We decide for you #WordPress #rantĪt this juncture, no official timeline has been set for removing the menus screen in the WordPress admin. Those who were not in favor of the feature voiced their opposition in comments on the original proposal and in independent blogs around the web but were ultimately overruled.ĭecisions not options: duplicate the interfaces, bringing complex things into little panels & containers. It will be interesting to see how it plays out when users discover it in 4.3. The Menu Customizer is one of the most controversial new features added to core in WordPress’ recent history. Note that this is intended to compare the experience for power users. I ran into a few areas where the experience could be improved, but in terms of timing, the Customizer version wins in most of these scenarios currently. Halsey’s overall conclusion was that managing menus in the customizer takes less time in most cases than managing menus in the admin:įor the tests, I added links to both Menus UIs to the admin bar (4.3 will have one link here, to the Customizer). Ryan Boren and Konstantin Obenland also published iPhone 5 and 6 emulations of the plugin in action. Nick Halsey, the plugin’s developer, published a number of UX flow and performance comparisons of the admin menus screen vs.

Following an overwhelming amount of negative feedback from the community, core contributors published what was essentially a rallying call to get the plugin ready for merge, reaffirming their commitment to iterating with the customizer. Roughly a week ago the feature plugin was tentatively approved for merge, pending an a11y audit and PHP and JS tests. The Menu Customizer plugin was merged into WordPress trunk today and will be one of the headline features of the 4.3 release.

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