Stephanie Leary

Sure, thanks! Glad the fixes were easy.

I think I’ve got it. Download the altered copy of tdomf-categories-widget.php here. You should also add #categorychecklist li { list-style: none; } to the forms CSS in tdomf-your-submissions.php — otherwise the checkboxes will be bulleted.

… oh, how I hate reference sites that use frames. The function is wp_category_checklist.

OK. If you don’t mind, I’ll work on it this weekend. I found the poorly-documented WP function that spits out the checkbox list, so the trick will be integrating that with the options.

FYI, we’ve now been told that Trac isn’t the right place for our discussion, either. My original ticket has been marked a duplicate of the later one, and that one has been closed with the comment that it should be taken the Ideas forum.

God, how frustrating this is.

I’m thinking we need to start filing bugs if we want these issues addressed. Here’s a list of potential bugs I’ve gleaned from this thread:

* the whole issue of below-the-post vs. the right sidebar
* no drafts listed on the Write page
* permalink editing weirdness
* pre-filled https:// not selected
* no way to add files in the media manager
* time of day missing from Manage Posts list
* drag and drop widget management is gone (or just changed? See #5859)

There are already some bugs filed on the media manager’s functionality.

I’ve taken the liberty of writing up the tags/category issue and creating a patch using ericr23’s mod. Comments on the ticket would be great. (I was sorely tempted to set the priority as “highest omg bbq,” but I refrained.)

As for the rest of the list, if the people who brought up the issues would submit tickets on them, that’d be great too.

Here’s a solution for you.

Found the problem: a leftover copy of the Add User Photo plugin, which isn’t compatible with 2.5 (and is no longer needed in any case).

ericr23, you’re my hero. Your mod works great with the Fluency plugin, FYI.

… and one of my users has just been bitten by this bug: she needs to change her password, and can’t.

Help?

I’m not sure if I’m doing it right or not but I stuck that at the bottom of global.css (with my incredibly basic knowledge of where these files reside on my server), uploaded the new version and nothing happened. Was I supposed to use the curly-brackets to surround the code?

No, but you might have to hold down the shift key while you refresh the Write screen, if your browser had the old CSS file cached.

I did a bit of CSS-fu to move the categories. I added this to the bottom of global.css:

#categorydiv { float: right; clear: right; width: 220px; position: relative; right: -250px; top: -520px; z-index: 10; background: #fff; }
#tagsdiv, #category-tabs, #category-adder { display: none; }
#categories-all { height: 20em; margin-left: 0; border: none; }

Unfortunately that covers up the Related list, but I can’t bring myself to care. It also turns off the tags panel (as I mentioned, I don’t use those). And I wouldn’t count on it working in IE.

It’s a stopgap at best.

It would be nice to think that a WordPress “official” was reading these comments and giving some feedback – or listening to our calls to have a “go back to classic view” option on the backend.

I’ve just sent a note in to the Kvetch page, in case that does any good at all.

Right there with you. You might check with whooami and see if s/he will share the rewritten code.

I really love most of the UI changes. No more “slug,” which confused all of my clients. The uploader seems to work reasonably well, and allows file types that I previously had to specify with a mime type plugin.

However.

Moving the categories to the bottom of the screen is a huge mistake. In 2.3x, there was a lovely division between the post’s content (things you type on the left) and its meta data (things you select on the right). Now everything’s jumbled in a way that defies logic. Like the rest of you, I work with categories on every post. (I generally don’t use tags.) I loathe having to scroll down to reach the category box, where before I had it handy on the right. What frustrates me even more is that there’s plenty of empty space on the right, since the content area doesn’t take up the whole width, but the page is coded in such a way that I can’t move the categories and tags over using CSS alone.

If it’s possible to rearrange the Write screen in a plugin, I’ll write it. I cannot express how much I hate the new location of the categories and tags.