Tag: menu customizer

  • New Plugin Removes All Traces of the Customizer in WordPress

    New Plugin Removes All Traces of the Customizer in WordPress

    Anti-customizer vitriol reached its zenith last week when the Menu Customizer plugin was officially approved for merge into WordPress 4.3. Opponents of the feature voiced concerns about the readiness of the UI for all screen sizes, particularly for the desktop where many find the experience of managing menus to be crammed into an unnecessarily narrow…

  • Menu Customizer Officially Approved for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

    Menu Customizer Officially Approved for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

    The Menu Customizer plugin was merged into WordPress trunk today and will be one of the headline features of the 4.3 release. Roughly a week ago the feature plugin was tentatively approved for merge, pending an a11y audit and PHP and JS tests. Following an overwhelming amount of negative feedback from the community, core contributors…

  • WPWeekly Episode 195 – Recap of WordCamp Orange County 2015

    WPWeekly Episode 195 – Recap of WordCamp Orange County 2015

    In this episode, Marcus Couch and I recap WordCamp Orange County 2015 held in Costa Mesa, CA. We share our favorite sessions, highlights of the weekend, and I explain why I spent day two of the conference in my hotel room. During the second half of the show, we cover the news of the week,…

  • WordPress Core Contributors Call for User Testing on the Menu Customizer Plugin

    WordPress Core Contributors Call for User Testing on the Menu Customizer Plugin

    Ryan Boren published a post to the Make/WordPress Core blog this afternoon, titled Trust, Live Preview, and Menus in the Customizer. In it he clarified the reasons why he and several other core contributors are committed to iterating the customizer and identified the feature as a means of building user trust through live previews. Being…

  • Menu Customizer Tentatively Approved for WordPress 4.3

    Menu Customizer Tentatively Approved for WordPress 4.3

    WordPress 4.3 release lead Konstantin Obenland posted notes from this week’s core development chat, confirming that the Menu Customizer plugin has been conditionally approved to merge. The approval is pending a few conditions that will be required before officially merging it: Complete a11y audit. Address possible blockers. Merge php tests. Add JS tests. One of…

  • Menu Customizer Officially Proposed for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

    Menu Customizer Officially Proposed for Merge Into WordPress 4.3

    Contributors on the Menu Customizer feature plugin are proposing its inclusion in WordPress 4.3. Nick Halsey posted the Customizer Team’s proposal last night, beginning with a summary of the purpose of moving menu management into the customizer: In the process, we hope to offer an updated design with improved user flow, a mobile-first interface, improved…

  • Menu Customizer Now in Development for WordPress 4.2

    Menu Customizer Now in Development for WordPress 4.2

    WordPress 4.1 was released just yesterday, but core contributors are already planning and working towards 4.2. The Menu Customizer feature plugin is back in development and contributors are hoping to have it ready for inclusion in 4.2. Nick Halsey, who originally started the Menu Customizer work as part of his Google Summer of Code project,…