A teeny, tiny little rant about changes in #WordPress core that affect users and onboarding plugins- it's not all about Dev's ya know!

Quote from a contributor in Post Status slack: "It's most likely just an oversight, it was shipped as part of the Plugin Dependencies project, it was not a change that was shipped on its own. And we all missed it during Beta since it wasn't announced, only Plugin Dependencies were announced"

Also, this goes beyond an onboarding. Any plugin that adds an admin panel, you don't even see the admin panel until a refresh is done. So it is super confusing. You think: what do I do next?

The biggest SEO plugin cannot even style the wizard when they finally get there.

I agree, the fact that it doesn’t reload the page like it always has done is horrible. I noticed it today while recording course content and thought I was crazy or had an environment issue - nope! Revert this ASAP. Glad but also surprised it was an oversight

A really good point

This definitely feels like a yikes moment and should be reverted. We’ve been playing on tough grounds with average joe users a lil more than few years now in wp. Hope we don’t add on to it anymore 😵‍💫

A fair point. Even as a dev I would prefer it if there was some AJAX hook that would add the plugin’s custom menu to the WP dashboard. A plugin being active, to me, means it is able to be interacted with. But it’s only active once the page is refreshed.

Very well articulated and I agree this isn’t good for users or plugin builders