[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36474: Revamp meta boxes
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#36474: Revamp meta boxes
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Reporter: iseulde | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Editor | Version:
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Focuses: ui
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Comment (by folletto):
> Separating out the menu of sections (navigation, the top level
headings), and then sliding in to each section of UI control keeps the
user experience consistent because things are where you would expect them
to be with a clear separation of navigation and content. @folletto can
speak more to the reasoning behind it.
Correct. It was both a consolidation of different patterns as well as an
improvement on the existing ones.
I personally would go in the direction started with @michaelarestad's and
@iseulde's mockups.
One of the assumptions I'm making here is that different sites AND
different people will have a preferred view, or in other words, a
preferred sidebar configuration. For example one of the sites I author
uses a good category structure, while another has none. One uses featured
images, the other doesn't.
Based on this assumption, the folding blocks behaviour would allow a very
intuitive way to tailor for this diversity with very little overhead,
simply by saving the "latest" configuration the user was working in. This,
paired with plugins that will allow user to "save" a specific
configuration if they prefer having always the same (not saving the
latest) and even site-wide defaults (for more editorial sites that enforce
specific workflows) I feel would be an ideal balance between simplicity
and flexibility.
Also +100 at keeping the sidebar independently scrollable. I think that's
another '''major''' improvement.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36474#comment:20>
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