[wp-testers] Page Ordering

[Alexander Beutl]

You know somthing?
WordPress is - first of all - a blogging plattform which has the capaibities
to handle so called "pages" because there is a need for them (only think
about impressum and stuff).

Even when you use it as a sort of CMS you will not have to rearange your nav
structure very often (if you do, there will be some issues with SEO)

Anyway it is nice to have a plugin which can handle this - but one shouldn't
blow up core by adding things 95% or more will never need.

There are many great plugins - some with a very broader spread usage - which
are and will not be included in core for that reason:
Keep it small and simple - keep it usable.

What do you think the backend would look like if you integrate thousands of
plugins into core just because they are usefull for ~5% of the users? It
would be a pure desaster. Thinking about size: today WordPress takes about 4
or 5 MBs if you don't count wp-content. My WP-Content needs about 8 MB
today. If all that would be integrated into core the core would need 10+ MB
and the plugins I use are different from the ones you use and someone else
will use totaly different plugin too.
This would add up to an enormous overhead.

I wouldn't integrate this one into core as I wouldn't do with any of the
plugins I am using today.

2008/4/28 Brad Kovach <bradkovach at gmail.com>:

> Page ordering and management is STILL a disaster in WordPress.
>
> PageMash, a plugin I found in the plugin directory, makes this ordering
> and parenting a drag-and-drop process.  Seeing that it's GPL'd, it should be
> spliced into WordPress.
>
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pagemash/
>
> Any takers?
> Brad Kovach
> bradkovach.com
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