Menu Customizer

This plugin is a WordPress core feature-plugin and a former Google Summer of Code 2014 project. See the updates on Make WordPress Core for more information. The Menu Customizer adds custom menu management to the Customizer. It is not fully functional and in alpha development until further notice; please don't try to run it on a production site. The plugin requires WordPress 4.1 and PHP 5.3 or higher. It is mostly feature-complete and ready for testing, although there are known issues around working with submenus (try the reorder mode, not drag-and-drop for now). Adding menus items could use some work as well, and is likely to have scaling issues on sites with a large number of posts. Menu Customizer fixes some significant problems with the existing approach to menu management in core, particularly around scaling. Note that its scope carefully excludes fundamental changes with the menus paradigms; rather, the goal of this project is to modernize the menu management experience so that the UX can be iterated on more reasonably. Most importantly, Menu Customizer allows you to live-preview changes to your menus before they're published. If you're interested in contributing to this project, stay tuned to http://make.wordpress.org/core for updates, or ping @celloexpressions on WordPress core Slack. Core Patches Several improvements to the Customizer are also in the works as a part of this project, in the form of core patches (for example, the Panels API, and the still in=progress APIs for dynamically-added controls and sections). See Customizer posts on make/core for details.

See full details here: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/menu-customizer 0.2

• Leverage all of the new core Customizer API features that were developed in WordPress 4.1. 4.1 is required, and while we'll try to keep the plugin compatible with 4.1 for as long as possible, we may bump the requirement to 4.2-alpha eventually. Menu Customizer development was on hold while the 4.1 Customizer work happened; we'll pick things back up here now that the needed core APIs are mostly in place. If all goes well, depending on contributor interest and release timing, we may be able to propose Menu Customizer for core merge in WordPress 4.2.
• Adding new menus should work without a page refresh now.
• Menu item controls are rendered from JS templates now, both on init and when they're added dynamically. This should further improve performance and scalability, and is also generally awesome.
• While not particularly relevant given the other changes, compatibility fixes for WordPress 4.1 (including a fatal error) were also made.
• Props to @westonruter for making a couple of quick passes through the code and contributing patches to clean up the new JS implementation.

0.1

• Extensive code cleanup.
• First pass at sub-menus, via the buttons in the "reorder" mode.
• Panel tweaks to sync with changes in WordPress core.
• End of GSoC coding period.

0.0.6

• Implement live-previewing of menus and menu items.
• Use core templating functions in JS.
• Visual improvements to the add-menu-items panel, with scrolling contained within available-item-type sections. More to come here on the code side.

0.0.5

• Add/delete Menus
• Menu item & menu data is now saved in a scalable way.

0.0.4

• Add-menu-items
• Use panels

0.0.3

• Initial commit.