#49487 closed enhancement (fixed)
Remove the "Featured" tab in the Add Themes screen
Reported by: | kjellr | Owned by: | poena |
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Milestone: | 5.8 | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Themes | Keywords: | has-patch needs-codex |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Followup to 5044 (Meta) / 9522 (Commit)
The "Featured" tab of the theme repository is the first page that users visit when looking for themes. As such, it should ideally present them with the best of the best WordPress themes. Instead, the featured list is just randomly generated. This does not quite fulfill the screen's purpose.
There have been discussions around replacing this with some sort of actual curated list, or an algorithmically chosen set based on how new and popular a theme is (as proposed in 3750 (Meta) for example).
Until consensus arrives on an approach for that, we should disable the featured tab.
As noted above, this the Meta ticket for this has already been completed, and this change just needs to be carried through to the Add Themes page.
Change History (10)
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #themereview by kjell. View the logs.
5 years ago
This ticket was mentioned in PR #1219 on WordPress/wordpress-develop by carolinan.
4 years ago
#5
- Keywords has-patch added; needs-patch removed
Removes the link to the featured tab on the Add themes screen.
Sets the popular tab as the default.
Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49487
(The changes in this PR needs to be built befor testing)
The theme browser in the customizer prototypes an alternative interface that prioritizes filtering and search over the older tabbed approach, defaulting to latest themes. The featured, popular, latest, and favorites tabs do not exist on the premise that they don't actually help users. I don't know if any stats are available to validate that this approach is better, but it's been in core since WordPress 4.9.
Rather than only removing the featured tab I proposed syncing the customizer interface into wp-admin, or even merging these into the single newer interface in the customizer. The customizer integrates theme browsing into the live preview workflow more seamlessly than wp-admin, using live site previews instead of the .org preview.