WordPress 3.0 Nav Menu UI Update

I just recognized, that the Nav Menu UI of WordPress 3.0 got updated. Here are 2 screenshots from the trunk:

WordPress 3.0 Nav Menu UI

WordPress 3.0 Nav Menu UI


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16 responses to “WordPress 3.0 Nav Menu UI Update”

  1. Syed Balkhi Avatar

    Man, I think I liked the older version better. They could create tabbing but not this way. The tabs should’ve stayed the way it was before. All it needed was a little styling.

    O well. Will get used to of it.

  2. George Burley Avatar
    George Burley

    Whoever came up with this UI should be fired. It doesn’t scale, it’s clunky. Bad bad bad. Although I’m happy Menus will make 3.0, it will do so with a nasty UI.

  3. Ben Huson Avatar

    Your screengrabs above are a good illustration how unscalable the UI is. What if I have a third menu?

  4. Luke Rumley Avatar

    Excited. Hope this gets included, rough edges and all.

  5. Banago Avatar

    Just noticed it too. What is this WP trend of having the sidebar on the left – it is on the right everywhere else 🙂

  6. Slobodan Kustrimovic Avatar

    @Ben Huson – When there isn’t enough room for the tabs the whole thing will go bellow the “left sidebar” options.

    I tried to move that sidebar options to be horizontal so it would look better and be easier to use but they can only be aligned vertically. So, i’m not a big fan of this interface.

    But few css changes and jquery improvements here and there and it would be a lot better 🙂

  7. JhezeR Avatar

    Not bad but i think i like the 2.9 version nav menu..

  8. matt mcinvale Avatar

    in the rare instances that i’ll use this, it will fill a much needed gap in cms functionality. i have it up on a development site and it’s working quite well.

  9. […] Well, to be honest i hate the way how they did it. Hopefully it will be much better in the final release. You can take a look at few screenshots in the latest post on wpengineer. […]

  10. Christopher Avatar

    Very clunky looking, as compared to say Joomla’s menu manager. Also I tried creating a menu item and dragging it to the first position and took forever. It keep trying to become a sub menu item, or dragging between items is a challenge as well. Their should be an arrow to push items up, down, or numbers.

    Hopefully this is more focused on functionality before they focus on usability.

  11. eavasi Avatar

    That´s what I was looking for! Thank you so much! I’m waiting for WordPress 3.0 with bated breath!!! )))

  12. Ryan McCue Avatar

    Please note: This is beta, and will be changed before 3.0 is released. There’s a large notice in the admin to this effect, but it has been cropped out by the looks of it.

  13. ocean90 Avatar

    As Ryan says, it’s beta.

    The screens doesn’t show the final UI, it has been changed the night, so the final UI will look like this: http://grab.by/45b2

  14. Michael Avatar

    Thanks ocean90 !

  15. eric Avatar
    eric

    GAH! WHY DON’T I SEE THIS IN MY BACKEND!!!
    https://wpengineer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/edit-menu-item.jpg