Joen A. 7:00 pm on October 11, 2013
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MP6 2.1

Been a while since last tagged release, but it’s not been quiet on the MP6 dev front. Major new items aside from a plethora of bugfixes include:

A bunch of new dashicons
A spiffy new widgets page by Shaun Andrews from his Widgets project
Improvements to customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings., color schemes, menus section and much more
New color scheme, Midnight!

You can also peruse the full changelog, and of course get the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party at the MP6 plugin page.

MP6 2.1 includes contributions from Till Krüss, Mel Choyce, Ben Dunkle, Kelly Dwan, Shaun Andrews, Payton Swick, Matt Thomas, Helen Hou-Sandi, Dave Whitley, Kate Whitley, and myself.

Big thanks to the contributors, bug reporters, testers, moral supporters and givers of ideas and suggestions! Keep it coming.

The next weekly open meeting in #wordpress-ui will be Monday, October 14 at 18:00 UTC.

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toscho 10:41 pm on October 11, 2013

When will the automatic update be rolled out? Reinstalling this pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party manually each time is not very convenient.
- Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 11:27 pm on October 11, 2013
  
  Huh? WP 3.7 auto updates itself, not plugins. And this pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party can be normal upgraded. Worked fine on 3.6 and 3.7 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process.
  - toscho 7:04 am on October 12, 2013
    
    Sorry for the confusion. What I meant: I never get an update indicator for MP6. Works fine for all other plugins, but not for MP6. I always have to delete and to reinstall it.
    - Justin Tadlock 1:18 am on October 17, 2013
      
      It was like that for a long time for me too. Then, one day it just started working. I have no idea why.
      - toscho 6:17 am on October 17, 2013
        
        Yesterday I got finally my first update notice for this pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Looks like it is fixed now. I just would like to know why it didn’t before.
      - Till Krüss 7:44 am on October 17, 2013
        
        Automatic updates are working since a couple of MP6 releases, 1.4 if I remember correctly, but you only see them if you WordPress version matches the version requirement of MP6’s readme.txt file.
- Till Krüss 1:22 am on October 12, 2013
  
  You can update to MP6 2.1 through your WordPress admin, no need to reinstall anymore. If you are referring to automatic background updates, you can enable them for MP6 using the `auto_upgrade_plugin` filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output..
addressee 5:38 pm on October 12, 2013

re: MP6 2.1 Appearance > Widgets

Liking the new icons and styling/behavior for this section of admin. It’s nice to see but seems perhaps a little incomplete

Overall, the Widgets page no longer has a description, leaving a user to guess what the Widgets page does.

The widgets location section (“widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user.-liquid-right”) could be improved with a hinting of the status of a widget location: If populated, indicate with a visible icon or shading. If empty, present the collapsed location as-is with no icon visible. The side-by-side presentation of widget locations unfortunately hinders presentation of the natural top-down precedence of the widget areas. The same hinting could also be used for the Inactive Widgets section.

Available Widgets no longer has a description, leaving a user to guess what the widget does, or a new widget to be left unexplained. A description could be hinted on hover or on mousedown (preferred) or selected optionally.

Available widgets are placed in a scrolling list, which is located inside a scrolling window. This is the styling that long-plagued the post-editor page, only to be ‘fixed’ with a full-screen editor option. Please don’t let the widgets page suffer the scroll-within-a-scroll problem. Also, if Inactive Widgets is collapsed, you’re left with a scrolling window above a large expanse of blank page.

The evolution of MP6 is interesting to follow.
Ulrich 1:32 pm on October 15, 2013

There is a slight issue with the admin bar on smaller screens. Some plugins and themes add links to the admin bar and as these links break the layout on smaller devices. RTL tester is a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party that adds a link if anyone want to test it. https://wordpress.org/plugins/rtl-tester/
- Joen Asmussen 7:27 pm on October 15, 2013
  
  Excellent point. I’ll take a look at that this week.
- Joen Asmussen 8:25 am on October 21, 2013
  
  Pushed a change to hide *all* third party toolbar items in responsive view.
  - toscho 8:29 am on October 21, 2013
    
    That’s dangerous. Some necessary debug tools would be inaccessible now: language switcher, screen info, error lists.
    - Joen Asmussen 8:36 am on October 21, 2013
      
      On smartphones, all 3rd party toolbar items are invisible, so they can’t break the toolbar as they have done so far. If you need to see the items for development or debugging purposes there’s an argument to be made that you’re working on a desktop anyway. You can expand the window to make the items available, click the items you need, then size the window small again.
      
      Could certainly be worth exploring putting all 3rd party items in an “overflow menu”. But for now, I believe this is a decent fix.
Looimaster 8:27 am on October 16, 2013

Just my two cents: customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. that changes its colors makes it difficult to be used with color pickers or jQuery UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. sliders and other custom sections. Do theme authors need to style it for each customizer skin? In my opinion Customizer should have plain white background at all times.
Justin Tadlock 1:27 am on October 17, 2013

Nice work. I’m loving the new Midnight theme and have switched all my sites to it.

The widgets screen is awesome too. I’m not sure I’m sold on the scrollbar for the “widgets” section of that screen though.

The customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. design is a nice touch. I did find one minor issue with the image uploader on the customizer. With three tabs (Upload New, Uploaded, and Default), the third tab drops down. It’d be nice if we could get at least that third one in line with the others. Check out the screenshot:
http://justintadlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mp6-three-image-tabs.png
Amado.Miami 4:31 pm on October 17, 2013

Definitely missing the widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. descriptions. Finding myself going back to non MP6 widget screens to get the description. It looks nice, yet for me personally the widget descriptions are very important.
Paal Joachim Romdahl 9:05 pm on October 18, 2013

What about right below the drop down select color scheme have 4 hexcode boxes for the user to add custom hexcode for the most used color areas?
mrwweb 10:33 pm on October 18, 2013

I think it’s been this way for a while, but I’m suddenly really struck by the lack of visible arrow indicators on metaboxes/widgets etc. They appear on hover, but for something like a collapsed sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. on Appearance > Widgets, there is no visual indication that a sidebar is toggled closed or toggled open.

I think making these indicators persistently visible would be a fairly minimal and easy change with a big win. Items that can collapse/expand would suddenly be much clearer for everyone new to the interface. Also, no hover on touch, so that.
- Joen Asmussen 7:43 am on October 21, 2013
  
  I’ve pushed a change to this. Collapse arrow indicators are now always visible on the widgets page (though semitransparent until hovered). For now this change is on the widgets page only, let’s discuss whether it’s necessary also on the dashboard.
Ulrich 7:01 am on October 19, 2013

There is some layout issues on the new 3.7 about page. /wp-admin/about.php

Here it how it looks normally-
https://www.diigo.com/item/image/4dblo/a7wj

And here with mp6
https://www.diigo.com/item/image/4dblo/876j
Paal Joachim Romdahl 12:57 pm on October 19, 2013

MP6 and contrast between boxes and the background. Looking through various screen the boxes blend too much into the background. Having just a pinch of darker border contrast will help to separate the two.

In regards to the widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. screen. A large layout causes there to be two columns for both widget areas. Taking it one step smaller we suddenly have a large left widgets area and a smaller right area. It would be nice to wait with taking the one step smaller until the screen size is even smaller then what is seen today. I created a post about this: http://easywebdesigntutorials.com/wordpress/mp6-and-the-widgets-screen/

When looking at my contrast screen one can obviously see the difference between a little darker border around the boxes then what mp6 uses today. Perhaps someplace between what I am showing and the existing mp6 css will help create a better contrast of boxes and background.

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