[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:  helen
     Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  assigned
 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 philiparthurmoore):

 Replying to [comment:18 obenland]:

 > There is a possibility that sites with menu items that were created
 between 3.0 and 3.1 have those old descriptions show up, when they switch
 to a theme that has `show_descriptions` enabled.

 This happened on my site last week when I updated the site's active theme
 to use menu descriptions in the same manner that they are handled in
 Twenty Fifteen. I really wish I had recorded what happened, but a very
 large post content dump was output for the menu description on an old menu
 that I had created a while back. I had to manually erase them and enter
 new descriptions.

 Other than the above issue I am generally in large favor of this proposal.
 If the description field is available we should be able to make use of it
 in themes.

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