New enhancement - Top/preheader toolbar

[paaljoachim]

Hey

It would be nice to have a preheader toolbar area. To add specials, social menu or other things. Thanks.

[nielslange]

Isn't that something that can easily be achieved via child theme or plugin, e.g. https://wordpress.org/plugins/top-bar

[mafzal9]

For cover page there should be an option to chose image overlay color in page.

[carolinan]

@omphs are you not able to find the option in the customizer?

It has its own section, it is not under colors.

[mafzal9]

@omphs are you not able to find the option in the customizer?

It has its own section, it is not under colors.

yeah i changed the color using customizer. But it's a suggestion that if it could be in every page section then user have more flexibility to generate multi color pages.

[nielslange]

@omhps Would you mind creating a separate issue for this as it's not related to New feature suggestion - Top/preheader toolbar. 😀

[mafzal9]

@omhps Would you mind creating a separate issue for this as it's not related to New feature suggestion - Top/preheader toolbar. 😀

Sure @nielslange

[paaljoachim]

Hey Niels. @nielslange Yes. It can be created with a child theme or a plugin. For users who decide on using the new default theme it would be good to go through and notice which features would be helpful to include. If it is supposed to be a bare bones theme then including extras such as a preheader/top bar should not be included. It goes back to the vision for the theme. Hopefully it will be a worthy theme and not one that is rushed and could use more time then it seems to be getting. One could always move the theme to WP 5.4 if that is needed to be sure that it gets the treatment it needs.

[nielslange]

@paaljoachim Thanks for your explanation. I see that @pattonwebz already added the label enhancement to this issue. Do you like to implement this feature and create a PR for it?

[paaljoachim]

Thanks @nielslange

I would like to but my skills are in the UI/design area not in coding. It also looks like it is too late.

[nielslange]

@paaljoachim While it's too late for Beta 1 it might not be too late for Beta 2. What about if you create the mockup and write down the requirements and I implement it? 😉

[paaljoachim]

The thought is here that we are adding widget areas to where we can place Gutenberg blocks. That means a preheader could have opening hours, social menu and other things that are needed. It could use a background color that should be easy to add.

I am working on a mockup to show how it can look.

[paaljoachim]

Here is an example.

[andersnoren]

Sorry guys, but this goes beyond post-beta fixes. I'm not saying having such an area would have been a bad idea, but we would have needed to have added it before the Beta 1 deadline.

[paaljoachim]

I would suggest asking for more time to improve the theme. The more I dig into it the more I also see it needs design improvement.

[nielslange]

@andersnoren That's why @pattonwebz labelled this issue as enhancement. Shouldn't we leave this issue open for later, in case we want to implement it once WP 5.3 had been shipped with Twenty Twenty?

[pattonwebz]

I am happy to reopen this and label it as a tracking issue for the future.

[pattonwebz]

I do feel like this kind of change is not something we should focus on during the beta 2 phase and if this is added it's likely to be added much later. Personally I feel like this is an idea child theme feature however let's keep discussions open if people have ideas to share or things to talk about :D

[paaljoachim]

Should I close the issue?