WP Wishlist

  • A couple things I would like to see…
    Admin Area

    1. An admin panel which can be configured easily to how the user wants it to look.
    2. The ability to turn off some parts of WP. For instance, Links and the “WordPress Bookmarklet” portion at the bottom of the post page. Not everyone uses them.
    3. Easier intergration of pinging Blogrolling and other blog services. Ie. a field to enter urls of addition services to ping, instead of having to hack up php files to get it to work.
    4. A working upload script
    5. A category drop down list on the post page instead of check boxes. For those of us that have a lot of categories it gets to be a long column that scrolls down into the “WordPress Bookmarklet” area. Which makes things look rather messy.
    6. In the edit menu, instead of listing the title and the entire entry, just list the title, and to edit the entry, click on the title. As it is right now, it’s extremely messy and cumbersome
    7. Have the “View Site” button open the site in a new window
    8. Have the admin area rely less on CSS based buttons. And have basic menu links or a graphical menu
    9. On the post page and advanced editing page, place “Save” “Publish”, etc buttons at the bottom. It doesn’t make any sense having the “upload image”, “trackback” and “edit timestamp” regions below the buttons that publish a post.
    10. Intead of having an “advanced editing” button on the post page, an option under options for ‘ “Advanced Editing” on or off’ would be better. Sure it’s only one click for each post. But, if you have to do it for every post, it gets to be a pain
    11. On the post page, if you’re going to have a field for an except, might as well go the whole-9 and have a field of an extended entry also — Or make an <!–excerpt–> tag so that text prior to it is considered an excerpt.
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  • you guys should chill yo! ??

    Mister X is right. I see no reason to slam someone for simply providing a list of wishes for WP. It is my understanding that WP wouldn’t be what it is without them. I read no offensive “tone” in OrbitJuice’s post, nor any malicious intent.

    Excellent ideas, OJ!
    I’m particularly fond of numbers 3 and 6 myself ??

    Points 1 and 8 are not compatible.
    Using CSS is the key to making the admin area quite customisable. If the admin area relied less on CSS, you would have to edit the PHP files to make your changes. Do you want to apply these changes on any given new release, or just backup your wp-admin.css?
    Point 2 is a non-issue.
    If you want to disable some features for users who may never use them, you are free to distribute a “WordPress Lite” flavour of WP, as long as it’s released under the GPL.
    The changes to make these areas disappear would be trivial, but really do we need one more configuration option to save 120px of text and 50px of menu link? ??
    Point 3 is coming, though not in this fashion.
    After all, what about the services that do not use the weblogs.com ping format?
    Point 4 is not a wishlist item, it’s a required fix.
    You can help with that by testing and reporting just what goes wrong, how it goes wrong, and in which situation. This is applicable to other areas of WP, of course.
    Point 5 is also a matter of accessibility.
    Multiple-lines, multiple-choices dropdown boxes are unintuitive. The user has to know that she can CTRL-click to add a choice. A overflow:scroll div with checkboxes is easier: one click, no modifier key involved. In both cases you get to scroll a box, so I concede both approaches are as cumbersome in that respect.
    Point 6 is a viable suggestion.
    Maybe we should have templates for the Edit area? This way users could edit that listing to behave just like they want it to.
    Point 7 is a matter of knowing how to use your webbrowser.
    Right-click, open as a new window.
    Point 9 is a matter of priorities.
    Uploading a file, trackbacking a set of posts, modifying the timestamp, are all optional actions, this is why they get to be below the submit buttons. The goal is not to drown the user below optional fields.
    Point 10 is coming.
    Point 11 is already covered by the <!–more–> tag.

    11. It was always my impression that the <!–more–> tag has nothing to do with the excerpt field, unless you manually cut and paste the text that comes before the tag into the excerpt box. Which involves you having to go into the advanced editing screen. So an option that allowed you to specify the teaser text as the excerpt by default would be nice.

    I am only posting this in order to test whether my thread has been “closed” or whether I have been debarred completely. The issue has been my posts in Installation. Sorry to have troubled you.
    Best Wishes
    Root

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