[wp-testers] A few comments about 1.6

Dan Milward dan at instinct.co.nz
Mon Oct 31 21:13:23 GMT 2005


I aso agree. What WP "needs" is not "cool" header editing functionality 
but things like "built in spam karma", "plugin management" etc etc etc......

Ciao,

Dan

Robert Deaton wrote:

>1. I don't think WP's appeal was ever meant to be a content management
>system, although it is sure moving to that way. Pages could use a
>better listing system, but currently the code required to do some of
>the crazily specific tasks hasn't been written.
>
>2 and 3. I agree, I think a lot of things that are being added could
>be considered bloat, but that's just me
>
>On 10/31/05, david hodgkins <hodgkins at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I've spent some time playing with 1.6 on my local machine and I have a few
>>comments/questions regarding it.
>>
>>1. Page Lists: Currently (to the best of my knowledge) if you have a ground
>>of pages with a specific template, you can list only those pages with the
>>exclude function.  While this can work for a lot of people, it severely
>>limits wp's appeal as a "content management system."  Namely, if I have a
>>page called "Famous Cats" as id=5 and subpages called "Garfield," "Tom," and
>>"Moris" I can display only those in the sidebar template.  If I then make a
>>page called "Famous Dogs" as id=25 with subpages, I can make a template and
>>have only those pages.  If I make a page called "Famous Mice,"  I can do the
>>same thing, but have to edit the other templates to exclude that set of
>>pages.
>>
>>So, instead of an exclude call, how about an "include only" call?
>>
>>2. Import:  Currently in the alpha version, the Import option is a main menu
>>item.  Since Import is usually used only once or twice, wouldn't it be
>>better suited as a sub-menu item in Options or Manage?
>>
>>3. This is just a nitpick of mine, but why is the theme option for changing
>>the Default header included as core?  It seems to me that it doesn't add any
>>core functions and that's it's just bloat.  Cool bloat, but bloat
>>nonetheless.  Is this the beginning of WP putting in code just for vanity's
>>sake?  (That's the path to the dark side, you know :)
>>
>>4. How can I change the "Howdy" greeting?  I'd rather have it say "How Y'all
>>Doin'?" :)
>>
>>silverwing
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