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Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

#53523 new enhancement

Themes can't be bulk edited.

Reported by: nekojonez's profile NekoJonez Owned by:
Milestone: Awaiting Review Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Themes Keywords: has-screenshots
Focuses: ui, administration Cc:

Description

On the plugin screen, you have a nice list of every plugin with a handy checkbox to put them all on auto-update or delete them in bulk.
This isn't possible in on the themes page while both of these things would be kind of handy. Especially for dev sites.

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themes-grid-view.jpg (101.5 KB) - added by birgire 3 years ago.
Themes Grid view with toggle buttons
themes-list-view.jpg (101.3 KB) - added by birgire 3 years ago.
Themes List view with toggle buttons

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Change History (9)

#1 @SergeyBiryukov
3 years ago

  • Component changed from General to Themes

#2 @birgire
3 years ago

Yes agree, a new theme list table is what's missing to be able to delete/autoupdate themes in bulk.

I imagine similar buttons, just like on the Media admin page:

https://i.imgur.com/2nHbwce.jpeg

where one can switch between the current theme view and the theme list table.

@birgire
3 years ago

Themes Grid view with toggle buttons

@birgire
3 years ago

Themes List view with toggle buttons

#4 @birgire
3 years ago

  • Keywords has-screenshots added

The two screenshots are suggestions how to toggle between list/grid view for themes.

The list view could be more similar to WP_MS_Themes_List_Table that extends WP_List_Table than WP_Themes_List_Table.

The list view table would contain the ways to bulk edit the themes in a typical WordPress admin table way.

#5 @NekoJonez
3 years ago

That concept looks amazing. I think it would be awesome if that UI also has places where plugins can hook in like: https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-update-translations/

Since now, the plugin adds an additional button in the menu for only updating the theme strings.

#6 @birgire
3 years ago

Thanks @NekoJonez

If the list table approach is the way to go here, then the action links would most probably be filterable, via hook similar to theme_action_links see. e.g https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/theme_action_links/

#7 @birgire
3 years ago

Related ticket #51832 for bulk delete of themes

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