anyone else fins WP un-user friendly pure blog platform
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Sure WP is great for cross-platform stuff,
but has anyone tried to even use it on a mass scale?Even with cross-platform stuff.
Main personal issues.
I ported over Tumblr posts, but because I had no options in the process to only port my content. Not Reblogs.
I not am trying to go through and remove Reblogs.
How helpful is the over-complex WP interface for simple blog usability.
Well.. if you don’t recognize the Titles of posts or they are blank, you must review them before removing right?
You review them and it takes you to your blog… AS IF you are an outside viewer. There are no user controls to terminate the post then and there. SO you must go back (thank the hold back button).
Not you trash the post. Yipee! the page refreshes you back upto the top of the list. You scroll down. Hang on … did I get the right title-less post or not?
Go into trash… oh… I must restore it to see it. Great.
Why is there no hover-over preview of posts? Or … maybe.. just some simple innovative way of actually running a blog-page on WP. Not a whole freaking website.
Thanks.
~ zee
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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also maybe a simple way to edit really poorly written forum posts and titles?
KTHankzBYE
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WordPress.com is proprietary, but WordPress.org is open-source, so you can simply head over there and start contributing to the improvements.
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why even have the site then if that is the case. the site needs improvements itself. not the infrastructure on org that allows people to make their own. better version.
i’ve added shadow bars that follow the cursor and open source dyslexic texts manually to my own word press site. i’m just trying to use this as a blog with mass posts… and… frankly… the site probably won’t be around in 800 years by the time I finish sorting these posts out.
I mean how ridic is it that when you go to view a post on your blog, you have the options to follow and reblog yourself…
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Or… are these features crippled by the payment system and I must pay for such advanced features?
Can WordPress just use the add money of my future blogs to pay someone who knows WP site code 15mintues to fix these issues.
Adding simple … HTML… BUTTONs… tied to Basic functions.
I know nothing about it… but i’d just rip the html off the delete link on the edit posts mass page and apply it to a link that appears on the user-logged-in-view of their own site. If there is such a thing.
*sigh * IDK
sorry
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If you want to see snippets of your posts, go to the Edit Posts Screen and click on the icon on the right under the Search box. (screenshot)
More about the Edit Posts screen: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
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Your criticisms are of WordPress.com as a Tumblr importing platform. They’re not without merit, but they’re not about blogging. If you want to blog, blog.
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True, that is my initial experience. But if I come to a point where I want to delete posts. . . why wouldn’t it be simpler to do see when I can see what they are. ESP if I had been blogging here for years.
Thanks for your input and solutions.
I did try the quick view editor, but then had to cancel, to then Trash the untitled post. I then restored it from Trash and found it to be the wrong untitled post.
It just highlighted complications I don’t want to have to deal with later while managing a vast blog. ESP if losing posts I don’t want to lose, simply because of a process that is not linear and fool proof.
But Tangential. At a basic level, without other conditions.
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Guess that depends whether you class deleting posts as basic functions needed to run a blog.
The ‘edit’ function must have mind blown this community. They just can’t see where to go from there.
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Maybe the problem is with the work flow and not the system.
As far as I could tell from your above remarks, you couldn’t tell which posts you were deleting because they didn’t have post titles. When you switched to snippets on the Edit Posts screen it should have become much clearer which posts you were deleting and/or restoring, since you can see snippets on all Edit Posts screens, including the Trash folder. So I’m not clear on how the “edit” function is the problem.
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Also, perhaps you’d like to make a real difference on how WordPress functions by heading over to http://make.wordpress.org/ and contributing to development. You’ll need to create a separate log-in account over there if you don’t already have one.
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I found the ‘exerpt view’. Helps alot.
Still think the import tool could do with some options.Don’t really think I”m qualified to make a Document (.docx .odt .txt) to Post-Queue converter app. Knowing no code myself, but basic HTML.
And that is one of the only things i’d be interested in.
So a folder of text files, can be queued on the local system, converted to online blog posts and queued. Either by a live drop box style folder… or just browser integrated sharing to a particular permissioned folder on the pc.
Alternatively text files could be uploaded to a storage area on WordPress and simply sorted with ‘move up’ ‘move down’ functions… ordering the live cue. Posts converted in the background processes or during the upload, to use the users PC processors and not server resources.
This way wordpress could market a storage component to their memberships, or at least a greater function of it.
i.e. there is already post-via-email, but what about people with large bodies of text based files. Diaries in local formats.
Annyway. I’ve already raised that a while ago.
Thanks again for the responses.
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