[wp-testers] Default actions for top-level admin menu items

[John Blackbourn]

I agree. I also think the menus should stay with verbs, not nouns, but
apparently the user interaction testing and polls that have been
conducted suggest otherwise.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Reid Beels <wp at reidbeels.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> It occurs to me that the current default actions when clicking on top-level
> menus in 2.7 are a bit counterintuitive. The menu titles refer to
> collections of objects (Posts, Media, Links, etc) so I would expect that
> clicking on them would lead the user to a list of objects in a given
> collection. Instead, it leads to a form for adding new objects. I agree that
> having quick access to the new post form is important, but given the
> addition of the favorite action menu it seems that the 'edit' view would be
> a more sensible default for the top-level menus.
> Reid Beels
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