[wp-testers] New Navigation. A bit of a fluke!

Jeff Chandler jeffro at jeffro2pt0.com
Wed Oct 15 08:27:48 GMT 2008


When I initially installed WordPress 2.7 trunk on my local server, I was 
immediately taken back by the side menu and thought it had been replace 
by icons. Only after 5 minutes of playing around did I notice the double 
arrow icon which extended the menu. I'm glad for that as I wouldn't want 
to memorize what each icon did.

Ben Huson wrote:
> Now that the new navigation has taken shape I think it works quite well - I
> wasn't initially sure about the change to a vertical nav but having used it
> I now prefer it.
> I like the way the menus open and close vertically, however I have a
> comment:
>
> Sometimes it is nice that you can have two menus open at the same time,
> however I can foresee that this may become slightly annoying if you can a
> few menus open at the time time, having to scroll up and down. Should there
> be a setting so that when you click a menu it closes other open menus? That
> way the user could select how they would prefer the menu to work...
>
> - Ben
>
>
> 2008/10/15 Christopher Tran <ndcx.ctran at yahoo.com>
>
>   
>> Does anyone know where I can get 2.7?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2008, at 10:09 PM, "Musing Minds" <kimsch at musing-minds.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> WP-SpamFree is a great plugin for anti-spam. I really don't see any anymore
>> with this plugin. Works with 2.7!
>> http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of brooklynne
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:54 PM
>> To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
>> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] New Navigation. A bit of a fluke!
>>
>> I personally love the new admin navigation so much easier and intuitive
>> fo rme to use, I can easily find the things I'm looking for and it
>> actually encourages me to blog more, the only thing I don't like is that
>> it doesn't show me my spam queue via askimet in the main dashboard
>> overview... I have to goto comment moderation which is a pain because I
>> get about 30 spam messages a day!
>>
>>
>> Hadeel Hejja wrote:
>> This is Dooleh, a newbie in the world of wordpress beta testers. I am not
>> going to be all technical about this, but I really dislike the new
>> navigation. At first, I thought the navigation disappeared when I upgraded.
>> No, it was just in a hidden AJAX-type mechanism. The little separations
>> between the dashboard and other parts of the admin menu are awkward.  I
>> liked how the menu looked before the update. Just an opinion, because this
>> one is much more cluttered. Love the little icons, though!
>>
>> P.S. Whenever I open one of the main links, like Dashboard, the subpages
>> don't go up. THey stay there and make me have to scroll to navigate. Very
>> annoying, I might say.
>>
>>
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