Opened 2 months ago
Closed 2 months ago
#63326 closed defect (bug) (reported-upstream)
Edit Site no longer directly opens Template editing
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 6.8 |
| Component: | General | Keywords: | |
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Description
ISSUE:
When viewing a post, page or archive, clicking "Edit Site" in the Admin bar used to open the related Template directly, ready for editing.
RESULT:
In 6.8, the above click of "Edit Site" just opens the first page of "Appearance -> Editor"
WHY IT'S AN ISSUE:
What could be accomplished in 1 click prior to 6.8 now takes 5 clicks and some scrolling!
Try to comprehend this:
1 click replaced with:
- Click Edit Site
- Click Templates
- Scroll to find the template you wanted to edit (good luck if you have many of them and forgot which one was attached to the post you started from!)
- Click the 3 dots button next to the correct template
- Select "Edit" from the menu
I'm sorry to be hyperbolic, but this is insanity!
Change History (1)
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Hi @LilGames This is not a bug but a deliberate change. The change was made because many users found it too confusing that the link opened different screens, and they got lost.
It was not clear enough that the intention was to open the template, and many users were not confident in what the difference between a page and template is.
In this case, it is only a matter of one type of user needing one thing, and other users needing something else. Its not insanity. Its a need to cater for a different type of user than you and me.
There are plans to change it to a dropdown with more links, but nobody has volunteered to start working on these code changes yet.
The changes are managed in this Gutenberg issue, so I am closing this ticket as reported upstream. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63785