benlk
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4 years ago This falls into two chunks: the editing interface and the output, with an optional-but-recommended performance enhancement.
- Editing interface: 4h
- form on term edit page containing color picker for background color
- form on term edit page containing color picker for text color
- can we rely on system/browser color pickers, or is there a WordPress-y way to do color picking?
- enabled for categories, series, and tags
- Caching for performance improvements: optional because of Cloudflare but recommented, 2-4h
- When a term is saved, updating this metadata, fire a WP_Cron event to cache in a transient the styles generated, using wp_schedule_single_event, so that this doesn't make the page-save navigation slower
- Generate styles by:
- running a WP_Term_Query with the
meta_keyargument set to the value of this term metadata key, - looping over all the terms, assembling a set of styles for each possible set of top-term markups that we'll need to style
- running a WP_Term_Query with the
- Output: <2h if pulling from transient, 2h if not
- Output appropriate styles from the transient (or generate them fresh) in a
<style>tag in the header.
- Output appropriate styles from the transient (or generate them fresh) in a
Need an estimate for the colored homepage category labels here: https://github.com/INN/umbrella-mstoday/issues/102
BUT with a UI ability for MSToday to select these for specific categories and choose a color.