THE PENDING DRAFT

Last week it was announced that the Menu Customizer Feature Plugin was conditionally approved to be merged into core. A step which was quite controversial among developers. While we can have different views on whether the customizer is the right place or not, i think Carl Hancock nailed it when he said:

WordPress the open source project needs to decide what the future of the admin user interface is. It needs to pick a direction and it needs to go all in with it. This piecemeal approach of splitting up functionality between the Dashboard user interface and the Customizer user interface is an extremely poor direction to take from from both a user interface and user experience standpoint.

It’s not about whether we like or dislike the customizer at all or an “educational issue” as the plugin developer Nick Halsey has put it. The main problem is the UI fragmentation that comes with it and i think this should be addressed first, before it get’s merged into core.

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