Suggestions and notes

  • Just a quick note to start… all of the following points are based off the SVN build of WordPress 2.5-RC2 as of 03/27/08 at 2:30 PM (EST).

    ##Manage -> Links
    – Option to order by date added
    – Have UI remember users ordering preference

    ##Write -> Post
    – Page templates for posts? If this already exists, it’s not showing up for me in 2.5-RC2.
    – I agree with many others about the layout of the page for writing new posts. Categories and tags need to be more visible.
    – The date field doesn’t fit properly across the column, and splits onto two lines. Is this new? I don’t remember it showing for a brand new post before. Personally, hide that and provide a link that displays it if a user wants to manually set a date. Most people want it set to “now”.
    – It may be just this build, but the UI seems to keep forgetting my preferences on the Write -> Post page… all the sub-sections keep opening up.

    ##Manage -> Media Library
    – Button to add media directly to the library. Right now, I go in as if to create a new post, add whatever media I’d like, hit save, and it then skip away from the post. This adds the media to the library without an associated post. This should be much easier.

    ##Search (Front-end)
    – Can we not have a set of preferences for the search function that allows up to specify what should and shouldn’t be searched? ie. Posts, Pages, Links, etc.?

    ##Dashboard
    – The ability to drag and reorganize dashboard modules would be nice
    – The Right Now bar is great, but why not allow a user to choose what buttons go there? A quick launch, of sorts. I’d personally prefer “Write a New Link” over “Write a New Page”, but that’s just me… everyone’s different.
    – The Right Now module displays the number of posts, pages, and drafts… what about links?
    – Visit Site link should open the site in a new tab/window, not the current one. This was the case previously… any reason for the change?

    ##Design
    – My vote on the order: Widgets, Themes, Theme Editor

    ##Settings -> Permalinks
    – It’d be nice to be able to set a custom permalink to the “Links” archive.

    ##Misc.
    – Has anyone mentioned relative dates (ie. Posted 4 days ago)? It’d be nice to have that built-in, rather than having to rely on a third-party plugin.
    – An activity log of sorts that keeps track of what’s done on the back-end? This allows an admin to take a quick peek and see what the other users are doing. Maybe someone already has a plugin that handles this? If so, I’d love to know about it.

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  • Thread Starter joe-b

    (@joe-b)

    And yes, I know this isn’t the best place to post this kind of stuff, but I don’t know how that’d work if I submitted it on the mailing list. ??

    I pretty much agree with everything you said.

    Send your feedback to [email protected] as well!

    ##Manage -> Media Library
    – Button to add media directly to the library. Right now, I go in as if to create a new post, add whatever media I’d like, hit save, and it then skip away from the post. This adds the media to the library without an associated post. This should be much easier.

    Yeah, I mentioned that because it seems like a no brainer to be able add media in the place where you can manage media. I was told that it wasn’t needed because you can already add media during your posts. Sigh.

    And I totally agree on the dashboard thing. I got a Dashboard Editor plugin, but that only lets’ me delete modules. I’d prefer to be able to move my modules around.

    Thirding the suggestion to have “add media” available on the Manage – Media Library page. Maybe I’m just weird in how I think, but that seemed like a more intuitive place to have it than on the posting page. Why not have it in both places, so people with either worldview will be able to find it?

    (And yes, I know, it’s no longer beta. Still, surprises me that this was kept this way in the final version.)

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