Accomplished this week
1) We held our weekly IRC chat last Tuesday, and @joen shared the following:
He also shared a whittled down version of the current “Right Now” widget which looks like this:
These mockups solicited the following feedback:
- Can we merge the “3 new comments since your last visit” and “recent comments” sections?
- Under QuickDraft, let’s just start by showing the title. On keyup, the other elements will slide down.
- Unclear what the three dots mean in the vertical divider (they’re drag handles). We’ll keep working on it.
- Can we add the plugins widget into the new combined “News” widget somehow?
- Note that multisite hides the plugins widget. Something to keep in mind as we refactor these.
2) Joen worked up 2 additional mockups:
Option A:
Option B:
3) In our Skype chat we brought up 2 additional things to think about:
- What doe the activity feed look like when a user first installs WP? When there isn’t any updates, scheduled posts, or comments?
- Where does the welcome screen fit into all of this?
We need your help
- We need developers. We’re ready to start building some of this out. But we need some core developers to join our ranks. If you have any interest, please leave a note in the comments.
- Feedback on anything above is much appreciated.
Up next
We’ll hold another IRC chat this coming Tuesday at Tuesday, September 17th, 2:00pm UTC in #wordpress-ui.