Next Shortcake (Shortcode UI) discussion: Monday, March 2nd

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What: Let’s chat about Shortcake (ShortcodeShortcode 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. UIUI User interface), a proposed feature plugin that’s currently midway through its development cycle.
Why: Shortcake is nearing a v0.2.0 release (see all issues). We’d like to discuss where it’s at, and where we want to go with it in the future.
Where: #coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. channel on Slack
When: March 2, 2015 22:00 UTC
Who: Shortcode aficionados. See you there!

#shortcode-ui, #shortcodes

Matthew Haines-Young 12:50 am on March 3, 2015
Notes from shortcodeShortcode 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. UIUI User interface meeting.

Attendees: @mattheu, @danielbachhuber, @kaiser, @brashrebel, @paaljoachim, @pbearne

Chat Logs: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core/p1425333778000816

Progress since last meeting has been good and we’re nearing a 2.0 release – mostly behind the scenes stuff – but everything is a bit simpler and more robust 😉

Looking forward
- UXUX User experience/UI Review.
  - How should this UI fit into the editor experience? Should it be part of the media modal, part of the editor toolbar, separate, or perhaps replace/augment the media modal entirely?
  - Action item – I’ll put together some wireframes. Would be good to get some feedback from this.
  - Consideration – there work in progress on the UI of the media modal. @drew found #29989
- Better define end goals of project. Is it more about shortcodes, or more about content blocks.
  - My opinion and initial motivation for this – definitely more about content blocks – shortcodes were just a simple way to achieve this.
  - Content blocks – might be good to get some feedback from those involved in this project.
- What can we actually do to improve shortcodes in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..
  - Require registration of a shortcode?
    
    Standardization
    
    Documentation & discoverability becomes easier.
    
    Allow for cleanup of old shortcodes?
    
    Aesop allows you to convert to HTML.
- Long term – inline editing
  - Some experiments with editable fields inside a sandboxed preview in the MCE editor indicate this could be achievable.
  - Would be good to do mockups/wireframes
  - But inline editing would take a fair bit of custom UI work to implement for each module.
  - If supporting only this was the goal – I think theres a lot of the current functionality that wouldn’t be needed
Thanks for attending. Next meeting Monday 23rd March @ 22:00 UTC.

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