Terrible Workflow

  • WordPress is almost as good as FrontPage was when Microsoft discontinued it. Seriously, why does WP use such a terrible workflow? For example: To edit pages you have to click All Pages every time, wait for the list page to load, select the page you want and wait again (even on a local server this is a terrible workflow). Why not just have a flyout with all the pages listed, like a basic menu does? I mean, come on!!! This is archaic. WP has all kinds of things that take the “long way around”.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    The toolbar at the top has an “edit page” link so always have a link to edit the current page.

    Trick for using the “all pages” starting place — right click on “edit” and select “open in new tab”.

    As a note from another point of view…

    For some sites that I manage, that would not work at all. I’ve got one site that has around 50 pages, 450 posts, and ~500,000 custom posts broken up into 6 custom post types. Imagine trying to load all of that into flyout menus every time you load an admin page… Not only would the menus be ridiculously huge, the admin side of things would grind to a halt trying to process that on every page load.

    Yes, I do know that’s a (very) extreme case, but even for a site that has 100 posts/pages/etc, which is easy to do in even a small blog, that’s a massive overhead that will just make the menus very cluttered.

    Steves sugestion is by far the best. If you need to edit page, go to that page on the site and hit the ‘Edit’ button in the admin bar.

    Sam

    (@samrobert149)

    It often happens and its really not cool. Sometimes the session breaks while editing and you have to reload the page to update the page. I hope WordPress will do something about that.

    @samrobert149 it appears your problem is different than the original problem stated. When you reload, does it keep your edits? If so, I’d say WordPress is working great! A session that breaks isn’t always caused by WordPress, so if WordPress saves your edits when the break happens, that’s awesome!

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