[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34923: Introduce basic page/post authorship in the Customizer

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#34923: Introduce basic page/post authorship in the Customizer
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 Reporter:  westonruter  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  4.5
Component:  Customize    |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:  needs-patch
  Focuses:  javascript   |
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 Upon first installing WordPress, new users may find themselves in the
 Customizer to set up their site, given the bug blue Customizer button on
 the Dashboard. The new user experience (NUX) is one area highlighted in
 the [https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/23/outlining-a-possible-
 roadmap-for-the-customizer/ roadmap]. One thing that has been discussed is
 that the number of things the user can do in the Customizer is largely a
 subset of what they can do in the WP admin. Most notably, one of the first
 things that a user would likely want to do is add pages to their site. I
 understand that new users to WordPress do not understand the nav menu item
 vs page distinction, and in the Customizer I am guessing that many users
 would expect to be able to add nav menu items for all of the pages they
 want to be on their site, whether they exist yet or not. This is not
 currently possible in the Customizer, meaning that users would have to
 exit the Customizer to create the pages and then come back into the
 Customizer to then create the nav menu items. This is a poor experience.

 So I propose that the UI for selecting an item to add a nav menu item for
 be extended with a button to add a new instance of the item type right
 there in the Customizer. If wanting to add a new page, then an editor
 overlay can appear over the preview which allows the user to supply the
 standard post/page fields such as the title and content via a TinyMCE
 editor (also allowing the setting of the featured image and page template
 would be useful, since these cannot be previewed via Post Preview either).
 This could serve as a first step toward a full post editor experience in
 the Customizer in a UI similar to Calypso on WordPress.com, but starting
 with just the title and content we can get our feet wet. Perhaps we could
 even fully re-use the post editor in Calypso. Note that I am not
 suggesting to add a post editor to the Customizer pane, due to lack of
 space.

 If adding a page in the Customizer via a nav menu item, it could also
 default the `post_parent` and `menu_order` to correspond to the location
 of the nav menu item when possible so that the page hierarchy could
 roughly correspond to the nav menu item hierarchy.

 (To be clear, being in the Customizer, all manipulation of post/page
 content would be previewed: no changes would be written to the DB until
 hitting Save & Publish.)

 The same editor interface could also be used to edit existing posts and
 pages. There could also be a top-level panel for “Content” with sections
 for “Posts” and “Pages” which would allow editing any post/page that
 currently appears in the preview. The [https://wordpress.org/plugins
 /customize-posts/ Customize Posts] feature plugin has been developed which
 implements a proof of concept for this.

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