[wp-hackers] I don't like the new welcome screen

[Lee Rickler]

Totally agree.

I can only presume that there are many, many times more 1st timers/ non (professional) developers that use WordPress than us lot.

As I said, it's a beautiful piece of work, just not something I, or my clients, need.

The extra 30 seconds it takes to log in as the client and dismiss it is nothing (or chargeable to the client depending on how you look at it!) and I am merely making a statement rather than a complaint.

The other 99.9% of 3.3 I absolutely adore, of course!

On 30 Dec 2011, at 22:07, Jane Wells wrote:

> The WordPress UI (of which the welcome is part) is largely designed for the people who use it, not for the people other people hire to do setups for them. Consultants who are doing setup for other people obviously don't need (or in most cases want) the welcome box, but they are capable of just turning it off. For that matter, users can also click dismiss the one time without a great deal of hardship.
> j
> 
> On 12/30/11 4:18 PM, Lee Rickler wrote:
>> I might be alone in this but I actually don't like the new welcome screen.
>> Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful pice of work but it's impractical.
>> 
>> My reason for this admission is that I develop corporate sites using WordPress as a CMS.
>> My clients prefer a clean, uncluttered look and feel (which is one reason why I developed this plugin - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/point-and-stare-cms-functions/) and want to just get straight into using their new system.
>> 
>> As useful as the welcome screen is to those that have just installed WP for the first time, for example, as a developer I always have to remove it.
>> 
>> On the opposite I simply love full screen editor for the same reasons of being able to work zen-like.
>> 
>> Might just be me though.
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