Ticket #5660 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 6 months ago

Redesign of Plugins page

Reported by: DD32 Assigned to: DD32
Priority: lowest Milestone: 2.5
Component: Administration Version: 2.5
Severity: normal Keywords: has-patch
Cc:

Description

First up, I'm not sure if theres any redesign for the admin plugin pages in the works or not, But even if there is, I thought i'd get this out there as an idea.

As i mentioned here: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5625#comment:18 It'd be nice for the plugins page to have a single actions column, It should look a bit cleaner, and also allows more links/dynamic number of links to be presented in much the same way.
It would be a clean way to display the Uninstall link(#5625) as well (Screenshot includes a example of adding a 'Configure' link to the actions list)

I've attached a patch, And also a screenshot of the result, The CSS styling will probably need changing, but i'm mainly after input from devs on this. I'm happy for this ticket to remain on ice until after the admin redesign has been completely done, I just wanted to get this out there now.

Attachments

example.png (7.9 kB) - added by DD32 on 01/14/08 01:09:43.
5660.diff (4.4 kB) - added by DD32 on 01/14/08 01:10:16.
plugins.tiff (215.7 kB) - added by ryan on 01/16/08 03:58:10.
Manage Plugins Wireframe
5660.2.diff (3.8 kB) - added by DD32 on 03/26/08 03:42:43.
refresh the patch to allow a customised list of action links (refreshed again after [7515])

Change History

01/14/08 01:09:43 changed by DD32

  • attachment example.png added.

01/14/08 01:10:16 changed by DD32

  • attachment 5660.diff added.

01/14/08 01:29:02 changed by spencerp

I like this idea. +1 from me.

(follow-up: ↓ 5 ) 01/14/08 04:55:56 changed by darkdragon

Hmm, I think I like the version in its own column after all.

I hope the devs like this idea as well. It would make adding configure link and uninstall a lot easier/cleaner.

(follow-up: ↓ 4 ) 01/14/08 04:58:16 changed by darkdragon

How did you get the configure link to show up? I'm not finding the code in the patch. It would be neat if the last column was nowrap.

(in reply to: ↑ 3 ) 01/14/08 05:03:35 changed by DD32

Replying to darkdragon:

How did you get the configure link to show up? I'm not finding the code in the patch. It would be neat if the last column was nowrap.

The column not wrapping would indeed be good.

As for the configure link, I simply used this code in a plugin file: (Mind you, A plugin would call a function to register such a link i would assume, and there'd be a check in the row loop to se if theres a configure link, or an uninstall link available for it) 

add_filter('plugin_row_actions','pluginaction_filter');
function pluginaction_filter($actions){
	if( rand(1,3) == 1 ) //Only show it 1/3 of the time
		$actions[] = "<a href='#'>Configure</a>";
	return $actions;
}

(in reply to: ↑ 2 ) 01/14/08 05:06:00 changed by DD32

Replying to darkdragon:

Hmm, I think I like the version in its own column after all.

I'm still undecided on that as well honestly, The version number isn't something i care for, I dont need to see it all the time, But it doesnt look 'right' there either.

(follow-up: ↓ 8 ) 01/14/08 07:04:36 changed by darkdragon

It could be in the title attribute of the Plugin Name?

01/14/08 07:05:11 changed by darkdragon

Or hidden by default but using JavaScript have the column with the version come up.

(in reply to: ↑ 6 ) 01/14/08 07:20:24 changed by DD32

Replying to darkdragon:

It could be in the title attribute of the Plugin Name?

Thats a possibility, But it also needs to be visible for a quick-look of what the current version is IMO.

Or hidden by default but using JavaScript? have the column with the version come up.

Relying on Javascript for basic functionality seems a bad idea to me, But still a possibility.

I'm personally thinking re-instating the Version column, And trying to make the Action column behave nicer with the wrapping. I'm not that great with useable interfaces, So any suggestions are worth trying :)

Devs: Is the Green staying in the redesign? Is the table as we know it staying(aside from this ticket)?

I think i'll just not think about it too much until a dev can confirm if its worth going ahead with at the present time, I think a non-column-for-each-functionality layout is the way to go myself though - the original reason for this ticket.

01/14/08 23:43:14 changed by ryan

I'll investigate what is planned for the plugins page.

01/16/08 03:29:12 changed by ryan

The mockups do exactly what you have done, so I think we can go with this.

01/16/08 03:58:10 changed by ryan

  • attachment plugins.tiff added.

Manage Plugins Wireframe

(follow-up: ↓ 13 ) 01/16/08 03:59:23 changed by ryan

Acutally, although a vertical bar is used a separator, the actions are still justified with each other across rows. See the attached tiff of the wireframe.

01/16/08 04:54:30 changed by ryan

Let's retain the version column for now. If we need to retain colspan on the actions to get things to line up, we can do a count on the new actions array.

(in reply to: ↑ 11 ) 01/16/08 08:50:15 changed by DD32

Replying to ryan:

Acutally, although a vertical bar is used a separator, the actions are still justified with each other across rows. See the attached tiff of the wireframe.

Looking at that wireframe, it does look nice and slick, And the version column fits in nicely.

As for the actions, It seems they're just right justified to me, Which gives the column view.

Maybe 'Configure'(or any other actions) could be listed underneath Deactivate/Edit, As it seems the Delete button would be used for any uninstall methods.

02/17/08 17:39:19 changed by darkdragon

  • type changed from defect to enhancement.
  • milestone changed from 2.5 to 2.6.

It doesn't seem that the plugins matches the new redesign. The plugins page has been cleaned up to match the new redesign, but hasn't added any of the new features.

I'm bumping this to 2.6, because I think this is a great idea and would like for it to get in soon.

03/09/08 05:50:29 changed by DD32

  • keywords changed from dev-feedback 2nd-opinion has-patch to needs-patch.

resetting to needs-patch, Ticket can be re-used for modifying plugin page in 2.6 to support more flexible functionality(dynamic columns/etc)

03/26/08 02:11:40 changed by DD32

Should be noted here that the Use of a single column + Pipes was introduced with this changeset:

(In [7066]) Style updates to plugins, export, and sidemenu from mt. fixes #6019

03/26/08 02:43:54 changed by DD32

  • keywords changed from needs-patch to has-patch.

attachment 5660.2.diff added. refresh the patch to allow a customised list of action links

Allows a function to filter the list as such: 

add_filter('plugin_action_links', 'plugins_configure');
function plugins_configure($actions){
	return array_merge(array('<a href="#">Configure</a>'), $actions);
}

which adds a Configure link to the start of the list, simpler to attach a link to the end of the list.

03/26/08 03:42:43 changed by DD32

  • attachment 5660.2.diff added.

refresh the patch to allow a customised list of action links (refreshed again after [7515])

03/26/08 03:59:40 changed by ryan

(In [7517]) Filter list of plugins actions. Props DD32. see #5660

03/26/08 04:09:03 changed by DD32

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.
  • milestone changed from 2.6 to 2.5.

I'm going to call this Fixed, All the changes mentioned in the ticket have either been met by [7517] or [7066].

A Uninstall or Delete function will probably be in a new ticket anyway.

05/14/08 00:53:09 changed by DD32

Closed #4498 as a duplicate of this ticket.

I've also written up a plugin which showcases the ability to add a link to the start, or end of the plugin action list. It also shows activation/deactivation/validation of options.

http://dd32.id.au/files/wordpress/test-configure-link.php