A query for you people interested in this functionality:
I’m limited in a lot of ways by making this plugin strictly a plugin. I have to pull a lot of Javascript magic that, frankly, breaks in various mysterious ways in many environments. There’s been talk that “this is the way it should work in the core WordPress code” and I somewhat agree, but I’ve never gotten a definitive answer on how best to introduce functionality into the code base. The first time I asked was when I had my “paged comment editing” idea and the only response I got was from someone who recommended I make a plugin out of it and the rest fell into place.
So, I’ve been making these enhancements into plugins. In this case it’s less than optimum: I have to use Javascript which has limitations, I’m hampered by the core code’s dependence on the real loop for generating the post list so I can’t control all possibilities (e.g. order by post ID), by the time the plugin has a go at the query it’s all done, so if you’ve, for instance, paged past the end of something in a query I have to have an ugly “refresh to get posts” link instead of being able to correct it beforehand, etc.
Here’s my query: would there be interest in a version of the “plugin” that did more, did it better (read: without Javascript), but did it slightly outside the scope of a plugin? Meaning, you’d have to add a file to the wp-admin hierarchy. Note, disabling the plugin and getting back to the core installation would still be a matter of deactivating the plugin, the core files still wouldn’t change. This would merely be adding one to the list.
