Polish design of edit interfaces for meta in page inspector

[jameskoster]

As a part of the work in #59689 it would be nice to tidy up the edit interface for page meta data. These UIs looking a little rough around the edges, and the designs in 59689 call for some options like discussion and parent selection to move into the Summary panel.

Here's the current state of affairs:

• Slug Editor: Update post URL component #60632
• Page attributes: Page Inspector: Move page attributes UI to updated summary panel #61869
• Discussion
• Author
• Post status Post Editor: Update publish flow #60456

[jameskoster]

Status panel is being worked on in #60456.

[jameskoster]

Mockups for the other panels:

[ntsekouras]

@jameskoster what about the pingbacks & trackbacks in posts? How do they fit with the comments setting? You can see the current checkbox in post editor in posts.

[jameskoster]

It could live in the discussion popover as a checkbox for now, I suppose that would be least disruptive. But it might be too prominent there – seems like a setting more likely to be configured at the global level, and rarely overridden locally. We could consider placing it in the ellipsis menu down the road:

[ntsekouras]

It could live in the discussion popover as a checkbox for now,

What about the label of the button though? It can't just say comments open/closed, right?

Also there is the possibility that we only have the trackbaacks checkbox available and not the comments, if the post type supports only that..

[jameskoster]

Perhaps it moves to the ellipsis now, then :) It doesn't feel worthy of a main item in the summary panel to me, but happy to hear other opinions about that.

[jasmussen]

The only challenge with the ellipsis is whether that check enables the pingbacks/trackbacks, or whether it surfaces the toggle in the panel, ToolsPanel style. I'd agree on the emphasis, pingbacks is a bit of a vestigial thing, and I'd think it even something you set once in your reading settings and then have a default based on that. Honestly we can even surface the control in the panel based on those same reading settings.

[jameskoster]

The tools panel pattern here would be a little convoluted I think. The idea was that selecting the menu item basically worked the same as the current checkbox.

[ntsekouras]

I think we can close this issue now, no?

[jameskoster]

There's probably some minor polishing to do, but that can happen in individual issues / PRs 👍