Apologies for the late update – helps if you actually publish the post! 🙂 We were in #wordpress-ui due to a little scheduling conflict A conflict occurs when a patch changes code that was modified after the patch was created. These patches are considered stale, and will require a refresh of the changes before it can be applied, or the conflicts will need to be resolved. – we’ll hopefully be back in #wordpress-dev next week, and are sorry for any confusion.
Discussion point 1: format switcher, with an example from @lessbloat: http://f.cl.ly/items/1t09071U2v1E2x2s3X2i/post-formats.png (we would use “Standard” as opposed to “Text” for that label). We will not be blocking the current behavior/ability to just start writing a post when you enter the add new screen, i.e. no forced selection of a post format before you can start writing. There is some concern about user confusion in that one might think that you can/should specify data for multiple formats in a single post if the switcher is always viewable. A viable idea seems to be that all formats are shown when you load the add new post page, which then collapse into one item (the selected one) upon a specific selection. Editing an existing post, including drafts, will only show the one format selected. Clicking on the selected format would allow for switching of the format via a to-be-determined interaction. There’s also the idea that a screen option would be provided to turn off the switcher entirely should the user so desire, just as the “Format” metabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way. can be turned off now.
Action: Call for icons, one per post format. No dimensions determined yet; keep in mind that 2x versions will be needed.
Discussion point 2: data structure needs, based on this really great start on wireframes by @melchoyce: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/01/22/post-formats-ui-update-121/#comment-7674. Proposed:
- Media URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org/embed code/shortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. (basically, text), to be shared between audio and video
- Link URL, to be shared between link and image
- Quote content
- Quote source
- Gallery, which would be a shortcode that likely needs to default to [gallery] for backcompat; would use shortcode with list of IDs for new style
- Image, which could be an attachment ID or URL (this is separate from featured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts.)
Sharing data fields (storage TBD, likely post meta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.) would mean that switching between formats that are similar in data needs would retain that field. Action: discuss proposed data structure in comments; pros/cons of sharing fields between formats, anything missed, etc. Also discuss anything related to the wireframes; @melchoyce was working on some discussed tweaks (although she may be understandably behind due to computer theft 🙁 ), and there will likely be more that we’ll want to do.
Finally, as a tightly-related item, @wonderboymusic started work on the possibility of an HTML5 audio/video player in core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.: #23282. Testing and feedback more than welcome.
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