Admin Page: no option to bulk activating / deactivating modules

[jeherve]

In the current version of Jetpack, you can go to Jetpack > Settings in your dashboard and activate or deactivate all modules at once, thanks to the bulk editing options.

In Jetpack 4.3, you have 2 options:

1. You can disable JavaScript in your browser while visiting the new Jetpack dashboard, and the old Settings screen will appear.
2. You can go to the old settings URL if you have it bookmarked (/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack_modules).

It would be nice to offer a quick access to those bulk editing options in the new Jetpack interface.

I can think of 2 ways to quickly add that option back, as a work-around:

1. Add a link to the old settings URL somewhere in the Jetpack dashboard; in the footer, for example.
2. Once the search feature will be available, include bulk editing capabilities to the search results page; one could search for "Appearance", and be able to activate / deactivate all Appearance related modules; A search for "all" could allow you to edit all modules at once.

[jeherve]

Thinking about this some more; if we can't implement this in 4.3, would it be possible to customize the existing search feature, and add "active" and "inactive" search keywords that would allow you to quickly see a list of active or inactive modules?

cc @dereksmart since you worked on Search.

[jessefriedman]

Would be good to investigate a new way to bulk change options by presenting the ability to turn on all "Engagement" or "Security" features, instead of all features at once, or cherry picking the ones you want. Which will allow us to continue the conversational flow around grouped features.

thoughts @dereksmart @jeffgolenski @MichaelArestad ?

[MichaelArestad]

That will likely exist in the next iteration. :)

[jeffgolenski]

@jessefriedman Definitely. And this goes waaaay back to some wireframes I created during our initial explorations late last year at the GM. Concepts are a little outdated in terms of UI, but still relevant.

[jessefriedman]

@jeffgolenski <3 it. We could probably just get rid of the Activate All and Deactivate All buttons there. And just have the Enable button enable them all at once.