Stunning and Clean – Near 100%

  • First I want to say congratulations of producing a very nice user friendly admin theme. I have attempted this a couple of times, but did not take it a step further to submit to WordPress, and congrats on that effort to share the open source of this.

    Some gentle feedback that I personally felt when I installed for the first time and my feelings when I looked around the admin area.

    My initial thought was this is really clean, good use of grey, sleek and sophisticated. Then when I opened the admin menu’s on the left I was a bit confused at first because my user experience since I have been groomed the WordPress way is that when a parent menu is open I am presented with clarity that it has child menu’s. This is not so apparent on Slate.

    If I were to tweak Slate here is what I would do on the active menu and the child container: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fh5829h1m0yd0kq/Screenshot%202014-10-18%2018.04.37.png?dl=0

    For the new page/post sidebar 2 I would pull that inner shadow back to 0.4% rather than the 5% you have now since the complete admin interface has no shadows and presents sleek, sharp, modern flat and shadow free.

    Here is the code I style I edited for that sidebar:

    #poststuff #post-body.columns-2 #side-sortables, .comment-php #submitdiv {
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(left, #dad9d9 0%, #eeecec 0.4%, #eeecec 100%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(left, #dad9d9 0%, #eeecec 0.4%, #eeecec 100%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, #dad9d9 0%, #eeecec 0.4%, #eeecec 100%);
background-image: linear-gradient(to right, #dad9d9 0%, #eeecec 0.4%, #eeecec 100%);
}

    And what the admin looks like after I add a touch of salt to the perfect steak.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsn4obl7l9w8zov/Screenshot%202014-10-18%2018.13.44.png?dl=0

    Hopefully these minor updates make it to the next release of updates. I respect if you decide these are not something that enhances Slate. I will just have to edit the css on each site I use it on.

    Let me buy you a beer, where is the donate link to get a beer on your table to have with this fine cut steak?

    Ciaran

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  • Plugin Author ryansommers

    (@ryansommers)

    Hey Ciaran,

    Thanks for the thoughtful feedback and taking the time, much appreciated ??

    My feelings about the left hand sub menu: I felt like the bright orange main menu title and the bold white selected sub menu made them stand out enough to not lose usability. One of my primary focuses was reducing visual clutter, and I felt adding background colors like your mockup worked against that.

    Regarding the shadows: I know, shadows feel a little old school. I went back and forth on this a lot while designing it. In the end, I felt the shadows (on the left menu background and the right sidebar background) separated and elevated the main content editor, which is what I wanted. A subtle way to indicated to the user where to focus.

    I’ll keep playing around with both items as I make updates to the plugin, so you never how how it’ll evolve. Again though, really appreciate the feedback!

    A beer sounds great ?? I’ll add a donate link in the next update, but for now this should work: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=B997X7RTSGWG2

    Thread Starter cmwwebfx

    (@cmwwebfx)

    Do you have a repo so I can fork it for my own use? I see some issues with Slate and Custom post types that have custom meta boxes. I will like to fork this to remove the right box shadow, add my own has children state, and active item.

    Plugin Author ryansommers

    (@ryansommers)

    Yup, it’s on GitHub at https://github.com/ryansommers/slate

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