[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29890: Make menu descriptions available to be displayed on the front-end

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#29890: Make menu descriptions available to be displayed on the front-end
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 Reporter:  obenland                  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  4.1
Component:  Menus                     |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch twenty-fifteen  |     Focuses:  template
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Comment (by helen):

 I talked myself and obenland in circles in SF on this - basically, I think
 there's an issue of doing this on display as opposed to on registration. I
 think registration still makes sense - a menu location's design can
 support showing a description. There's no great way for a user to do
 anything about their menu descriptions even when they use the customizer
 to pre-flight the theme switch - if this is set on registration, perhaps
 we could allow the user to decide whether or not to show descriptions for
 that menu location.

 Even on registration, since individual menus are decoupled from display
 areas (which are what get registered), we can't really make a smart
 decision about showing the description field when editing a menu. I think
 this may not be a big deal, since suddenly showing those old pre-populated
 descriptions on a theme change is an existing problem, but it kind of
 stinks. Perhaps a pointer is still warranted either way.

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