Matt (Thomas) Miklic 11:54 pm on April 19, 2013
Tags: mp6 ( 24 )

Greetings Savvy WordPress Enthusiasts Time for another update…

Greetings, Savvy WordPress Enthusiasts. Time for another update to 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 that gives WordPress that new car smell again, MP6.

This week, we worked on getting MP6 into the hands of a few million new potential testers. We’ve already gotten some interesting feedback from WordPress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ users, and hopefully our experience getting WordPress.com’s various moving bits working alongside MP6 will help pave the way for plugin authors when the new design has started making its way into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..

In version 0.8, we have:

Prepared MP6 for a new opt-in test on WordPress.com.
Updated the Dashicons font with more consistent icon alignment.
Removed cursor: default from current items in the menu bar. (ref)
Updated color of 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. titles so they’re readable on the new blue background. (ref)
Improved typography on Post RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. page.
Fixed the alignment and sizing of checkboxes. (ref)
Removed CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. for old PNG icons.
Fixed display issues with the bulk editor.
Made improvements to Press This.
Improved the legibility of the Browse Happy outdated browser warnings.

This week’s iteration includes contributions from Joen Asmussen, Ben Dunkle, Till Krüss, and myself.

As usual, we’ll be in #wordpress-ui on Monday April 22 at 1800 UTC to discuss your feedback on this week’s edition. Thanks as always to those of you who have helped with feedback, patches, and suggestions so far.

#mp6

mattatifpd 4:17 am on April 20, 2013

Loving this more with every iteration! One bug I’ve noticed is that plugins that add their titles to the “Settings” menu sometimes have long titles. So far, those long titles don’t wrap. This should fix that (though I don’t know if this affects other things I haven’t yet noticed):

In colors-mp6.css line 214, change this:
#adminmenu .wp-submenu {white-space: nowrap;}
to this
#adminmenu .wp-submenu {white-space: normal;}

Here’s a screenshot of the title not wrapping (as an example): https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6ec7mjfx6c9cbm/Discussion%20Settings%20%E2%80%B9%20Matt%20Cromwell%20%E2%80%94%20WordPress_2013-04-19_21-09-20.png

Hope that helps!
- mattatifpd 4:24 am on April 20, 2013
  
  CORRECTION: Iit’s line 373
- John Blackbourn (johnbillion) 1:10 pm on April 20, 2013
  
  I believe this was mentioned by the l10n teams too. The German language especially has some very long words and phrases.
- Matt Thomas 12:40 am on April 25, 2013
  
  Thanks, this is on our to-do list now.
Hassan 11:50 am on April 20, 2013

Good job folks.

1. I see that Firefox isn’t getting any custom checkboxes/radios love still?

2. Try to hover over any admin menu item that has a sub menu, now move your mouse slowly to the edge of the menu approaching the grey arrow, the sub menu will go away. There is a “blind spot” there, I believe. This happens only when admin menu is expanded.

3. There is inconsistency in the size of the arrow when the admin menu is collapsed. Screenshot.

4. wp-list-table headers still need some love folks! They’re not easily distinguished from textual row data.

5. I think field labels (e.g. in You Profile page) shouldn’t be bold; leave the emboldening to the h3 section headers instead, so that titles are distinct from content. Comparison screenshot.

6. There is some inconsistency around those red-ish Delete/Remove links through various areas in wp-admin. Sometimes they have underlines, sometimes it’s a border-bottom. Hovering sometimes puts a red background on the whole link, sometimes it’s just a border etc. Also, the padding on hover isn’t correct for the Delete Menu link under Settings > Menus.

7. I’m still not sure how to put this, but this “visual unification” thing for the admin menu and toolbar is still missing something… I wish I could figure out what it is.

8. Those new icons in the Publish metaMeta 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. box are cool! Yay, calendar icon is no lonely anymore 😀
- Matt Thomas 12:38 am on April 25, 2013
  
  #1 – No checkbox love for Firefox, sadly, as Mozilla’s support for changing the appearance of checkboxes is not great.
  
  #2 – I think the script for menus may be changing to the amazon-style instant dropdowns, but will keep this in mind.
  
  The rest I’ll take a look at. 🙂
Ulrich 12:59 pm on April 20, 2013

I am correct in understanding the responsive design is not finished yet. This is what I when I resize my chrome browser and try to open the menu.
http://pix.am/HeqX.png
- Matt Thomas 12:35 am on April 25, 2013
  
  Yep, responsive styles are still very much in progress; should be improving over the next few weeks.
Jose Castaneda 3:08 pm on April 20, 2013

@Hassan I noticed #2 as well while using Chrome, Safari and Firefox but IE10 seems to not have that issue.

One thing I did notice is when you hover on the table pagination the styling seems to lack a little contrast.
http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/9237/mp6tablenav.png

The second is the footer seems a little odd when the menu is expanded:
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/51/mp6footer.png
- Matt Thomas 12:39 am on April 25, 2013
  
  Thanks, I’ve added both of these to our list.
- Matt Thomas 12:46 am on April 30, 2013
  
  A fix for the table pagination issue is now in trunk.
  
  I haven’t managed to reproduce the second issue with the footer overlaying the 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.; let me know where you’re seeing that if you still are.
juicypixels 9:16 pm on April 20, 2013

The footer is messed up for me. Line 3479 is .rtl #wpcontent, #wpfooter but should be .rtl #wpcontent, .rtl #wpfooter.
- mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) 1:20 am on April 21, 2013
  
  Thanks! This will be fixed in the next version.
NumberKruncher 2:09 pm on April 21, 2013

The checkboxes are still appearing incorrectly in the “Edit Gallery” section (see http://pbrd.co/11XdIEc). This is occurring with 0.8 on my development server plus on my wordpress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ account.
- Matt Thomas 12:35 am on April 25, 2013
  
  A fix for this is now in trunk.
  - NumberKruncher 12:45 am on April 25, 2013
    
    Thanks, fantastic stuff – works like a charm!
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 10:46 pm on April 23, 2013

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. titles are totally readable in active widgets now! Yay!

Not so much for inactive: http://cl.ly/image/3p1e3j1p1Q2t

May I suggest this?

#wp_inactive_widgets .in-widget-title { color: #0074A2; }
- Matt Thomas 12:39 am on April 25, 2013
  
  Can you tell I haven’t spent much time on widgets yet? 🙂 Thanks for this; I’ll get a fix into the next release.
- Matt Thomas 9:55 pm on April 26, 2013
  
  This is fixed up in trunk now; thanks for the report!
John Blackbourn (johnbillion) 8:42 am on April 26, 2013

Small issue: The table headers on the comment moderation screen are missing some padding.
- Matt Thomas 9:56 pm on April 26, 2013
  
  Thanks; I’ve added this to our list.
- Matt Thomas 12:31 am on April 30, 2013
  
  This is fixed up now in trunk.
Jamàl 6:06 am on April 30, 2013

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