[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37974: Add multi-panel feature to pages through add_theme_support

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#37974: Add multi-panel feature to pages through add_theme_support
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 Reporter:  karmatosed      |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  4.7
Component:  Themes          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback     |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 @NateWr I believe that the concept of "content blocks" that we want to
 avoid for now deals with "blocks" within a post's content, such as
 headings, text, images, etc. as "blocks". Assembling existing site
 content, perhaps with adjustments to override parts of it in the assembled
 area, does seem doable for 4.7 (your option 2.). The types of sites that
 I'm thinking this feature would be most useful for would use it that way.

 If we end up with something that lets you add content pieces and reorder
 them in the customizer, we'll want to use the UI pattern that widgets and
 menus follow. Revisiting that, I do think that if we go the content-
 assembly direction, using menus directly makes sense in a lot of ways.
 It's basically a fancy menu that pulls in images and actual content, but
 ultimately serves as an index, or menu, that links off to various parts of
 a site. I could make a more realistic prototype of how that might work for
 Twenty Seventeen once the design is complete, and in the meantime we
 should continue exploring other options to compare that to.

 We still need to work on defining exactly what use cases we want to
 accommodate here. For more static content, what are some reasons that
 multi-part content needs to be in separate "objects" instead of being
 managed within a single editor instance?

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