"New Post" As Option On Front Page WP.com Bar

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  auggiedaddy · Member · Feb 20, 2011 at 6:26 am

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  This is more of an annoyance than anything else. Whatever you call that bar at the top of the page (when you’re logged in) … the WP.com bar? … will often have an option for “Edit Post” if you’re on a single-post page, but there’s no option for “New Post” if you’re on the front page of the site. (I suppose it would if your front page were a static page.)

  I’m of the school that values laziness as a tool for progress. :-) Saving mouse clicks is good, by me. Especially as I have about ten blogs, and so I have to go through a list, then a sub-list, to get to the “new post” option.

  There’s certainly room at the top of the screen. :-) Hope all are well.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 20, 2011 at 9:36 am

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  It’s called the admin bar, it’s always there as long as you’re logged in, and it’s always the same. Hover over “My Blogs”, hover over blog name, click “New Post”.

  (Alternative: bookmark your main dashboard pages or even your Add New Post pages.)

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  auggiedaddy · Member · Feb 20, 2011 at 1:45 pm

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  Admin bar. Thank you. On the admin bar, it would be nice to have a direct link to the New Post page. Not a major improvement, obviously, but also an unobtrusive addition that would make the UI simpler. I think expecting bloggers to have a bookmark handy to the post page for each of their blogs is not a better solution, but a much poorer one, especially if they don’t have a bookmarks bar on every page in their browser. It’s not that hard to go through the menu, but it is a drag if you’ve got a big menu to go through. (Am I alone here in doing a *lot* of blogging? Improvements are always nice, if they make things even a bit simpler, and don’t add bloat.)