Tag Archives: customize

Ryan Boren 2:12 pm on June 4, 2015
Tags: 32733, customize, , , keyboard-flyup, , ,   

Customize, Menus: Menu customizer, iPhone 6+

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 4.3-alpha-32689 and Menu 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. 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 0.5-20150604.

#32733, #customize, #customizer, #ios, #keyboard-flyup, #menus, #phablet, #visual-record

Nick Halsey 1:52 am on May 26, 2015
Tags: , customize, , , , , , , winphone   

Menus (admin) with Windows Phone on 4.2

  • WordPress 4.2.2
  • Old menus admin screen (to be compared with Menu 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.)
  • Windows Phone 8.1, IE11 Mobile (only browser allowed on this device)
  • Testing on an actual site whose menu I actually needed to make a couple edits to… because why not 🙂

Open site (logged in). Tap dashboard icon.
Tap Menus.
Menus page loads. The menu I want to edit is selected. Scroll down to the menu.
Trying to delete “Big Buddies”. Tap on it. Nothing Happens. Try zooming out.
Tap on the arrow for the item I want to delete.
After a delay, it opens. Tap remove.
The menu item is deleted. Now need to add a new item. Scroll up.
The item I need to add is a post. Tap posts.
Tab the checkbox for the item I want to add.
Tap add to menu.
Loading indicator, then stops. Scroll down.
Item is at the bottom of the menu. While scrolling, hierarchy and positioning is messed up for several items at the bottom of the menu. Need to drag it up.
Try dragging the new item up. It needs to be a sub-item of “PSWC”, which is much higher up the screen, just out of view. It lands three items up. Repeatedly try dragging it up higher with various techniques, no luck. Look around for another way to move items. Try tapping the arrow icon again.
Tap “up one”.
Item moves up, continue tapping up one several more times.
More up one. Eventually get to top and move “under PSWC”.
Scroll back down, need to cleanup broken hierarchy from trying to scroll earlier. Tap arrow icon.
Tap “under Environmental”.
Tap arrow for the Geotech item.
Tap out from under environmental
Tap to close the menu items (2 taps).
Look for save button. Scroll up, then down all the way.
Tap save menu.
Loading…
Tap home icon.
Tap visit site.
Site loads. Tap menu icon.
Item was successfully remove. Scroll down.
Item successfully added, messed up items successfully restored to correct positions.

#4-2, #customize, #customizer, #flow-comparison, #menus, #mobile, #phone, #visual-comparison, #winphone

designsimply 9:19 pm on May 25, 2015
Tags: customize, , , ,   

Testing Menus in the Customizer

  • WordPress 4.3-alpha-32600
  • Menu Customizer 0.4-20150525 (a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. feature-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 candidate)
  • Safari iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. 8.3 on iPhone 6

Observations

Note: this feature is still in development so there are some known issues (which I’m sure I’ve hit here).

  • Blocker: tapping “+ Add Link” in a new menu resulted in a phantom 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. (looks like it doesn’t move over into view like it should?).
  • The “+ Add a Menu” button is hard to spot on mobile if you have several menus saved already.
  • The “+ Add a Menu” button is sits really close to the bottom menu bar in Safari on iOS. Some space below it could help make it a bigger tap target.
  • After tapping the “Reorder” link, I was surprised I could still tap and hold to drag menu items.
  • Scrolling is really hard on iOS, especially with the menu items being so wide on a small device screen.

Start in the dashboard.
Land at 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. menu panel after tapping Tap menu icon > Appearance > Customize.
Try tapping the arrow to the right of Menus and accidentally tap the 4-square-boxes icon which opens the advanced menu properties. This surprised me.
Tap Menu Locations.
Change the Primary Menu to “Shorter Menu” and tap “Done.”
From here, tried tapping “+ Add a Menu” and the “+” turned into an “x” but couldn’t see the form at fist because it was still off screen below the button.
Scroll down and then can see a form to enter a new menu name.
This is what I saw after creating a menu, but I think I tapped something I shouldn’t have and the blank keyboard seems like an iOS bug, so I tap “Done” and try again.
Tap “+ Add Links” button.
Got stuck here. The cursor is present but the UI is invisible (very odd).
Next, try editing an existing menu. Tap “Testing Menu” and it opens very low on the screen so I have to scroll down.
Tap “Pages” since it’s a duplicate. Tap “x Remove” and it gets rid of the menu item.
Some of the items/arrows have a darker outline, but I’m not sure why. They seem stuck. (This could be user error because I tapped around a bunch.)
Tap “Shorter Menu.”
Tap “Reorder.”
Tap indent icon to make “About” a submenu.
Open a menu with lots more items in it and scroll down to the “Reorder” link.
Tap “Reorder” and notice that I can still drag and drop while in this mode.

#customize, #customizer, #ios, #menus, #phone

Ryan Boren 5:45 pm on April 15, 2015
Tags: customize, , , ,   

Adding a widget via the customizer, iPad Air, landscape

4.2-beta4-32130, iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. 8.3, and Jetpack 3.4.1

#customize, #customizer, #mobile, #tablet, #widgets

Ryan Boren 5:34 pm on April 3, 2015
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Remove a widget with the customizer, iPhone 6+

The goal is to remove a 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. from the hamburger accessed 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. menu in Twenty Fifteen.

Notes:

When in preview mode, the stacked nav of widgets is pretty subtle. There is no transition other than < changing to X.

I accidentally move widgets when swiping to scroll all the time. I’ve taken to very carefully swiping along the edges to avoid the widget headers, similar to what I have to do in the post editor. I notice there’s a Reorder button at the bottom of the widgets panel. Should widget rearrangement be confined to it?

 

4.2-beta4-31998

#4-2, #customize, #customizer, #ios, #mobile, #phablet, #web, #widgets

Ryan Boren 7:54 pm on April 2, 2015
Tags: , customize, , , theme switcher   

Previewing and switching themes in the customizer, iPhone 6+

4.2-beta3-31985

Switch back to Twenty Fifteen, this time using the Theme Details flowFlow Flow is the path of screens and interactions taken to accomplish a task. It’s an experience vector. Flow is also a feeling. It’s being unselfconscious and in the zone. Flow is what happens when difficulties are removed and you are freed to pursue an activity without forming intentions. You just do it.

Flow is the actual user experience, in many ways. If you like, you can think of flow as a really comprehensive set of user stories. When you think about user flow, you’re thinking about exactly how a user will perform the tasks allowed by your product.Flow and Context
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#4-2, #customize, #customizer, #mobile, #theme-switcher

Ryan Boren 3:54 pm on February 3, 2015
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Vizrec for #28784, Improve the Customize experience on mobile, iPhone 6+, 28784.diff, 4.2-alpha-31325

Starting on the front page, enter 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., change the color scheme, add a background image, change the tagline, and then return to the front page. Compare to the unpatched experience.

#customize, #customizer, #ios, #phablet

Ryan Boren 6:42 pm on February 2, 2015
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A peek at the customizer on an iPhone 6+, 4.2-alpha-31322

#customize, #customizer, #ios, #phablet