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Zooming in and out of style management in WordPress
As you may know, the “Global Styles” feature is coming to WordPress, and will enable users to control a variety of visual design options from their Dashboard. I’ve been exploring what folks might see if they were to access this feature from the Appearance menu. It’s a tricky problem to solve because users need intuitive…
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Modes in the site editor
Site editor tasks typically vary from post editor tasks. Instead of the freeform writing that occurs when one is drafting a post, it more likely to find yourself traversing different areas and different layers of the document when making adjustments to a template. Over the last few weeks we’ve been experimenting with ways to make…
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Configuring home page settings in the editor
Today I shared an exploration on how we might enable users to configure the home / posts page settings while editing a page. It was a long one, so for the full details I refer you to the comment on github. In short, the complexities associated with these simple-looking settings are quite vast. The home…
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Zooming in and out of templates
In recent design work around site editing concepts such as isolated template part editing and the template mosaic view this idea of exposing the surface behind the canvas has come up: It’s a simple but powerful idea that enables us to build on this concept of zooming in and out of different editor views. Here’s an exploration…
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Try the WordPress navigation of tomorrow, today
Since 2018 I’ve been pushing to design and implement a new navigation system that scales in the WooCommerce Admin project. It seemed important to me that for the project to be a success it would have to be a core-first initiative, at least at a grass-roots level initially. I’ve worked through various iterations (some of…
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