Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#39617 new enhancement
Improve the Dashboard Screen and Welcome dashboard widget
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Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.7.1 |
Component: | Administration | Keywords: | |
Focuses: | ui, administration | Cc: |
Description
Currently the welcome dashboard widget only offers a few options, it does not cover making sure that a new has added a site name, site description, set permalinks or made sure that a user has created their first page and post on the site.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Screen#Welcome
Giving users a better flow from the dashboard screen would help them get started on their site.
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Change History (14)
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #forums by hardeepasrani. View the logs.
8 years ago
#2
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8 years ago
You're asked to add a site title and description when installing WordPress, so don't think that needs to be there too. And for permalinks, it's more of a choice, so you don't need to change unless you want.
But yea, making a post is more important.
#3
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8 years ago
@hardeepasrani
The number of sites I have come across where a user has not changed the permalinks from default from ?p=123 to sample-post always surprises me.
#4
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8 years ago
WordPress already tries to enable pretty permalinks on install if possible, see #6481.
#6
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8 years ago
Hi all,
I'd like to contribute to this ticket, what is the expected output?
I've a couple of ideas I'd like to test, are PNG layout ok?
#8
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8 years ago
I made 2 quick sketches:
- this is built on actual layout https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/39617/Schermata%202017-02-05%20alle%2017.16.49.png
- this is a redesign, I tried to give a bit of warmth with a background https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/39617/wp%20dashboard.png.001.png (the image is from pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/coffee-writing-computer-blogging-34658/ )
My insights:
- the widget has to take the screen height to limit visible elements and focus just on essential actions
- split actions in 3 categories
- tell user which one is the current theme and how to change it
#10
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8 years ago
welcome-panel seems like where in core it is defined.
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=welcome-panel&type=
Welcome Widget