[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37974: Add multi-panel feature to pages through add_theme_support

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#37974: Add multi-panel feature to pages through add_theme_support
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 Reporter:  karmatosed      |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.7
Component:  Themes          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback     |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 With these story boards, I think we're starting to focus in on more of an
 "assembly" flow of gathering distinct pieces of content and organizing
 them into a particular presentation on a page. Similar to a "featured
 content" workflow, but having specific editorial control of what's
 featured and in what order.

 The customize flows feel better because at the conceptual level, all of
 the flows add content and show them in a list, so having them shown as
 they'll display on the site, contextually in the live preview is the most
 compelling approach.

 Exploring the content assembly direction, as someone who uses sites with
 custom post types frequently, there is incredible value in being able to
 compile different types of content, assembling them into a unified page.
 Looking at a couple of examples of real sites that have "multi-content"
 pages, we can start to see how this might map to possible implementations:
 - http://kpff.com/ - this does not use WordPress, but if it did, and
 making some assumptions about how that'd be structured, it features a few
 "pages" (via the slider), projects, services, locations (custom post
 types?); career opportunities could be content that only exists here and
 links externally, and news.
 - http://annenbergdl.org/ - the homepage contains "bands" of posts
 (various types), with each band containing a taxonomy term (from different
 taxonomies). These can be reordered, added/deleted, etc. The
 implementation currently uses a custom nav menu walker and menus in the
 customizer.
 - http://music.usc.edu/, http://dramaticarts.usc.edu/ - also not sure how
 these are actually managed, but they're pulling in things like events,
 news, and spotlights, which could be different categories of posts (or
 post types), videos (post format?). Assembling different types of content
 that is existing and can be easily updated over time.

 For all of those examples, a lot of the content actually pulls in multiple
 distinct "posts", either in an unstructured way or via something like
 terms, while other pieces are distinct (representing a single page),
 sometimes linking to more and in other cases representing the whole
 content inline. If we can find a good way to support all of that, that
 would be great, but limitations will come into pay as we explore specific
 implementations. I'd be interested in seeing other examples of multi-part
 pages and how they might be managed via this sort of feature.

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