The Design Team provides user experience, user interface, and visual design expertise for the WordPress project.
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Our vision is to be the go-to resource for design for other teams across the WordPress open sourceOpen SourceOpen Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. project.
As part of a broader project to reimagine the visual appearance, functionality, and other elements of the WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ website, one of the next focus areas is the WordPress Theme Directory. It will soon receive a refresh similar to other pages of the WordPress.org website, such as Showcase or News.
The images above provide a general overview of the site’s main landing page, theme details page, and the theme preview flow.
The refresh brings the Theme Directory in alignment with the vision for WordPress.org, updates the theme taxonomies, and includes improved usability. Additional updates and enhancements are planned in the future, and this iteration of the site focuses primarily on design work while leveraging existing functionality.
Contributors are welcome to provide feedback on this project within the Figma file or the GitHub repository.
Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.
Learn redesign
We continued working on the Learn redesign. Figma file.
Themes Directory redesign
Designs for a Themes Directory redesign.
Button Padding
Before/After
From the department of details that matter, a bug concerning button padding was fixed. Completed in PR 46764.
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.
Translate Redesign
We explored a redesign of the Translate pages with several things still being worked on.
Top toolbar improvements
For constrained contexts or simply if you prefer, there’s an option to dock the blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. toolbar to the top of the screen. At the moment this results in a stacked and somewhat clumsy experience, which these explorations aim to mitigate through making the singular top toolbar contextual. Needs dev in 40450.
An in-canvas drag handle exploration
An ongoing problem with the top toolbar option is that there’s no handle for drag and drop. To go along with top toolbar improvements, this is an exploration to move the handle back in context of the block, same color as the text, so it works for either toolbar configuration.
Move outline stats to the top of the outline
The document outline was recently merged into the list view. Responding to feedback that it was easy to miss at the bottom, we moved those stats to the top of the outline tab. Completed in 46648.
A unified UIUIUI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. components grid
Block editor UI components are currently a mix of sizes ranging from 32 over 36 to 40px in height. This new issue outlines an approach to unifying on 32 and 40px sizes, with 40px being the tall and graceful default, and the more compact size being appropriate for a few specific contexts, such as the top toolbar. Issue 46734.
Adding Fonts
Mockups to go with PR 46332, which explores font management.
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.
Top Toolbar improvements
When “Top toolbar” is enabled, or when the blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. editor is used in constrained contexts, the toolbar is moved from the block context to the top of the viewport. The current behavior is not as elegant as it could be, and in this issue we are exploring enhancements.
Hosting redesign
We worked on the initial iteration of the redesign of the Hosting page. Figma file.
Jobs redesign
We continued iterating the Jobs site adding secondary pages and updating several components. Figma file.
Learn redesign
We worked on the initial iteration of the redesign of the Learn pages. Figma file.
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.
Developer and Documentation redesigns
We continued iterating the design of the Developer and Documentation pages with feedback from the community and the WordPress Documentation team.
Jobs redesign
We started redesigning the WordPress Jobs website. Figma file with an initial iteration.
Global styles summary view for blocks and styles
We are working on a feature called Style Book, a collection of every blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. available organized by categoryCategoryThe 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. that can be used to customize and preview the style of a site. Figma file and issue.
Summary panel grid tweaks
Before/After
A very tiny improvement to the spacing of items in the post status summary panel. More work to be done. PR.
Snap point updates
Updated mockups for rendering snap-points when resizing images. There is an interesting CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. challenge for rendering the overlay with transparent gutters in both centered, and justified right configurations.
Global Styles panel/drilldown synchronicity
Efforts to add box-shadow controls to the editor have unearthed an inconsistency between Global Styles properties and inspector panels. For example, a missing “Border” panel, resulting in border properties currently being found in the “Layout” section. This PR adds a new border panel, with some icon work attached.
Menu Item Transforms
Building navigation is made slower by having to pick between mostly similar item types, “Page Link” vs. “Custom Link”. This issue details a simplification to hopefully reduce to a single item that can be transformed in the inspector.
FilterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. counter in Openverse
The filters applied counter is coming back to the Filter button and the filter tab. The idea is for improving the content settings flow and how users are aware of the narrowed results.
Browse Mode
Pull Request #44770 reorganizes the site editor so that it is better positioned for exciting future enhancements like browse mode.
Shadows
Pull Request #46228 explores higher definition shadows in the block editor UIUIUI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing..
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.
Style variations for blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. types
Block style variations are preset block designs. These mockups explore a way to edit them in one place, as well as create new ones. Issue.
Drop shadow tools
Editing and applying drop shadows to blocks, locally and globally, should be possible. These mockups explore how. Issue.
Developers redesign
Work was started on a redesign of the developer section of the WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ support pages. Figma file
Enterprise redesign
A mockup for a redesign of the Enterprise page of wordpress.org to follow the new style from News. Figma file.
Updating the Padding control
A follow-up design evolution of the preset padding control in GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/.
If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, please drop a note in the Design channel on the Making WordPress SlackSlackSlack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..
In the near future, the Showcase section will receive a refresh in the visual style started with /News:
The gallery above shows the three basic layouts: landing page, single page, and archive.
The refresh of the Showcase site addresses several requests that have been made in previous discussions (Call for design: WordPress Showcase, Showcase redesign, and this Showcase GitHub issue), such as adding supplementary metadata to each showcased site, improving the mobile page layout and, in general, making the design of the whole section more modern and exciting. The current work represents a starting point that will continue to be iterated upon as additional features, and content changes are explored.
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