WordPress Version 3.0 Menu Management UI Update

Last time i checked the Menu UI in WordPress 3.0 was not satisfying so i wrote a little article on what i don’t like and how to fix it. Now they updated it and it’s much better then it was. So what did they do?

Before

• Unnecessary big font on the title tabs
• It wasn’t scalable. Eventually the size would reach more then maximum width and go down bellow the left sidebar options.
• The title tabs were going on top of each other, was really messy.

After

• Perfect font size on title tabs.
• It’s scalable, no more dropping down bellow the sidebar.
• The title tabs no longer go on top of each other, now there is a “neat” javascript code to make it scrollable. Simillar like a carousel but still not perfect. More on that in the conclusion.

Conclusion

A lot of improvement in the newest “nightly build” but still not perfect. To be specific, i don’t really like the tabs “slider”. Why?

• It fires up only on page load, and it should also work when we resize the window. That’s a proper slider.
• In my opinion the “add new menu” (the title tab with “+”) should be outside the slider. If i have a lot of menus i don’t want to keep scrolling till i reach the button for adding new menu.
• There is a big possibility someone will have a lot of menus. They are ordered from oldest to newest (looking from left to right). But it would be nice to have some filter options like order from a-z and newest to oldest at least. Filter by text search would also be nice.

That’s it for now.