Some issues and requests from 2.7 UI testers:
- Move Taxonomy stuff out of Utilities menu to a top-level level. Some suggested menu names: Meta, Taxonomy, Organization.
- Change “Templates” menu name back to “Design” or “Themes”
- Add drag-and-drop back to Widgets admin. Make it easier to move widgets between sidebars. Support having custom side bars for different page types. Lots of dissatisfaction with 2.5 widgets admin. Part of that is due to limitations in our JS libraries at the time 2.5 was done. Part is due to design. Showing one sidebar at a time and switching with a dropdown makes it possible to support lots of sidebars but many miss being able to see all sidebars at once and drag and drop between them.
- Folks looking forward to dashboard drag and drop. Would be great if we can make it as configurable as the new edit post page.
- Some would like expand on hover in the menus in order to save clicks.
- Some want the Author column in Posts page brought back.
JD Hartley 9:39 pm on September 2, 2008 Permalink |
The bubbles on plugins is gone, too. Are we going to get that back? Maybe put it on the top bar next to the comments link?
Mark Jaquith 3:07 am on September 3, 2008 Permalink |
The Author column should show up if a blog has multiple authors.
SteveAgl 7:53 am on September 3, 2008 Permalink |
On top bar near Dashboard entry there is a “new post” button, on menu sidebar there is a button with the same same function named “write a new post” look a bit redundant. I suggest to get rid of the top one and cnahege the menu bar one to write post witha write page under it..
jane 8:28 pm on September 3, 2008 Permalink |
There are a number of UI updates/fixes that didn’t make it into crazyhorse before we did user testing, including the New Post/Write New Post issue. That was in crazyhorse specifically so we could test where people looked when we asked them to write a new post, to see if the “New Post” link on the admin bar was visible enough, or if they would be looking within the main screen. The big button was never intended to stay where it is in an actual release.
amfprod 4:49 pm on September 4, 2008 Permalink |
I agree with the widget admin concerns, drag and drop between sidebars needs to be reinstituted.
How about change the menu name “Templates” to “Layout.” That makes more sense, and jives with “Content.” So you’d have “Content” and “Layout.” Sounds good, no?
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