This Is Not a Feature List
The below notes are a discussion point of reference for today’s chat. This is NOT a feature list AT ALL. This means you, wpcandy and wptavern! 
Seriously, these are just notes so we talk about stuff, not features we are building.
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“The ‘Customize Your Site’ Release (a.k.a. the one that helps you make things look the way you want them to look)
Features: a ‘configure and activate’ wizard (Code Name: Gandalf), new default theme, individual improvements within Appearance and/or that show up on the front end
Core Team: Ryan Mark Westi Ozz Nacin Dion Koop Cave
54 possible volunteers”
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Feature Possibilities:
Twenty Twelve theme – Matt, Lance
Framework for configure and activate (theme + associated custom header, background, menus, widgets) – Koop, Ocean
- live preview of theme changes
- activate without configure
- drag and drop sidebars/widget areas from old theme to new theme
- configure a new theme, with preview, and then push that theme live
- easier static front page process
Better multisite support – Mark, Pete
- improve UI
- network enable v activate (parity with plugins)
- subdirectory installs
- get rid of ms-files.php (performance win)
- autocomplete usernames or site names for network admin – Drew, japheth
Language Packs (can we find some language that makes this more understandable to the average user?) – Nacin, Dion, Sergey
Project: PinkPonyPress
- MVC
- Database abstraction
- Smarty templating
Better theme finding – Helen, Mike S
- infinite scroll on themes screen
- multiple screenshots per theme
Better widgets – unassigned
- widget area locations
- widget preview, explicit save
- clean up widgets screen, make it more streamlined
Better headers – Aaron and sabreuse
- variable height
- choose from media library
Better backgrounds
- choose from media library
Settings
- title tag as a setting instead of owned by theme – Cave, Boren
- meta description tag in general settings – Cave, Boren
Media
- links in captions azaozz
- imgmagick color profiles?
- gallery wysiwyg if someone works on it
Editor
- TMCE improvements – azaozz, stas
Mobile
- Work well in iPad/Fire (responsive CSS) Azaozz, georgestephanis
- XML-RPC Westi, Max Cutler, Marko (API focus)
- XML-RPC Joseph, Eric Mann (Bugs/features focus)
Master Gardening – Ryan, Jon Cave
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Jon Brown 9:16 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
Looks like a good list to start from. Not that we’re voting but +1 to easier static front page process and widget UI.
I know the list isn’t inteded to be exhaustive, but hoping ticket 18179 (MetaBox Class) stays in and gets handled this round. Also wondering if anyone is interested in ticket 15971 (sorry but it’s well beyond my skills to offer a patch for this one).
Erlend 10:09 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
Liking the focus on Multisite. Although it’s not really .org territory, it would be great to finally have JetPack working properly on multisite. I have yet to see a solution to the issues stated in this thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-by-wordpresscom-jetpack-on-multi-site
Joachim Kudish 3:21 am on January 12, 2012 Permalink |
Too bad I missed the chat today. What exactly is “Project: PinkPonyPress”? I’d be interested in participating in that set of features if it will in fact get worked on.
Also, what happened to a possible json API (to compliment XML-RPC)? Thought there were talks of that for 3.4…
Was there any talk about how the 54 volunteers (I included) would get their tasks assigned?
Joachim Kudish 6:28 pm on January 13, 2012 Permalink |
Can’t believe I took pinkponypress seriously… woops! #gullable
Japh 11:17 pm on January 17, 2012 Permalink |
Have a read over the IRC logs: https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=wordpress-dev&day=2012-01-11&sort=asc
Joachim Kudish 11:18 pm on January 17, 2012 Permalink
yes, yes… I did, later…
Jamàl 6:37 am on January 12, 2012 Permalink |
What about the WP Settings overhaul and the proposed Met Box class? I know that this is NOT feature list, but they sound cool.
Tom Lynch 10:09 pm on January 24, 2012 Permalink |
I would like to know about this as well as I have been waiting and waiting for nearly a year for this feature and it keeps being pushed back, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.0???
Jane Wells 4:06 pm on January 25, 2012 Permalink
For settings overhaul, in addition to the UI work in the dashboard it will require new API stuff. We have limited core developers and need to prioritize based on the things that will improve WP for the greatest number of users. Settings just hasn’t trumped other stuff yet.
Ryan McCue 11:50 am on January 13, 2012 Permalink |
Just wondering: why wasn’t Django on the discussion for PinkPonyPress?