A brief visual history of wp-admin’s h1

This ticket comment has some visual historyVisual history A visual history shows the evolution of an interface over time and across releases. of the h1 in wp-admin that I’d like to bubble up to here. Thanks @afercia.

 h1 was used for the site name in all the admin screens, with a link back to the front page. It was removed with the refactoring of the admin bar. See how it looked in WordPress 3.0 in this screenshot.

h1 was used for the site name in all the admin screens, with a link back to the front page. It was removed with the refactoring of the admin bar. See how it looked in WordPress 3.0 in this screenshot.

Prior to 3.0, the header had "Visit Site" cuddled next the site name h1 to make it more discoverable. This screenshot shows WP 2.7.

Priori to 3.0, the headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. had “Visit Site” cuddled next the site name h1 to make it more discoverable. This screenshot shows WP 2.7.

More screenshots at: https://cloudup.com/cqzGvz97_zO

#2-7, #3-0, #31650, #dashboard, #h1, #ia, #visit-site, #visual-comparison, #visual-history

Today in the Nightly: Inline link toolbar and Press This split button

Here are two cool things that recently landed in trunk and are available right now in the nightly build. Install the nightly. Try them.

Inline Link Toolbar

Being able to visit links straight from the editor means no more copy paste into the browser’s location bar. Nice. Also nice is being able to see the link without popping up the link modal.

Screen Shot 2015-06-26 at 1.04.59 AM

One time I tapped X thinking it would dismiss the toolbar.

One time I tapped X thinking it would dismiss the toolbar.

To test, visit the editor and click/tap into a link. The link toolbar will appear. If it does not, try forcing a browser refresh (Shift+Reload in Chrome on Mac OS). Provide feedack on  #32604 or in #core-customize or in reply to this post. Check out this make/flow post for more visuals.

Press This split button

Draft, preview, and standard editor are now in a split button with Publish.

Screen Shot 2015-06-26 at 1.39.13 AMpress_this_with_split_button_on_iphone_6_

 

 

To test, go to the Tools menu and check out the Press This section at the top. Provide feedback on #32757 or in #core-pressthis or in reply to this post.

#4-3, #editor, #link-toolbar, #links, #press-this, #today-in-the-nightly, #visual-comparison

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 🙂

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

Visual record comparison: The medial modal on a Nexus 5, one month ago and today

One month ago

One month ago

 

Today

Today

#android, #media, #modal, #phone, #visual-comparison, #web