Massive changes to the WP interface
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@bumblepuppies
I do not think that how designsimply was spoken to in this or any other deleted thread is at issue. Every 3 months or so Staff go off and meet face to face for team working sessions. My guess is that this could be the case now. -
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For what it is worth, count me as another negative comment awaiting moderation. From earlier today, so not waiting that long, but waiting nonetheless.
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Designsimply is assigned to mod this forum thread. She has taken breaks from commenting here, as I assume she has many other duties to perform. A couple of reactions to her were less than perfectly polite, but overall the tone of this entire thread has been extremely civil.
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oops!
Timethief: this response has totally nothing to do with the subject of this thread – thing is I just came across your farewell post in your blog, I too wanted to post a big “Thank you!” for the support you have been giving me, but comments are closed, yeah, I arrived at the party too late – so let me say it here :)) farewell and good luck with all!
Mabel Amber
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Three requests:
1. Put a fully functioning administrator’s bar across the top of both old and new stats pages to make it easier to get back to other administrative functions, or at least back to the Dashboard.
2. Bring back color options, because some combinations are better than others for various visual problems (the current pale blue lacks contrast).
3. Put in a cookie to remember which stats page a user prefers, as was done with the old and new (Beep Beep Boop) editing pages. -
Some of us finally had our comments ‘moderated’ on the PR blog post. Most still seem to be missing.
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Three comments have made it through so far. None of them reference this thread, and I added mine just a few hours ago.
Perhaps (hopefully) the others will be approved shortly.
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Hello all. I am just catching up here after a holiday break. I hope your holidays were lovely! I will try to address the latest concerns from this thread in my next few replies.
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mathmaine, thank you for your measured feedback.
Latex support is critical. Please do not touch this!
I don’t know of any plans to discontinue LaTeX support, so you should be good there! Every so often, someone brings up the idea of switching to MatchJax though, which I hear is better. But there aren’t any solid plans to make a switch any time soon.
Please do not assume that everyone wishes to post as soon as they have written – keep it very easy to save a draft version, then return to it for further editing frequently.
You may save a draft in the new editor by clicking the “Save” button at the bottom left of the editor—make sure to use gray button that says “Save” not the blue button that says “Publish.”
The ratio of views to visitors seems the best proxy you have for level of engagement, and your new Stats graph no longer displays it.
Thanks for this note. This is something the developers are considering updating.
Having multiple versions of seemingly the same page (I’m thinking of the Stats page), along with multiple ways to get there can be very confusing.
I see your point. At least one (possibly both) of the older stats pages should be retired at some point.
The navigation process has become a bit too complex over the past 18 months (start at top left, or top right, or title bar? Oh wait, it depends on the page I am on.).
The navigation is definitely going through a period of change. Making some changes and then following up with adjustments was a way to rapidly iterate. Those types of changes should settle and not happen so dramatically in the future.
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With all of the well-justified criticism of the new stats page, I think many of our collective gripes are well-established. I get the sense, however, that it is unlikely that we will be heard and that the old, better stats page is going to remain a permanent feature, let along one that is the default page.
bubbasuess, feedback is heard, and there are some updates already being worked on for the new stats page. In addition, the feedback posted here will be taken into consideration the next time the stats page is revised. That won’t happen right away, but when it does happen, this feedback will help shape future updates.
The changes happening now will take time to get tied together into a more cohesive unit—but they will get there. The updates may be a hard transition for a little while, but they will get better and better over time and with the support of people like you and the feedback you bring to the process.
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Regarding Themes: WP made a change to how we can view new themes. Gone are the days when you can try a new theme on for size seeing how it looks with YOUR OWN content.
ldgl0710, live previews are definitely not going away. That feature hasn’t been added to the new dashboard yet, but it will be in the future.
For now, you can get to a live preview in the classic dashboard by going to Appearance > Themes and clicking on the Preview button for any theme on that page. Sorry not finding previews in the new dashboard yet caused you some trouble!
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I understand why Automattic wants to maintain control over the blog code (security etc). But why not offer that ability for end user to fork off and layer their own admin runtime over the baseline code.
kerin2014, this is already available. You can find details at https://developer.wordpress.com/
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@designsimply,
Are you aware that seven bloggers here have had comments blocked on this post?adrienneadams, comments were not blocked and were probably just approved out of order—that can happen if someone does a first pass to approve comments that don’t need a reply and a second pass later which gives the comments that are more critical, or that may need a reply, more time and attention and so those can take longer to appear. Also, not every single comment will always be approved—sometimes duplicates are removed or some are replied to by email because they are support questions, and other things like that. I see that Ben addressed your concerns in the post comments directly and noted that the critical feedback becomes part of what helps each feature get better the next time it is revised.
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The feedback that gets posted in threads like this, combined with stats and other factors, will be taken into consideration when deciding what to update the next time each feature is revised. I appreciate everyone who took the time to post about how they feel about recent updates here at WordPress.com. I care a lot about our community and do my best to be present and caring when I am a part of the conversations here so I can bring forward the constructive and critical feedback in an unbiased way. I want to also make sure to let you know that there are already some updates for stats being worked on because of your feedback, such as an all-time summary view and updating the default graph from 10 to 30 days, and that the developers plan to make additional revisions to stats over the coming months. I’m closing this thread now because I have collected and reported all of the major feedback from it. If you were a part of the thread, thank you for taking the time to participate. If you have a new issue to bring forward or if you happen to find a bug along the way, please start a new help request at https://support.wordpress.com/contact/
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