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Beyond the canvas – continued exploration in site management interfaces
Last month I shared some concepts where “global” site elements could be managed in a dedicated area of the UI. In this post I’m expanding and refining those ideas a bit in an effort to explore the broader viability. If global entities like styles, templates, and navigation menus can be edited in the Site Editor, […]
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Visual Revisions
Today I begun exploring ways to refine the contents of the template inspector for #36951 and stumbled across the idea of visual revisions. I’m thinking it might be neat to have a way to browse through past versions of a document in a more visual manner, similar to Figma. Since revisions are just stored HTML, […]
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Exploring a global UI region in the Site Editor
In addition to features like Reusable Blocks a number of other global concepts emerge in the Site Editor: Navigation management Template management Styles Site settings And yet we lack a centralised area in the UI in which to manage these things. Consequently there is a lack of clarity with regards to whether a setting is […]
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Site Editing iA concepts – Part 2
I shared some designs on make.wordpress.org/design that explore how we might bring some site editing features from Gutenberg to WordPress core for 5.9. Check it out.
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Is the writing is on the wall for the WordPress theme as we know it?
The essence of a WordPress theme is: layout (templates) + style = presentation. The template and global style editing features of the site editor are soon going to provide users with tools to create and manage these elements visually in their WordPress back-end. Community initiatives like the pattern directory present opportunities to enrich these features […]
James Koster
Adventures in WordPress product design
James Koster 