sophiegyo
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3 years ago I got super confused by this just today, it took me a couple of minutes to notice what was going on, until I realised it shows Browse Sites on wp-admin pages (eg: Links) and Switch Sites on Calypso pages. I clicked "Browse sites" and suddenly my 'add new site' button was gone. I was genuinely baffled!
Site type: Simple
Process:
- Be on a wp-admin page like Links.
- Click "Browse sites"
- No "add new site" button, and a different view of selecting sites than I was expecting
Screencast of my experience:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1398304/113932592-a4326c80-97a8-11eb-98c7-c8c03a319ca9.mov
Edit: the opening in new tab thing is only slightly irrelevant - it's doing that because the tab I was in is a pinned tab in Firefox, and it seems that switching from a wp-admin page to a Calypso page triggers a new tab from the pinned tab; it's behaviour I've seen with other pinned tabs, so it's a browser thing but definitely partially to do with the change between wp-admin and Calypso.
Browser: Firefox 85.0.2 OS: Mojave 10.14.6 (don't judge, I'll upgrade eventually)
This is a tracking issue for a v2 feature of Nav Unification.
Adding the Site Switcher to wp-admin was deemed out-of-scope for v1 by stakeholders. Instead we show a Browse Sites button that links to the full page site switcher. The difference has been spotted by a few folks and keeps getting reported. We'll use this issue so folks know it's on our radar and we don't loose track of it after launching v1.