ericr23

Another challenge I see is that I’d want to get the number of posts so I know when I’m on the last page, but that means a query has to be done once to get the number of posts and then again with the offset and posts_per_page. So it would seem a better choice to offset and limit the While loop perhaps (which I’m not sure how to do: can each $post be called by $pageposts[n]?)?

Thanks for the guidance, Otto.

It’s what I thought might be required. I’ll tackle it when I have more time and report back with any success.

One question right away, though: How to pass the page information? I.e., how to tell each query which page number it’s on?

I fixed it. The link above is updated.

Otto, I understand your frustration but not your impatience.

I don’t know how representative I am of “advanced” WP users, but as much as I’d love to, I don’t have time to try out alpha and beta versions and participate in noting bugs or missteps.

Until 2.5, the experience of upgrades has been overwhelmingly positive, and thus we have trusted and respected the developers and active testers.

So you might understand our frustration. WP 2.5 is a clear step forward in coding sophistication and elegance, but the Write page is a shocking step backward in usability and efficiency. (It would be a step forward to go back.)

(Another lost functionality appears to be the ability to type and enter an existing category name in the Add form to quickly select it — a great undocumented trick when you’ve got more than 15 or so categories to scroll through.)

You can bet a lot more of us will indeed be more involved in testing from now on.

Beyond that, as a couple people have suggested in this thread, the problem seems to be conflicting needs of wordpress.com and www.ads-software.com users.

You can create a “Countries” category and make the individual countries children of it. If that’s what you’re asking.

Try the 2.30 beta version.

Yes, the “Update Permalinks” function seems to be taken care of with the “Save” button.

I’ve edited 2.5’s edit-form-advanced.php to make writing posts more efficient. Here’s a screen shot.

I had added the $saveasdraft (“Save and Continue”) button, but it did not behave correctly.

Click here for a copy. BACK UP THE ORIGINAL FILE FIRST! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Reports of improvements are very welcome.

I did not alter any other file (i.e., CSS files), using only local style directives. I still can’t stand the media uploader, but it is not used much on our high-volume blog.

To move back to 2.3.3, I just copied all the 2.3.3 files back in to the directories. BUT USERS CAN NO LONGER LOG IN. The passwords are no longer usable, so you have to restore them in MySQL Admin (or however you might access the database). Instructions are here. I only had 5 users to reset (and only a couple of them actually active), but it would be rather tedious for a much larger number.

Another major complaint my editor had was not having drafts listed on the Write page.

Sapphire nails my perception. The new admin appears to be for casual bloggers does not consider high-volume blogs. Our site includes a few active blogs. I reverted to 2.3.3 for the high-volume one, because that editor found himself having to expend more scrolls and clicks in 2.5, significantly slowing him down (and he doesn’t have to use the uploader much).

For the others (one or so posts per day or so), I moved and edited a few things in edit-form-advanced.php.

I still hate the uploader hijacking the page. And when I click to insert the code there’s a brief moment of panic about where the cursor might have been when.

I just noticed that when the post is autosaved, a Preview This Post button appears above the publish status. If I do a manual save, though, I am taken out of the write window and to the (unpublished) post. Going back and forth that way is highly unproductive compared with going between two separate tabs/windows, i.e., the write window and the preview (which you can reload after each manual save — e.g., to check a table or list layout).

Add my vote against the category placement. I don’t see any benefit to having the publish status where the categories were. And if categories must be beneath the edit pane, then they should at least be above the tags. I do like the ability right there to create a new category within the hierarchy.

And add my vote against the pop-up uploader. Besides the delay, it prevents doing anything else on the page until it’s done. It’s nice to have the progress bar, though.

One more thing that I don’t think anyone’s mentioned here, and it’s the most irritating: After publishing a new post, 2.5 takes you to your site instead of providing a fresh write window. This is a terribly presumptuous time waster.

Whoops: question. Is this a bug, or something I’ve done wrong?

Here’s the searchform code:

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">
<input type="text" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id=s>
<br><input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search">
</form>

Obviously, I could just put in the URL instead of using bloginfo(), but it would be nice to know why it’s not going to the URL with ‘www’ as it’s entered in the options.

I had to put a php.ini file with the settings in the wp-admin directory.

Since I’m on dial-up, I haven’t tested whether that’s the only necessary location or if the one I have in the uploads directory is also needed. I do know that the latter alone did not work.

My blog is in a subdirectory of my site, so WP’s behavior in this regard may be different.