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It is tragic that theme, plugin and forum search are still mostly useless. It was a good idea to work on that stuff.

Search needs an overhaul- there should be one search system for everything but we should be able to constrain to [forums, plugins, themes, etc…]

More than that each of these areas should support WP Version categories. Most of the information on these forums is outdated and useless but it’s hard to tell since it may have been written for version 1.8 but there’s no indication/

Of course search needs to be able to be constrained to versions or ranges in each category as well. Nothing like searching for a simple AJAX Comment plugin only to be bombarded by old broken outdated incompatible plugs ??

Looking forward to the improvements!

For bonus points a time based auto-update system that loads new posts, comments and widget data would be pretty stellar.

And before someone says P2, we’re looking for something that works, that’s not always breaking and a model that is easy to apply to our own themes ??

How about AJAX commenting? Make sure to support it on the front page with multiple articles.

It could be as simple as a pull-down box:
Compatible with WordPress: [3.0, 2.9, 2.8 etc..]

Also…Updated: [Within 1 Week, Within 1 Month, Within 6 Months, With 1 Year, Within 2 years]

And Rated: [5 Stars, At least 4 Stars, At least 3 Stars, At least 2 Stars]

That would be very very helpful. It seems like it should be fairly simple to implement. Keep the sorting options. Perhaps the rest of this can hide in a div that is revealed when someone clicks an “Options” link in the search area.

Knob?

Any news? I understand that the design is theme territory but clearly the core should support a standard method. P2 Ajax comments seem to be of beta quality these days.

Yup. In fact it’s pretty shameful that AJAX comments aren’t included in the core/default themes.

There should be a standard method to do it.

Start by dragging the comment system out of 1999.

For starters at least provide a standard way to handle ajax comments. I have to a leave the page to leave a comment? Are you kidding me? This is easily the most visibly kludgy part of the wordpress frontend.

Probably the most sought after plugin/theme feature as well.

Also somewhere in the scope of 3.0 to 4.0 we need to overhaul the backend to be a single html 5 web application that just loads dynamic data. Then we can scrap gears and turbo mode and just have standard user mediated resource caching- not to mention realtime updates and no full page loads.

It’s where things are headed ??

For me the most important thing is a clear flow of code. Keep it simple with as few ids and classes as you can use. The theme should come with several css files to demonstrate styling without changing the DOM.

The default theme should use the basics, ajax comments at least but the code it generates should be fantastic.

I think it’s pretty sad that realtime comments is still a theme/pluging realm thing. It seems like it should be well supported and documented in to core along with useful theming tools. People expect it- even facebook does it.
All comment posting should be AJAX. The core should support both polling intervals and long http (“comet” style) on any page with comments.
The core should also support multiple comment forms on the same page without ID conflicts.
Generally wordpress should be writing fewer ids and classes into the page
Cheers for a great release!