions]

The old widgets and menus screens in the admin feature "Manage in Customizer" links to encourage users to try the more updated versions of the features with live preview in the customizer. Unfortunately, this wording doesn't provide much of a description of what advantages these interfaces have, especially for users who don't know about or fully understand the scope of the customizer.

If these links were changed to read "Manage with Live Preview", they would do a better job encouraging users to try the customizer versions of widgets and menus, by explicitly mentioning the live preview aspect that is the biggest differentiator between the different interfaces.

This is a great first ticket for a new contributor to create a patch for, although I can make a patch for 4.6 if no one is able to get to it at WCEU contributor day.

[DrewAPicture]

I like the idea behind improving this microcopy in some way, though I have some reservations about "with Live Preview". I think moving to "Manage with Live Preview" might actually introduce more confusion, not less.

Currently the only place where "Live Preview" is referenced is in the theme previewer. Live previewing something and managing something in a live preview aren't contextually the same, so we should be careful about conflating the two.

[lukecavanagh]

Since most users would still be creating menu's and adding widgets from

Appearance > Menus
Appearance > Widgets

[celloexpressions]

"Customizer" as a noun is not generally used in core; instead, the verb form is preferred. The key is that widgets or menus can be managed with live preview, not in live preview. Therefore, "Manage with Live Preview" explains that this offers the ability to manage widgets/menus alongside a live preview as opposed to the admin pages that have management but no preview. For users who don't know what the "Customizer" is or don't make the connection with the "customize" terminology used elsewhere in core, the current text is essentially meaningless.

In core, "Live Preview" is used for themes (in the admin and the customizer), and "preview" is used in the customizer help text. Outside of core text, we've been using "live preview" since widgets were first introduced in the customizer, with the "live" aspect differentiating between static previews such as the ability to preview posts. Live previewing a theme and managing/live previewing menus/widgets are different contexts, but I don't see there being confusion there as the live preview terminology becomes used more extensively in core.

@lukecavanagh the links in question are on those pages, in the admin.

[patilswapnilv]

patch for ticket #37159

[patilswapnilv]

Hey @celloexpressions,

I uploaded a patch for this.

Actually, this has happened to me earlier. I saw someone getting confused with "Manage in Customizer".

Thanks for pointing this out.

Also, This is my first patch to the core, so let me know if I may have done something wrong.

[adamsilverstein]

@patilswapnilv This looks good, some screenshots before/after would be helpful to visually document the change.

[noahsilverstein]

Menu screenshot before patch

[noahsilverstein]

Menu screenshot after patch

[noahsilverstein]

Widgets screenshot after patch

[adamsilverstein]

@noahsilverstein Thanks! looks good to me :)

[patilswapnilv]

@noahsilverstein Thanks for the screenshots.

[rachelbaker]

In 37904:

Customize: Text change on Widgets and Menus screens for buttons directing users to the Customizer.

"Manage in Customizer" -> "Manage with Live Preview".

Props patilswapnilv and noahsilverstein.
Fixes #37159.