GSoC Menu Customizer Revised Schedule/Scope

Previously: GSoC Project Proposal: WordPress Menu Customizer. Week 1 – 5/19: Introduce the ability to view all existing menus as customizer sections with menu items as customizer controls. Week 2 – 5/26: Add the ability to edit menus (change labels, attributes, re-order items), including a temporary solution that includes the screen options found on the existing menus screen. Run user tests on…

GSoC Project Proposal: WordPress Menu Customizer

Please note that this post only contains the Project Description and Schedule of Deliverables sections, as they are the most relevant to public discussion. Project Description Describe your idea in detail: WordPress 3.9 introduces the Widget Customizer: a better way to edit widgets. This is a major step in the process of migrating every component of WordPress’ Appearance menu to…

WordPress 3.8 Is Going to be Awesome

WordPress 3.8 development is heating up, with huge developments in the last few days. MP6, the now-infamous visual redesign of WordPress, DASH, a much-needed refresh of that Dashboard screen that we all habitually ignore, THX, a gorgeous new theme-browsing experience, and many smaller components have been merged into WordPress trunk, the development branch, after being developed as plugins first. And…