WordPress.org Gets New Global Header and Footer Design
If you happened to be browsing WordPress.org on Sunday, you might have been in for a shock. The website got a bit of an upgrade. A partial one, at least, as developers implemented a new global header and footer across the site. This is the first stage of a longer-term overhaul of the site’s front end. Global header and footer sections on WordPress.org. Not everyone was ecstatic about the change, and there were at least some mobile-related issues. Some visitors could not close an open nav menu when browsing with mobile Safari, but that issue has since been addressed. Others, such as Support Team rep Steve Stern were concerned about the rollout. “It bothers me that changes like this are made with no notification,” he said over WordPress Slack in the #meta channel. “Yes, it’s on GH, but really, if you’re going to change the look/feel of support pages, it might be nice to drop a note in a place where the support team lives (or at least notify the team rep via DM or some Slack message). I can’t patrol forum messages, Slack, and things hidden in a repo about mu-plugins.” His criticism of keeping track of things is…
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