[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47012: Proposal: Simplify WordPress Admin Navigation

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#47012: Proposal: Simplify WordPress Admin Navigation
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 Reporter:  lessbloat                           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                              |   Milestone:  Awaiting
                                                |  Review
Component:  Administration                      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-design-feedback dev-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui,
                                                |  accessibility
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Comment (by jipmoors):

 Today I mistook the WordPress sidebar for the Slack sidebar, which made me
 think the active admin menu item was a channel with unread notifications.

 This made me think about the things that I like and use in Slack a lot;
 namely **Starring channels or persons** - marking the things that I use a
 lot and have them listed together.

 When using my site I only have a couple of places that I visit regularly,
 and those don't always sit next to each other in the menu. This use-case
 is different for each user of the site and should be a user-configurable
 setting.

 I'm not sure that the scope of the current concept encapsulate this kind
 of feature; but I would really see this as a very useful addition. I think
 a strong UX pattern that is used here is that you can mark a certain
 context as important on the page/context itself.

 I would star/pin the "Add new page" - which I currently do by going to the
 overview and clicking "Add new" there; even though I know there are two
 optional methods of doing this which would only require one click (submenu
 and adminbar) - not even counting the widget on the dashboard.

 ''Additional thoughts''

 While looking at Slack this way, I was looking at the channel/person-bar.
 Such a bar, above every page could outline the type of the page, giving
 the option to "pin" it on the menu and providing information and
 (possibly) settings controls.

 We currently have something that comes a bit close to this on the Block
 Editor pages, but this is lacking the context of which kind of page you
 are creating/editing. Especially with the navigation-bar closed up; you
 have to remember which Icon represents which post-type.

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