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Navigation: Try removing "Add all pages" from placeholder. #36775

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As the navigation block is evolving with persistance, the placeholder state may play a smaller role in favor of pre-built menus and patterns that leverage them. These patterns might include the Page List by default, or the menu does. What remains are two ways to start a new menu: empty or with the "All Pages" block preinserted:

Screenshot 2021-11-23 at 12 54 09

Recent anecdotal feedback from a friend, "Why did it create all these pages that I don’t need?", suggests that the "Add all pages" option isn't necessarily the most obvious one. And in light of the changes to persistence, it might indeed make sense to just not include the option at all: it can still be added manually, or as part of a pattern. So this PR removes it:

Screenshot 2021-11-23 at 12 57 00

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Add a navigation block, see that it includes only two options.

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@jasmussen jasmussen added [Type] Enhancement A suggestion for improvement. [Block] Navigation Affects the Navigation Block labels Nov 23, 2021
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Recent anecdotal feedback from a friend, "Why did it create all these pages that I don’t need?", suggests that the "Add all pages" option isn't necessarily the most obvious one.

It makes sense to me. In testing I find myself using it all the time, but in real life Navigation Menus are, generally, just a really specific, important set of pages. Taking as an example GitHub itself, "Pull requests, Issues, Marketplace, and Explore" aren't all the pages they have, and the set of pages displayed in the footer proves that point.

e2e test failure seems unrelated, it's not failing locally.

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Thanks for the review! I agree with all of this, and it's the motivation for the PR. I'll let it sit for Isabel to have a chance to chime in, and then hopefully land it some time tomorrow.

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For what it's worth I think this would be a good simplification of the block.
It is a small code change I found no problems in my manual test.

One question -If there are no menus already saved, is the "start empty" still relevant?
It is then the only option you have, and you have to manually select it, it can't be skipped.

When a navigation block is added, and the select menu option is not available, only the "start empty" option is visible

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Thanks so much for the reviews.

One question -If there are no menus already saved, is the "start empty" still relevant?
It is then the only option you have, and you have to manually select it, it can't be skipped.

Excellent question, and I think it's one of the pieces still being worked out, and why despite both your much appreciated blessings, I'll await a sanity check from Isabel. I think she has insights on this that I don't have.

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tellthemachines commented Nov 23, 2021

I agree with the change in principle 😄 , but it would be good to look into this scenario:

If there are no menus already saved, is the "start empty" still relevant?
It is then the only option you have, and you have to manually select it, it can't be skipped.

There is also some logic around handling "add all pages" vs "start empty" that should be removed now there's only one of these options.

But most importantly, before we go ahead with this PR, I'd like to see #36760 merged, because that one is a blocker for 5.9 and it touches the same code (it removes the menu naming dialog). Let's get that out of the way first, and then I'm happy to help with this experiment, and any conflicts that result.

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Thank you for the sanity check! I'll mark this one as blocked for now and we can revisit.

There is also some logic around handling "add all pages" vs "start empty" that should be removed now there's only one of these options.

Imagining beyond near term solutions and just speculating on #36667 (which notes a lack of a dropdown for selecting menus!), that interface seems to suggest that there could be a default menu — just all the pages on your site — shown in that interface on a fresh install where a user never explicitly created a menu in the first place. If that came into being, I imagine a navigation menu could skip the placeholder step entirely, and just show that?

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If that came into being, I imagine a navigation menu could skip the placeholder step entirely, and just show that?

It should be possible to skip the placeholder if there are no existing menus, but if menus have already been created, it makes sense to show the placeholder with the dropdown, so users have the choice to re-use an existing menu.

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I fixed the conflicts and removed the dead code, but perhaps we should hold off on this until Beta 1 (unless we want it to go into 5.9?) to avoid potential conflicts with any other urgent nav work that's being prepared. I'd also like to look into not showing the placeholder if there aren't any menus, once the 5.9 rush is over 😅

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jasmussen commented Nov 25, 2021

Thank you as always!

perhaps we should hold off on this until Beta 1 (unless we want it to go into 5.9?)

I don't have a very strong opinion and I'd be happy to defer to you or anyone with a strong opinion. I consider this particular PR to be 1 of 3 (with the other two being #36778 and #36858) that are important to improving the initial setup state. I like the idea of those three being ready to go at a moments notice, should they suddenly become a priority.

That brings me to the genesis of the changes, which is recurring feedback from @annezazu's outreaches, notably around the gray loading-state-like blobs.

I'd also like to look into not showing the placeholder if there aren't any menus, once the 5.9 rush is over

Oh from my perspective that's mostly a a notion for an optimization, and not necessarily a clear task.

Thanks again!

@jasmussen jasmussen force-pushed the try/navigation-remove-all-pages branch from f15f36c to e5fa450 Compare January 26, 2022 08:28
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I've rebased this one, would love to land it.

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Thanks for wrangling this @jasmussen 👏

I tested this and it does successfully remove the All Pages option ✅

Whilst I support the proposal in principle, I do wonder whether we're acting too soon on changing the block UI before we have time to digest the (user) feedback we receive from WP 5.9.

That said, this seems to have broad support from contributors so I wouldn't want to hold this up if folks really believe it's a good choice.

As noted by @carolinan, I would like to see us evolve the UI such that if there are no options other than Start empty in the placeholder, then we simply bypass the placeholder entirely. Do we have an Issue tracking this as a requirement?

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As noted by @carolinan, I would like to see us evolve the UI such that if there are no options other than Start empty in the placeholder, then we simply bypass the placeholder entirely. Do we have an Issue tracking this as a requirement?

🎉 I wholly love that idea. No, I don't believe an issue exists yet dedicated specifically to this. Some of the things to discuss, I imagine, are:

  • If a single menu has been created, maybe we can load that in by default.
  • For when you need to create a new menu, perhaps we need a "Create new menu" button in the "Select menu" dropdown, so you can create one when a menu was already loaded.
  • For when multiple menus, or multiple classic menus exist, we likely do need a setup state. I'm refreshing Navigation: Remove blobs that look like a loading state #37099 as an alternative to the gray blobs.

For when zero menus are created, we need to think about #36667. In my reading, what it says is that if no menus have been created yet, assume the page structure of a site is the menu, and load that by default. It isn't until you customize the sorting order, or delete or remove an item from the menu, that an actual menu is saved as a CPT. What do you think?

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I'm unsure why the static analysis check is failing 🤔

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getdave commented Jan 26, 2022

I'm unsure why the static analysis check is failing 🤔

I suspect it's unrelated but you could try running it locally to see if you get more error output.

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It's almost certainly my own fault #38235 🙈

Apologies, folks! Fix should land soon.

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I'll let this one sit overnight for any new thoughts before I land it.

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Alright, I'll land this one but be happy to follow up on anything.

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