[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 obenland):

 Replying to [comment:26 philiparthurmoore]:
 > For example, if I know that a user is on an old version of WordPress and
 has a ton of trimmed post content stored in his menu descriptions, I could
 modify that output via `nav_menu_description` from within the theme for
 front-end display.

 It's unfortunately not that easy, I'm afraid. We can't make assumptions
 based on the WordPress version. If a user has menu items that were created
 during that time, the description contains the post content, even today,
 even when their install is current, like in your case.

 Short of adding a user option to toggle the display of menu item
 descriptions, there is really not a whole lot we can do to mitigate the
 risk of running into a situation where they have long descriptions show
 up. The only comforting thought is, that it's only an issue with old menu
 items, it'll only show up on theme change, and it's something that users
 will probably catch when they preview their site with the new theme.

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