Why why why is the delete button right next to the export button?

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    alicesusanharding · Member ·

    I have asked this before but didn’t get an answer.

    I would so like to know why WordPress.com in their wisdom have chosen to put the export button right next to the delete button, so that if someone were tired or their hand slipped – something which can and does happen – someone could quite easily delete their whole site? Why on earth have WordPress put it there of all places, somewhere one ought to often go to back the site up, when there are so many other places where it would have been safely tucked away?

    It has to defy rational explanation, but nevertheless I would like to know what the official line of WordPress.com is on that?

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    timethief · Member ·

    One cannot deleted a blog without clicking the verification link which is sent to the blogger in an email so I don’t consider this positioning of the button referred to to be an issue.

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    alicesusanharding · Member ·

    Thanks for your reply but I think it still is an issue because until one knows that – which may be never – it is nerve-wracking.

    I mean it’s so odd, why there of all places – right next to the backup button…

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    allthoughtswork · Member ·

    I agree. Some of the buttons on here are annoying at best, dangerous at worst.

    For instance, in Edit mode, all buttons are muted grey but the Publish button. Which just happens to be in the exact spot as the Update button in Edit mode for published entries. I do many drafts before I release my stuff into the wild and tweak things sometimes once they’re up, but I only intend to hit that Publish button once. It’s annoying as frack to have to stop, stare at that blue sucker, and make sure I’m not getting screwed each and every time I tweak a draft.

    Why can’t you use the tried and true stoplight principle? Red for delete, yellow for update/draft, green for publish/submit. Been workin’ for decades on other sites.

    *Hell, at the bottom of this very page, the Submit button is muted to damned near invisibility while the Go Premium button is an attention getting bold blue. Way to go, marketing department.

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    alicesusanharding · Member ·

    I totally agree.

    It’s possible some designers have a sadistic streak and do these things on purpose – or why?

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