New Theme - Remove "all" or "any" from "Level" dropdown.

[StevenDufresne]

Description

When I click through on a level from a card, I get to this page: https://learn.wordpress.org/?wporg_lesson_level=advanced. When I open the level menu, I get an "all" and also an "any" option. I don't know how these differ.

I don't see that behavior on https://learn.wordpress.org/lessons/?post_type=lesson&wporg_lesson_level=advanced.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (optional)

Please list the steps needed to reproduce or verify the feedback. For example:

1. Go to https://learn.wordpress.org/?wporg_lesson_level=beginner
2. Open the "Level" menu

Screenshots or screen recording (optional)

[adamwoodnz]

'Any' is an existing level, while 'All' is added to allow clearing the filter, the same as other WordPress.org sites, eg. Pattern Directory:

I agree there needs to be some clean up to remove the 'Any' value.

[adamwoodnz]

@kathrynwp is this something you could help with? Not sure whether it should be done at launch to avoid modifying the existing site, or whether we can start now.

[kathrynwp]

Hi @adamwoodnz @StevenDufresne - Ah, I see how this is a bit confusing.

The "Any" value actually does have a specific meaning. It's been used for courses which don't require specific WordPress knowledge, which mostly applies to Community team-related courses. So it seems like it's still needed?

So the way I understand the meanings are:

Any - "Course is suitable to learners with any WordPress level"

All - "View all courses"

Perhaps we could just change "All to "All courses" and "Any" to "Any level" – what do you think?

[adamwoodnz]

Perhaps we could just change "All to "All courses" and "Any" to "Any level" – what do you think?

There are cases where the content type is mixed (for example in Steve's screenshot above), so I think just 'All' is better for consistency.

I understand the meaning, but for me if a Course doesn't have a level set then it is somewhat implied that it is for 'Any', and it will show up when 'All' is selected. I wonder how useful the 'Any' term is in practice. The fact that we would consider naming it 'Any level' within a control named 'Level' I think reflects that it is a confusing concept.

[westnz]

Hey folks If I understand correctly, you will still see the courses suitable to learners with any WordPress level when you select 'All.' Having two terms is also a bit confusing to me. I would, therefore, also suggest just having 'All' and removing 'Any.'

[kathrynwp]

Courses - I manually unassigned the "Any" level from the handful of Community courses that had it assigned.

Lessons - I don't see any lessons assigned to "Any."

Looks like the 16 pieces of content that are still assigned to the "Any" level are all Lesson Plans. Since that content type is deprecated, I propose that we just go ahead and delete the "Any" level from the back end here, unless there's a reason not to:

https://learn.wordpress.org/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=level&post_type=lesson-plan

EDIT: I just noticed that if you remove the "Any" level from a lesson plan, as I did on one sample lesson plan it leaves a blank space on the single lesson plan, since these were designed to include a level:

Taken at: https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson-plan/what-is-w3-total-cache/

[adamwoodnz]

Looks like the 16 pieces of content that are still assigned to the "Any" level are all Lesson Plans. Since that content type is deprecated, I propose that we just go ahead and delete the "Any" level from the back end here, unless there's a reason not to:

https://learn.wordpress.org/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=level&post_type=lesson-plan

EDIT: I just noticed that if you remove the "Any" level from a lesson plan, as I did on one sample lesson plan it leaves a blank space on the single lesson plan, since these were designed to include a level:

Yeah I agree, and I don't think the empty space is big deal, but we could conditonally render these fields.

[kathrynwp]

@adamwoodnz Just let me know if you think I should go ahead and delete the "Any" level, in this case! And I could also open a new issue for the conditional logic.

[adamwoodnz]

@adamwoodnz Just let me know if you think I should go ahead and delete the "Any" level, in this case! And I could also open a new issue for the conditional logic.

Yes please for both!

[kathrynwp]

The "Any" experience level is now gone.

I created an issue to make it conditional in #2737 – I set it for the post-launch milestone, since Lesson plans are not linked in the new navigation.

Closing, but feel free to reopen if anyone spots something else related!