Untangle the "Hosting" admin menu items

[Copons]

Important

Project Thread: pbxlJb-6ye-p2

• Review all the items and sub-items contained in the Hosting menu.
• Decide where to move each of them on a case-by-case basis.

Current Plan

To be confirmed

• Plans, Domains, Purchases: move to Global Site View.
• Marketing, Business Tool: audit conversions and decide afterwards.
• Connections: move to plugin.
• Sharing: move to plugin.
• Site Settings: move to Global Site View.

@lucasmendes-design is working on a refactor of the Dotcom IA that will help clarify some of these decisions.

Related

• Early design exploration: p9Jlb4-bf5-p2
• Site Settings exploration: pfsHM7-1nU-p2
• Hosting IA i1: p9Jlb4-eCp-p2

[richtabor]

Just confirming, Untangling My Home is #95386 is deprioritized.

[Copons]

Note: I've added Untangling Domains to the CtD board as a separate overview issue: https://github.com/Automattic/dotcom-forge/issues/8692

[ianstewart]

@Copons is there a broken down list of pieces or tasks yet to be done for this?

[Copons]

@ianstewart

• My Home
  • Lego started replacing it with the wp-admin dashboard (pbxlJb-6pu-p2)
  • The project was eventually deprioritized because of complexity and uncertainty on how it plays with other onboarding initiatives (e.g. the Global Launchpad).
• Overview
  • No action required: it already links to the site management panel.
• Plans
  • To be moved to the site management panel.
  • Not assigned.
• Add-ons
  • To be moved to the site management panel.
  • Not assigned.
• Domains
  • WIP by Nexus/Caribou/Nomado (pfuQfP-13x-p2).
• Emails
  • To be moved to the Global view.
  • Not assigned.
• Purchases
  • To be moved to the Global view and renamed as "Billing".
  • Not assigned.
• Marketing
  • Moved to the site management panel by Lego (behind feature flag)
• Site Settings
  • Moved to the site management panel by Lego (behind feature flag).

cc @taipeicoder @fushar

[ianstewart]

Should the above parts all be sub issues of this task?

[lucasmendes-design]

P2: pfsHM7-1s3-p2

[Copons]

Just to give a quick update on GH too: we have put this project on hold while we revisit design and IA of site-level dashboards.

[crisbusquets]

@Copons I'm keeping an eye on it, but please, let me know when we're ready to tackle this. Lucas is now on parental leave, so we'll have to find design resources (and Matt West is currently on Jetpack, at least for 3 months).

[ianstewart]

@matt-west @crisbusquets my understanding is that Matt West is active on this right now. His work is inclusive of Jetpack, A4A, and Dotcom dashboard (maybe others!). How close are we to wrapping feedback that will unblock us here?

[matt-west]

@ianstewart That’s correct. Some of this is blocked by the multi-site dashboards work which is still part of my focus.

I’m waiting on feedback from @mtias on the latest design iteration (p9Jlb4-fpU-p2). The main area I want to align on is whether this iteration goes far enough to differentiate between the hosting dashboard and WP Admin so users won’t get confused about where they are.

[ianstewart]

He's pretty busy this week (Hi, Matias if you read this) but I'm going to give him a quick ping to see if he's had a chance to review. (If not, we might not get feedback until the 18th in the Friday reviews.)

[Copons]

Update

@matt-west is revisiting the IA to accommodate the requested simplifications. We'll resume working on this as soon as the new designs are approved.

[matt-west]

Quick update to say that I’m still working on this. My current focus is the Plans and Add-ons pages. One those are done I’ll move on to Marketing.

[taipeicoder]

February 13 Update

The work has been resumed. We have started the project Untangling Calypso Settings i2 pbxlJb-6TO-p2, with an estimate of 3 weeks. I'll move this issue back to In Progress.