[wp-testers] Reasoning behind admin navigation?

[Tom Belknap]

I think it's relevant to point out that not everyone who has an account on a WordPress site necessarily administers the site.  Lots of people are simply readers or contributors.  

That said, the Options tab being conveniently located is certainly helpful for us administrators, but if the point is to increase overall usability, then the administrator is not the primary target.  Also, the plan seems to be to allow plugins to include their own tabs, so an Options tab may not be as important as it once was.

I do wonder, though, if any consideration has been given to overflow?  Once plugin developers get used to having their own tab in the interface, we're going to end up with an awful lot of tabs.


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>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:09:28 -0800
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>I don't think that makes much sense.  Settings (Options) tab is used
>quite frequently as most plugins install their control panels as
>sub-tabs in this area.  It's rather irritating to have to "click over"
>to find this since its no longer a main tab.
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>I hope the powers that be realize this and fix it!
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>> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:45:45 +1100
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>> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Reasoning behind admin navigation?
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>> I believe its to do with User testing and whatnot.
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>> The dashboard is only ever needed when logging in, users rarely go back to 
>the dashboard once they've logged in
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>> Settings, user and plugins are also menu's which are not used as commonly as 
>the rest
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>> The main tabs are things which users commonly access, it'll also allow for 
>greater room when adding extra tabs for plugins, Some plugins need he extra 
>top menu, and doing it like this allows everything to fit on a smaller screen 
>too.
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>> These are just my opinions, i've not seen any docs on the changes.
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