It's not currently possible for users to update their menus in the customizer without first verifying their email. This is true despite having pages often created by default and while it's possible to create pages on WP.com. Example …
Context: p58i-5gt-p2
And 118-gh-customization
Just confirming: this issue asks us to remove the email-verification constraint on the customizer
Correct. Though whether or not we should is another topic. @rickybanister Logging it here to start.
Yeah, I'd say making a site public is the only event we'd want to consider blocking on verification. Everything else we're doing just creates ridiculous UX issues.
Patch by @tjcafferkey in D49656-code.
Closed in D49656-code.
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Yeah, I'd say making a site public is the only event we'd want to consider blocking on verification. Everything else we're doing just creates ridiculous UX issues.