Add Short Name as admin settings field alongside Site Title

[westonruter]

The web app manifest removed the short_name because it was not reliable to automatically generate: #201

In order to avoid a site having to add a web_app_manifest filter to supply the short_name, what if a new Short Name field is added after the Site Title:

This field could be hidden until the Site Title field has more than 12 characters in it.

[iandunn]

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My first instinct is that it's not worth adding an extra option for this, but I do like your idea about hiding the field if the name is < 12 characters.

I'd probably still lean towards requiring devs to use a filter or something though, or letting a plugin add that field, rather than putting it in Core though.

[AdelDima]

I agree with @iandunn, for me, I added a short name and name on Customizer settings, this way theme/plugin user can find all PWA options in one place for more simplicity.

[westonruter]

Here's a prototype mini plugin which implements this Short Name UI on the general settings screen: https://gist.github.com/westonruter/dec7d190060732e29a09751ab99cc549

[westonruter]

This issue comes up over and over again in the support forums, so clearly there needs to be a UI to manage this. I'm adding it to the 0.7 milestone.

[pooja-muchandikar]

QA Passed ✅

• Short Name filed is available in General Settings

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• If Site title is lengthy then short name is displayed on phone's Add to home screen
  

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• If Short Name filter is added via plugin then the field appears disabled

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• If Shortname is added then site health screen shows it as passed

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• If short name is not added then site health shows error and a link general settings to add short name

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[morsssss]

+1 to adding this new field. My WP experience is limited, but I'm helping a local news site called "Montclair Local" to make some fixes to their brand new site. The plugin shortened the name to "MntclrLclNws". I realized this plugin was generating the web app manifest, I found and installed Weston's helpful gist, and I fixed the name. Many others would never figure out how to do this.

[westonruter]

@morsssss This should be available the latest version of the plugin, so I don't think you need the gist anymore.