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Dark mode functionality - by Claude #1022

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@draganescu draganescu commented Mar 6, 2025

Playful attempt at adding #553

Summary

  • Introduces a new dark mode feature to WordPress Studio with system, light, and dark theme
    options
  • Enhances UI components to properly support both light and dark themes
  • Ensures consistent styling across modals, forms, buttons, and content areas

Details

This PR implements a comprehensive dark mode solution for the WordPress Studio application:

New Features

  • Theme Switcher: Users can choose between light, dark, or system-based theme
  • Persistent Preferences: Selected theme preference is saved and restored between sessions
  • System Integration: "System" option follows the user's OS dark/light mode preference

UI Enhancements

  • Complete Theme Coverage: All UI components support dark mode styling
  • Modal Support: Fixed dark mode rendering for modals and dialogs
  • Form Elements: Enhanced input fields, dropdowns, and buttons for dark mode
  • Content Areas: Improved readability of text, tables, and content in dark mode

Technical Implementation

  • Added Tailwind dark mode support using the 'class' strategy
  • Created a ThemeModeProvider context to manage theme state
  • Implemented icons for theme selection (sun, moon, system)
  • Added body.dark selectors to ensure proper styling for detached DOM elements
  • Enhanced scrollbars, form elements, and interactive components with dark mode styles

Accessibility

  • Ensured proper contrast ratios throughout the UI in dark mode
  • Maintained focus states and interactive element highlighting
  • Preserved readability of all text elements in both themes

Technical Details

The implementation uses Tailwind's dark mode with the 'class' strategy, applying a 'dark'
class to the root element when dark mode is active. For elements that may be appended to the
document body (like modals), we've implemented both .dark and body.dark selectors to ensure
consistent styling.

Theme preference is stored in the app's user preferences system via IPC calls to ensure
persistence across sessions.

Testing

  • Verified proper rendering in light, dark, and system theme modes
  • Tested user preference persistence across app restarts
  • Ensured all UI components maintain proper styling in dark mode
  • Confirmed system theme changes are properly detected and applied

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Screenshot 2025-03-07 at 01 08 30

- Create ThemeModeProvider for managing light/dark/system theme preferences
- Implement user preferences storage in user data
- Add dark mode styles for UI components in Tailwind and CSS
- Create theme toggle control in user settings panel
- Support system theme preference detection
- Create custom theme icons since the sun and moon icons aren't available in @wordpress/icons
- Add missing getUserPreference and saveUserPreference methods to IPC API interface
This commit improves dark mode styling throughout the app, with a focus on:

1. Fixed modal styling for Add Site modal by adding body.dark selectors
2. Enhanced form controls with proper dark mode colors for text inputs, borders, and placeholder text
3. Improved site form elements in dark mode including folder icons, help text, and borders
4. Added dark mode support for button variants to ensure proper styling in all contexts
5. Fixed text colors and contrast ratios for better readability in dark mode

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>
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Screenshot 2025-03-07 at 6 05 26 AM

Not sure I like the background color too much but I guess it works for people that like Dark mode. cc @matt-west for design input.

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We should probably remove that file, I'm not sure we should be adding the config files/intructions for all the AIs at the moment.


export const ThemeModeProvider = ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => {
const [themeMode, setThemeModeState] = useState<ThemeMode>('system');
const [isDarkMode, setIsDarkMode] = useState(false);
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It might worth consolidating theme state with language state at some point instead of local state that is spread between multiple Providers/hooks.

Ideally all the preferences are handled in the same low level abstraction/way.

It's fine to be a follow-up I would say but let's not let this kind of thing slip.

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export default TextControlComponent;
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Why? :)

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why?

.dark .assistant-markdown hr {
border-top: 1px solid theme( 'colors.gray.700' );
}

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Feels like there's a lot of CSS overrides for dark mode, I wonder if there's a way to avoid all of that by using CSS variables.

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Heavy +1. These CSS overrides will be incredibly difficult to maintain as we add new features. It also makes it harder to introduce new themes in the future (i.e. high contrast, custom user themes).

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const window = await getMainWindow();
return window.isFullScreen();
}

export async function getUserPreference( _event: IpcMainInvokeEvent, key: string ): Promise< unknown > {
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I'm not sure we need these two functions or the nested "preferences" key. For the "locale", there's no nested "preferences" key, so I think we should just map what we're doing for the user's "locale".

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I noticed that some modals apply dark mode (add site) but others don't (edit site, user preferences, connect site)

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Screenshot 2025-03-07 at 6 43 11 AM

The AI chat inputs are not great.

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youknowriad commented Mar 7, 2025

Preview sites table

Screenshot 2025-03-07 at 6 44 07 AM Screenshot 2025-03-07 at 6 45 26 AM

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Thanks for the ping @youknowriad!

I did some explorations into how dark mode could look a while back. These aren’t complete, but gives an idea of the direction we were headed.
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The most important thing is to implement this in a way that’s easy to maintain and scalable if we want to add other themes in the future (high contrast, custom user themes, etc.).

I agree with @youknowriad that we need to create a set of CSS variables that define a theme, and then use those to set colors for each component within the app. Ideally this integrates with theming in @wordpress/components once that's in place.

@crisbusquets crisbusquets added the Needs Design This issue requires some UI/UX work. label Mar 7, 2025
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Thanks for jumping in and putting together this proposal, @matt-west! 🙌

@draganescu, what’s the best way for design to stay ahead of these issues? I’ve added the Needs design label, but we should be looped in earlier whenever a project impacts a flow or the UI. Open to suggestions on how we can improve this!

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@matt-west @crisbusquets thanks for lending a hand. This is a draft PR I did exclusively by spending tokens - Riad looped you in, which is good, I'd have done it once the PR was not a draft anymore. PRs don't have to land - e.g. in this one what interests me is the feature mechanism but there is a lot of cleanup to do.

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