From this summary regarding the to-do list
Fix the .org information architecture. Matt’s been asking repeatedly for the first three menu items to be Showcase, Plugins, Themes. Not News. Also flag the inconsistency between “Extend” as nav on .org vs. no mention of “extend” anywhere in wp-admin. Pick one, use it everywhere.
Navigation structure
Here's a proposal that includes the three items mentioned in the comment and that keep some of the existing nav groups.
- Showcase
- Plugins
- Themes
- Patterns
- Learn (Group)
- Learn WordPress
- Documentation
- Forums
- Developers
- WordPress.tv (external)
- Community (Group)
- Make WordPress
- Education
- Photo Directory
- Five for the Future
- Events
- Job Board (external)
- About (Group)
- About WordPress
- Enterprise
- Blocks
- Gutenberg (external)
- Swag Store (external)
- Openverse (external)
- Hosting
- News
The structure follows this logic:
- The first four items relate to ways of customizing and extending a WordPress site,
- the following three items (groups) gather information about WordPress that don't modify a site directly,
- and the last two items are informative approaches around WordPress.
From a content complexity point of view, I think that swapping the position of Plugins and Themes could also work. In that way, Showcase > Plugins > Themes > Patterns can be seen as diving into the elements that compose WordPress, from surface to deep levels.
Regardless of the above, here is a quick mockup of how this might look.
What do you think of this?
From this summary regarding the to-do list
Navigation structure
Here's a proposal that includes the three items mentioned in the comment and that keep some of the existing nav groups.
The structure follows this logic:
From a content complexity point of view, I think that swapping the position of Plugins and Themes could also work. In that way, Showcase > Plugins > Themes > Patterns can be seen as diving into the elements that compose WordPress, from surface to deep levels.
Regardless of the above, here is a quick mockup of how this might look.
What do you think of this?