jabecker

I’m really torn on that question. On the one hand,I appreciate clear communication. On the other hand,I hate to start over again getting votes from people who may think they’ve
already voted. Leave it, I guess.

How can we get more people to vote when it’s so hard to find? I’d like to see the WP.com users vote too.

gambit37 – maybe what I wrote in the trac ticket? It was fairly succinct.

Please see this discussion also: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/169595

Thank you, all. The best approach now, I think, is to gather the troops and vote. If hordes of people vote for the change, surely it can’t be ignored? I’m hoping that wp.com users will come over and vote, too. They are affected as much as we are, and cannot even resort to hacks to make it usable again.

On the other hand, I was very careful to open the Trac ticket as a requested enhancement of a future release, not a show-stopping bug needing urgent fixing. So I’m having a hard time seeing why it was deemed “not ideal for trac.”

KJToo – I really doubt that it was Matt Mullenweg as I have a hard time believing he even has time to read many blogs, let alone post on them. I’ve been around the interwebs for a long time, and I have a pretty thick skin. To those who think my blog is ugly I say – then use a reader if you want to read it plain. And if you don’t want to read it that’s just fine by me.

Ah, well. I occurs to me that perhaps he followed the link to my blog and found it ugly. I guess my feelings should be hurt but I’m having a hard time caring.

Yeah, it usually does. But his isn’t. Weird.

You might want to try searching the forum.

You have to be logged in for the edit button to show up.

rforster –> DL, saved in my admin folder, started a new post. As soon as I tabbed from the title, got “Draft Saved at 9:40:58 am.” Just below the Save and Publish buttons.

I didn’t make any changes to that part of it. That’s just how 2.5 works.

Len K – You should still work on your drag ‘n’ drop functionality man! That’d be cool.

I absolutely agree with this! It’s nice to have stuff back in the sidebar, but even better would be the ability to put it where I want it.

I’m afraid my mad codr skilz (ha ha) do not extend to making this a plugin, although that would be wonderful! I’d be happy to see someone do that.

In the meantime, I have opened https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/6709 and attached the combined changes. So please voice your support and hopefully this will get added in soon. Personally, I’d hate to have to make this hack every time there’s a new version.

OK. Let’s try this one more time, now. I think this will work. Please someone try it out and see. Thanks.

pic: https://www.persistentillusion.com/new-pic-post.jpg

files: https://www.persistentillusion.com/wp-2-5-show-draft-title.zip

As always, please backup first and use at your own risk.

Skip that. It didn’t work. I’m going to remove the link but it won’t let me edit my post.

I know this has already been resolved, but just in case you come back, the plugin Lightview will do this.

I’m using version 1.5.3 and still having performance issues.

I unchecked Meta Keyword –> Automatically included in header

And that has helped a lot.