This post is just for WordPress users who have found this blog by following a link from a more, shall we say, technically themed blog, and have been surprised (and even dismayed) to find a WP hack in amongst a discussion about stuff like hand-knit socks and yarn. This is a knitting blog. That’s what I talk about, more or less. But sometimes other things creep in. WordPress, for example. You can get the link to the hack here, without having to search through knitting stuff.
Although there is much to like about WP 2.5, the write panels suck. A great deal of scrolling up and down is required, disrupting the once smooth workflow. The width of the write area is limited, even on wide-screen monitors. The notification of pending posts and drafts has been removed. Usability is way, way down.
So I took matters into my own hands and fixed what I thought were the most egregious faults.
You can see a picture of the new panel here. If you are a self-hosted WP 2.5 user and would like to incorporate these changes, you can download them here. The files all go in /wp-admin/, except for global.css, which goes in /wp-admin/css/. Back up your files first. Use at your own risk. No implied warranty. Etc.
A ticket was opened in Trac requesting that this be made an enhancement in a future WP release. The ticket has been closed by TPTB as not being valid.
An idea has been posted in the WP Ideas Forum. Please go over and vote for it. This is the only way that we will get the developers to fix the write panel workflow. You will have to register in order to vote, but it’s easy and painless and you need not give away any personal information. Your email is used only to send your password.
Sorry, I can’t help you directly if you are on WordPress.com. But you can still go over and vote for the idea. Whatever changes are in the next release will impact you as much as me.
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1Remark from 525/525 » Blog ArÅŸivi » wordpress 2.5′teki yazı alanı wordpress 2.3′teki gibi olsun diyenler — Thursday, 4/17/2008 @ 5:23 PM
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2Remark from KJToo » WordPress 2.5: The Write Post Interface — Friday, 4/18/2008 @ 8:32 AM
you are a 1337 haxx0r. 😉
gonna make the v-man install this for me!
3Remark from Kerin — Friday, 4/18/2008 @ 6:03 PM
Thank you very much for taking action and putting this together. May your kind flourish! 🙂
4Remark from Pete — Friday, 4/18/2008 @ 11:35 PM
Thank you very much for this plugin. You can’t imagine what a nightmare it was to scroll down the frame of categories to check one of the 60 we use as CMS. Cheers.
5Remark from Merci — Saturday, 4/19/2008 @ 4:02 PM
Sent you an email with a screenshot attached. I’m having an issue with the rendering of the categories box (the cat list is compressed to unusability) and was hoping you’d have some advice. Just wanted to hive you a heads up so it wouldn’t get spaminated.
6Remark from Soni — Monday, 4/21/2008 @ 11:06 AM
Erg, that should be “give you a heads up.” No hives attached, I hope. 😛
7Remark from Soni — Monday, 4/21/2008 @ 11:08 AM
Thank you! I am impressed and will use with joy.
8Remark from joy — Monday, 4/21/2008 @ 9:44 PM
Thanks a bunch for this 🙂 I was getting really annoyed with WP 2.5 (well still am but at least this issue is solved).
@soni
9I had the same issue and solved it by changing the margin-left value in line 1259 from 120px to 0px
Remark from juliaL49 — Tuesday, 4/22/2008 @ 9:35 AM
Stumbled my way here procrastinating and just wanted to say thank you! I love the wordpress hack!
Cole
10Remark from Nicole Reising — Tuesday, 4/22/2008 @ 4:45 PM
🙂 thank you, thank you, thank you.
11What am I voting for? Will be checking out the forum.
Voted, but still want to thank you for redoing the write panel, so much easier to use now.
René
Remark from Rene — Wednesday, 4/23/2008 @ 6:13 PM
juliaL49
Thanks for the tip! Weirdly enough, though, the next time I logged in the problem had solved itself. Not sure how or why, but I’m not arguing. Before long, WP will be fixing things *before* we know they’re a problem…shades of the Eschaton…
12Remark from Soni — Wednesday, 4/23/2008 @ 7:28 PM
I love this! Thank you SO much — this is a beautiful hack for my favorite CMS platform. May you never lose another knitting needle!
13Remark from birdseatbugs — Thursday, 4/24/2008 @ 7:29 PM
@juliaL49
your browser had cached the old css files. For anyone else having this problem in firefox, just hold down ctrl when you click on refresh 😉
14Remark from Adam — Wednesday, 5/7/2008 @ 7:01 PM
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