Massive changes to the WP interface
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WordPress does have to evolve, and mobile platforms are going to necessarily be a part of that evolution. According to Statcounter, roughly half the visitors to my WordPress site are using mobile or tablet operating systems, and I’m sure that a staggering number of bloggers use phones and tablets to publish content.
This is a very good observation.
I just hope that our friends at WordPress don’t dismiss our complaints as an inevitable reaction to change.
I hope you can see from this thread alone that complaints are not dismissed. Not everything mentioned will be changed back to the old design, of course, but the feedback is absolutely being reviewed and checked on and updates are happening around the feedback even as we’re talking now.
The mobile friendly 1 column design looks dreadful on a screen that’s 2,560 pixels wide, and most of the advantage of having a large screen is squandered by the need to scroll to find information that was once easily viewed all at once.
It’s good to see this more specific complaint written out as a well-reasoned explanation.
Ensuring that we’ll have access to the older management and posting tools might go a long way towards quelling the tempest.
Yes, I can tell you that the WP Admin pages are not going away.
Thanks again for braving the hornet’s nest.
Thanks for saying that. :)
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I completed the survey. May I ask why you don’t ask for “search engine queries” at the end? I used this quite often even if Google for example doesn’t transmit all search terms, but the ones that came through were the very popular keywords. Why do you take away a highly important stats element?
Good question. Search terms have lost their usefulness with Google now encrypting most of their searches, so it was cut because the data isn’t reliable from the source the same way it was in the past.
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Re – Wyswig.
Your reply indicates that WP is not up to the job. We’ve all already noticed that. The glitches, omissions and failures of design have been appalling. Therefore WP needs to employ the principle of escalating effort/expertise.
In other words; if WP haven’t got it, go find it.
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–The link to the “Classic Stats” page is no longer working. Reading the other negative comments here about the recent “update/upgrade,” I’m sure you’ll know why I’m near-desperate to get that link back.
–Since I’m posting… Why do I have to go to the “Classic Dashboard” to sign out?
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The link to the “Classic Stats” page is no longer working.
That link is working for me in my testing. Can you tell me your browser version and OS please? I would like to try to figure out how to trigger the problem myself so I can see it in action.
Since I’m posting… Why do I have to go to the “Classic Dashboard” to sign out?
There is a sign out link on the left next to your username in the profile page. Click on your Gravatar in the blue toolbar to get to that page. Can you comment on this new thread about it and include a note saying you didn’t find it at all in the WordPress.com dashboard? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/missing-sign-out?replies=2
A comment there with specifics will help get feedback on just that topic into one place.
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This post backfired: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/missing-sign-out?replies=17
It’s so far only has one commenter talking about sign out link being hard to find. So, maybe a separate thread wasn’t a good idea in this case. Maybe let that thread be for a while if you’ve already commented there so that others can chime in if they want. If it continues on the current path though (being off-topic), maybe we should close it.
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Good question. Search terms have lost their usefulness with Google now encrypting most of their searches, so it was cut because the data isn’t reliable from the source the same way it was in the past.
So, you take the rest of the data away. To be honest, all terms that where popping up the 20% or what, were very useful because if I compared it with Google webmastet tools, they were the terms that got me the most traffic. I can’t understand how you can take it away. While it indeed didn’t have that importance anymore, it was still a useful indicator if certain keywords got more attention.
I just have to say it again. You downgrade the experience of wordpress.com. It’s a shame.
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On the broken link issue, I tried the following steps in Chrome 38, Safari 8, and Firefox 34 on Mac as well as Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1, and the link to the old stats page is working for me without any problems.
Here are my testing steps:
1. Go to https://wordpress.com/stats and log in
2. Click My Sites
3. Click the “Visit the old stats page” link at the bottom of the pageThat link works fine for me. If you are having trouble with that stats page link, please let me know your browser version whether or not your steps are different from the ones I posted above.
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Thanks for the reply.
–Desktop
–Ubuntu 14.04
–Chromium Version 39.0.2171.65Inportant note: The “Classic Stats” link worked fine yesterday… same computer… and I changed no computer/brower settings. Today, all the link does is send me to some error-message/search page from my ISP.
I went to the Classic Dashboard today and tried using that Stats link, but that link sends me to an older-generation stats page. Before yesterday, that older-generation stats page had its own link, and it would send me to my desired stats page… the page people are currently wanting back. But now, that older-generation link sends me to the brand new stats page… the one people aren’t too happy with.
I understand that web companies are being forced to create software that works on all platforms. I understand that change is necessary. What I don’t understand is updates/upgrades that look like they were designed 10 years ago, and defy the design logic available from the early days of the internet: Don’t force users to scroll down multiple times to find information.
Thanks again.
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@kerin2014, I closed your thread. I felt it was a duplicate of this one but without any specific details included at all, and I am helping you here in this thread. Can you please stick to this thread for the topic at hand?
New threads for specific bugs are cool if those come up and we want to break out to get more detail.
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This post backfired: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/missing-sign-out?replies=17
It’s so far only has one commenter talking about sign out link being hard to find….
No wonder. because the third post was a rant of the self-appointed forum police.
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@zimjason, thanks for the details. One more quick question, does opening this link directly work for you? https://wordpress.com/my-stats
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dear designs simply
i do not want to be rude
but i do think it might help for Matt to weigh inif this request and the many complaints re the UI changes is/are unimportant, then so be it
btw please do not ever close a topic i open again, if you dont mind.
there are far more senior tech people reading all this than you may realize.cheers.
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Thank you for being so attentive to the users here, so nice of you. It sure seems like you sustain a lot of flack, so sorry about that!
I have a question:
I noticed that in order to read more blogs, I find myself copying and pasting the words of a post into MS Word, and then having the post read to me out loud.
Do you think WordPress will ever have a feature in which a button will allow for the text of a post to be read aloud, directly from each individual blog? Maybe each user could record their own voice sample even.
Something to think about.
Thank you for years of blogging, feels like family now.
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