[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37661: A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes in the Customizer

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#37661: A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes in the
Customizer
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 Reporter:  celloexpressions         |       Owner:  westonruter
     Type:  feature request          |      Status:  reviewing
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  4.9
Component:  Customize                |     Version:  4.2
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-           |     Focuses:  ui, accessibility,
  screenshots has-user-testing has-  |  javascript
  ux-feedback commit                 |
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Changes (by celloexpressions):

 * owner:  celloexpressions => westonruter
 * status:  assigned => reviewing


Comment:

 [attachment:37661.10.diff] contains a refresh to fix the merge conflicts
 and contains the following additional changes:
 - Update @since to 4.9.0.
 - Remove @access from docblocks.
 - Other minor inline documentation adjustments.
 - Fix child theme notification display in long descriptions.
 - Improve logic for displaying downloading/setting up text

 Once this is back in trunk, I would like to propose a few potential
 changes that should be discussed in distinct tickets for visibility and
 coordinated with the appropriate stakeholders. These changes could each be
 either isolated to the customizer or also applied in wp-admin as
 applicable depending on stakeholder feedback. These would not likely be
 blockers for release, and they should not be hidden within the extensive
 previous documentation contained here to date, so it's best to discuss as
 separate issues as soon as we can do that. For future reference:
 - Consider removing the "favorites" functionality (coordinate usage stats
 with meta for final decision).
 - Consider removing the (randomized) "featured" section in favor of more
 usable searching and filtering (requires discussion with theme review team
 or divergence from other .org theme browsers).
 - Consider adjusting the theme tags exposed to users in core for improved
 usability ad discoverability (temporarily, to be re-synced with
 wordpress.org once the theme team updates them).
 - Consider reworking the distinct "latest" and "popular" sections to act
 as sort orders for the search and feature filter sections rather than
 standalone views (to improve usability and emphasize search and filtering;
 note that the .org API supports this already). I would consider
 implementing this prior to merge if anyone thinks that this work is a
 blocker for release (I know this is something @folletto was thinking about
 with the way the navigation is displayed as filters). However, this change
 would be most effective in conjunction with the above suggestions that are
 dependent on external coordination, and can be implemented relatively
 easily when we're ready.

 @westonruter feel free to sync this back to the GitHub branch if that'll
 help stimulate testing (I was not able to get it working).

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37661#comment:166>
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