WP: Stop adding junk to the Preview Panel, Please!

  • tradesouthwest

    (@tradesouthwestgmailcom)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Campaign to return Preview Panel to its original intent.

    Below is part of a comment I sent back to a reviewer about making the preview bar more simple and stop added stuff to it which makes development cumbersome.
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    Once a developer builds a function he or she expects that function to operate as it was written to function, and not to be segregated and dispersed amongst WP’s willy-nilly options schema of which may completely screw up the developers design framework just to attempt to make the CMS more user-friendly.

    Quite honestly, the new additions to the preview panel are not needed and are not UI/UX in design. they may confuse the end user more when they move between option panel (Admin to Preview) and the whole idea of the preview panel is to preview the bare essentials of a theme, not to create more work for designers and more confusion for end users.

    What is next: you are going to remove the Admin Panel altogether and put EVERYTHING into the Preview/Customize panel ( I dont even know what to call it any more. It used to be the Preview panel now it is obese with “stuff.”)

    The widgets are in the widget options of the admin panel – not in the newly added odd-ball oversized and cumbersome Preview panel.

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  • Thread Starter tradesouthwest

    (@tradesouthwestgmailcom)

    And here is the original Theme review comment which starts this thread campaign:

    Reviewer-
    Header text color under colors options in customize does not work. It is used to change the color of site title but does not work as intended.
    Me-
    There is no function for header text color as I believe WP has defaulted to this some how because I did not setup any functions for text color.
    This is all the function is: `add_theme_support( ‘custom-header’ );
    $args = array(
    ‘width’ => 500,
    ‘height’ => 260,
    ‘uploads’ => true,
    );
    add_theme_support( ‘custom-header’, $args );`
    Please let me know where I can change the customize option so that WP does not ask customize to display this option, Header Text color.

    Reviwer-
    To remove header color options you can use following function

    // Remove text color option from header options
            define( 'NO_HEADER_TEXT', true );

    This function removes header text and header color options from both header and customize menu. Header color, Header image, Background color, Background image options under customize menu are all result of function that we write for header and background. So we have to fix this as well.

    Emphasis has to be added to: So we have to fix this as well.

    And here is the part I preluded my response with about his above “FIX” for the Header Text Color Option:
    Me-
    As for the Header Text Color snafu, I believe WP should just leave the Customize preview panel alone!!! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. You have added Widget controls and individual Header, Background, Colors all separated from their ORIGINAL INTENT which was for these options to be on the admin panel within the appropriate Control function that it was assigned to in the child controller, “functions.php.”

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