Blaze Miskulin

I, too, dislike the new inline link “feature”. It creates extra work and I dislike things hovering over my text. While I’m forced to admit that it probably won’t be reverting to the old style (higher functionality, lower annoyance), I want to voice my support for at least adding the “new tab” checkbox to the front (not hidden behind the gear).

@ Samuel Otto

Your insistence that opening in a new tab is “bad form” and should be avoided is not a universal position. In fact it’s strongly argued against by both users and UI designers. Here are a couple links to counter yours:

https://inbound.org/discuss/external-links-open-them-in-a-new-tab-or-in-the-same-tab-why-any-data

https://uxmovement.com/navigation/why-external-links-should-open-in-new-tabs/

https://huaye-css.com

But the issue is in the admin panel, not the public-facing site. On the public side, the links are fine. I can edit that CSS without problems. it’s the editing panel that’s an issue.

https://huaye-css.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/example.jpg

One of those words is a hyperlink.

Hmm…

I originally tried using my GMail address (which I’ve been using for months), and it didn’t work. I tried the Zoho address only because I wanted to eliminate issues of Chinese blocking of Google.

I just tried again using my GMail address and it works. So… I don’t know what’s up.

Thank you, though. At the very least, it’s good to know that only e-mails associated with a user are allowed.

E-mail sent. Thank you.

That worked. Thanks!

Thanks. I’ll look into that.

Do you have any idea why this would have suddenly changed?

I’ve always used my GMail account to send posts. It’s worked in the past without any issues. I send the recent posts through my GMail account, but they failed.

I have not changed settings in the plugin.
I have not changed e-mail clients (gmail).
I have not changed settings in my e-mail client.

The only thing that has changed is my telephone. It may be that the native e-mail client on the telephone is causing the problem.

The image editors will be coming back in the form of a plugin.

So… What are we supposed to do in the meantime? And why was something so basic removed in the first place?

Fortunately, I know enough about web-coding that I can go in and fix it by hand, but this seems to be a bad move. Even if there’s a legitimate reason for removing the feature from the core set and assign it to a plug-in (something I would debate), there’s absolutely no reason to remove the feature without having the plug-in ready, available, and clearly pointed out to the users.

Add me to the list of people who is quite annoyed with the must-hover-to-see “feature” of the new admin sidebar.

In the previous system, I kept expanded the areas I frequently used. I could “move – click” to get to the places I wanted. Now, I have to move – hover – move – click”. That’s wasted time and decreased efficiency.

In addion, quite a few plugins make use of the admin sidebar to display information. Where I could, previously, glance at the sidebar and be presented with important information, I now have to manually mouse over each section and wait for it to display.

So… the new system has removed information from my view and requires that I do more work to achieve the same results. That is not an improvement.

And, yes, I see that there is a plug-in available. However, it’s cookie-based. That means that I have to save the settings in each browser on each computer I use (that’s quite a few), AND it’s completely useless on computers where I disable cookies or frequently delete them.

I’ll probably get the plug-in (though that’s one more bit of complexity to add to several dozen sites, and one more thing to keep updating, and one more opportunity for incompatibility and/or bugs).

Why would the developers *remove* a level of control? I don’t mind the flow-out–I’m sure it’s quite useful for users–but I see absolutely no valid reason for forcing all sections to collapse and removing the ability of the admin to decide what is expanded and what is collapsed.

Thanks.

With a little tweaking, I think it’s working.

@ Dion Hulse

Are comments required?

Yes. For most of the sites I create for our clients, I automatically turn off all comments and trackbacks.

What is the Intended Audience?

I’m dealing with a wide range of sites and a wide range of audiences. They range from high-end geeks to grandmothers that can barely type.

Can the Intended Audience handle Captcha’s or similar questions?

In most of the situations? Not really. I am *not* exaggerating when I say that the target audiences of many of the sites are hard-pressed to figure out how to use a comment form in the first place.

We deal with a niche market–absolute beginners with little to no tech knowledge or skill. We use WordPress for these clients because it allows these people have a website without having to know anything about code or having to deal with expensive contracts.

@ thread:

Yes, I’m quite aware of akismet. But I’m dealing with commercial sites, which means a paid license. The cost of the license would add 50-100% to the hosting package. Given our client base, that’s a bit steep. If our company were offering higher-end (i.e., more profitable) packages, I wouldn’t hesitate to add $5/month to the cost.

Akismet doesn’t answer the original question, however.

The primary question is: What does “mark as spam” do? I’ve marked the exact same bot-generated message as “spam” on any particular site anywhere from a dozen to a hundred times–and yet it still keeps showing up in the queue. As far as I can see, this action serves absolutely no purpose, and the marked messages just take up space in the DB. Why should I “mark as spam” instead of just deleting the comments?

BINGO!

Thanks. I never would have thought of that.

I downloaded this plugin (it looks like it does exactly what I need and will make my life much easier), but discovered one problem.

When I go to “Manage page”, the text entry area extends all the way to the right of the screen, and the sidebar floats over the top of it. It looks like there’s a div that’s not closing. I looked through the forums here, but didn’t see anyone else having this issue.

I’m running WP 2.3.3 (not ready to upgrade to 2.5 yet) and the only other plug-in I have in this install is RunPHP.

Satchel: “a better look” is entirely subjective. I find that the endash which WP inserts makes words look hyphenated rather than properly separated. I make use of this convention frequently and want to make sure that my readers understand what I’m typing. Unlike in print, I have little control over the font in which the readers are viewing my posts. While I may specify a font family–or even a specific font–it can be easily overridden by the reader in their preferences. Different fonts display the emdash and endash differently, and using the double-dash makes it harder to mistake one for the other. In addition, some browsers, fonts, and/or translations may not render either the em- or endash properly, but instead put in an “unknown” symbol. Using a double-dash eliminates this issue and allows for clean and acceptably-correct copy across the widest range of browsers–including lynx and other text-based browsers.

Lavender: Thanks. I very much dislike programs which “correct” my writing style–both for the reasons listed above, and because I often write in non-standard styles for a specific reason. The wp_texturize() function is what I was looking for. I got hung up in the cockney hack ??

I have multiple domains (all on the same server) which are experiencing the same problem. All were recently upgraded to WP 2.1

None of them have the Version Check plugin.

Our server is running:
PHP 5.0.4
MySQL 4.1.21

I’m coming into this way after the fact, but I’m the designer of the Tabloid theme, and there *is* a plug-in for the 2-column feature.

https://www.geekniche.org/base/index.php/wp-plugins/columns/

After that plug-in was created, the Tabloid theme was modified to include the 2-column functionality so that it would work better for sites that enabled the theme-switcher plug-in.