[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #51938: Twenty Twenty-One shows top level category descriptions in menus

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#51938: Twenty Twenty-One shows top level category descriptions in menus
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 Reporter:  andraganescu   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                 |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by ryelle):

 I think part of the reason this is unexpected is that by default, the menu
 item's description field is hidden. So when you add a category to the
 menu, it autofills the category description into the menu item's
 description, but you don't see that in the menu screen. Ironically, it
 doesn't do that in the customizer, where it would be obvious.

 You can change the menu description from the menu UI without changing the
 category description, so it can have a shorter description (or none) in
 the menu, while keeping the longer text on the category archive. I don't
 know that there's much to fix here, maybe a note
 [https://wordpress.org/support/article/twenty-twenty-one/#menus in the
 docs] that the menus use descriptions & how to see them would help.

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