During WordCamp US there was a fire, forage and treasure exercise for WordPress. During this, we decided things to:
- 🔥Fire: That we wanted to get rid of.
- 🍄Forage: Wanted to borrow from somewhere else.
- 👑Treasure: What we wanted to keep.
🔥 Fire
- Images: replacing, organising
- Media library
- WP Admin menu page
- Non-Gutenberg baked building blocks
- Notification (alert UI spam)
- Badly formed notifications
- Page edit button going to the wrong page
- Changing color on the backend and it not showing up on the front
- !working
- Importer UI and experience
- Hidden settings
- Gutenberg gradient panel
- Menu inflexibility and mobile issues
- Mobile fonts whacky
- Structure
- Bloated (unorganised) admin menu
- Finding stuff in admin issues
- Access to dashboard issues
- Plugins that don’t play well
- Messy dashboard
- WP way
- Customizer > WP Admin > Gutenberg journey
- Themes being everything
- Inconsistency with CSS classes
🍄 Forage
- Spotify buttons
- Shopify dashboard consistency
- Super cool proudly made with WordPress badges
- Elementor type theme building in Gutenberg
- Design system – Bootstrap, Polaris
- Design creative ambassador program
- Role manager
- Mailchimp media image styles
- Shopify ease of payment
- Forms and lists of entries
- Newsletter signup
- Mobile layout visual editor
- Image sorts
- Easily organized files
- Easier file management
- Bear markdown
- Development version control built in
👑 Treasure
- Flexibility
- Open to customization
- Plugin updating experience
- WP-CLI
- API
- Blocks
- Cover block
- Block templates
- Writing drafts in Gutenberg
- Social aspect of post
- Meta boxes
- Page buttons
- One-click install
- Gutenberg
- Child themes
What would you fire, forage or treasure?