[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47012: Proposal: Simplify WordPress Admin Navigation

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#47012: Proposal: Simplify WordPress Admin Navigation
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 Reporter:  lessbloat                           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                              |   Milestone:  Awaiting
                                                |  Review
Component:  Administration                      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-design-feedback dev-feedback  |     Focuses:  ui,
                                                |  accessibility
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Comment (by DeFries):

 Replying to [comment:30 jameskoster]:
 > But with an eCommerce store, inventory management is generally secondary
 to other tasks like checking reports, fulfilling orders, moderating
 reviews, marketing the store etc, so it makes sense for those sections to
 have more prominence than "content management".

 As much as I love the meta menu, menus that bring together contextual
 navigation, I feel like we'd be going the wrong direction. If we were to
 say on the one hand, "hey let's group everything content together", and on
 the other hand were to go "but not with plugin X" (where plugin X stands
 for WooCommerce in this example), how are we actually solving the bring
 content together in the default menu if we're not, in fact, using the
 default.

 I mean, the way I see it, plugins like WooCommerce, BuddyPress, bbPress,
 event managers, job managers, etc, all revolve around having two things.
 Content and Settings/Workflows. I'd love to see us solve that specific
 problem, because the way I see it now, this proposal solves the original
 problem very nicely, but introduces a variant of the problem somewhere
 else.

 Don't get me wrong, I very much like the thought behind the meta menu, I
 think that's a winner. I just don't think we're solving everything we
 could be, ''should'' be solving by using the example as is.

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