WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey
**Note: This survey has closed.**
WordPress 2.7 is currently in development and as some people already know, it features a revised layout with a left-hand navigation column that was designed in response to user feedback regarding the use of screen real estate. Because the navigation came straight from the Crazyhorse prototype that was developed quickly for usability testing, it is still a work in progress.
Navigation sections and labels are being decided now, and as usual there are lots of good ideas floating around. As part of the mission to increase user involvement in design decisions, we’ve created a survey intended to give WordPress users the ability to play a part in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped and labeled. If you use WordPress and want to add your opinion, take the survey.
Update: WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey has closed as of 04:00 UTC on Friday, September 19, 2008.
Posted: Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 7:46 pm. Filed in New Features.
Tags: 2.7, crazyhorse, navigation, suggestions, survey
Sep 15th at 7:54 pm
User participation in development like this is exactly why WordPress is the best blog provider/host out there.
Sep 15th at 7:58 pm
This looks very convenient! To be honest, I like left-hand sidebars more than top sidebars. It’s about time this idea took force.
Sep 15th at 8:33 pm
GREAT initiative.
Just completed the survey
Looking forward to that newer version on November 2008
Thank you !!!
Sep 15th at 8:40 pm
Very cool !
Hugs WordPress
Sep 15th at 8:41 pm
Thanks for letting us have input on this!
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer
Sep 15th at 8:48 pm
I actually like the navigation controls at the top of the screen.
Is there a way to make the location of the controls user-selectable?
Thanks for all you do!
Sep 15th at 8:49 pm
usually I’m OK with change, but can you guys just leave it the way it freaking is…how unnecessary. Nonetheless, I did take the survey and chose option C.
Sep 15th at 8:49 pm
AWESOME
Sep 15th at 9:01 pm
great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sep 15th at 9:02 pm
Kool!!! Thanks for letting us know
Sep 15th at 9:05 pm
I like the new dashboard. I think it’s even better than this one.
Sep 15th at 9:08 pm
very cool wordpress live!!!
Sep 15th at 9:27 pm
very cool
Sep 15th at 9:34 pm
Thank you for Survey & the chance of providing feed back
about the “CrazyHorse” layout. (I chose Option c for the layout.)
Sep 15th at 9:36 pm
No offense but these really are not the type of improvements that most bloggers are looking for. We want improvements to the capability of our wordpress.com blogs, not boring old dashboard navigation improvements.
Sep 15th at 9:58 pm
Wow, cool option. This is the great deal of wordpress facilites. I like it so much. Thanks wordpress, you give me more opportunity to develop my blog with this option.
Great job! Congratulation.
Sep 15th at 9:59 pm
wow it’s very easy now
Sep 15th at 10:03 pm
I’m looking foreward to November and the new WordPress
Sep 15th at 10:22 pm
Is this going to be the new design for our WordPress dashboard, an optional design, one of the features you can buy from WordPress.org, or something different? I’m not sure what it is that your talking about, sorry.
Sep 15th at 10:23 pm
Birdwhisperer: The admin tool is being redesigned in version 2.7 to make it easier to navigate and perform common tasks. The navigation design is intended to eliminate the need to leave your current screen while looking at other navigation options (currently you have to go into another section to see that section’s available options).
Sep 15th at 10:27 pm
it’s really great to see inside the development process and actually have a chance for input, rather than turn up one day and find the interface has changed (and probably not to something user’s really like).
Good work!
Sep 15th at 10:29 pm
nice survey. cant wait for 2.7
Sep 15th at 10:42 pm
And why not let the user decide what he wants for this navigation.
Sep 15th at 11:48 pm
Word press is the best blog package ever made, always updating us with the latest news, waitin for 2.7.
Sep 15th at 11:51 pm
ROCKIN!
Sep 16th at 12:06 am
I agree with Dartmerc, thanks for giving us the chance for some input.
I reckon I’m going to like this too.
Sep 16th at 12:09 am
i love it! who says u cant fall in love at first sight? the right tools at the right time!
Sep 16th at 12:12 am
Wooow….
WordPress is the bestlaa
Sep 16th at 12:12 am
I think it would be better if WordPress makes it user-selectable. Actually, I have no problem with it being at the top. It doesn’t make any much difference.
Sep 16th at 12:13 am
Ilah: The navigation redesign is allowing us to provide more options in version 2.7, such as allowing the user to decide which modules to display on the Write Post screen.
Sep 16th at 12:46 am
cool.
Sep 16th at 12:53 am
new menu it cool….I like it
Sep 16th at 1:32 am
WordPress 2.7 .. wow it’s fast update from wordpress
good job guys
Sep 16th at 2:30 am
My request would be that we get some warning before anything new is launched. I’ve noticed that when new features or major changes happen, there are glitches and the forum volunteers are sure given a run for their money.. so to speak, since they’re volunteers.
Last time, I was able to just log out and wait out a day or so for some of the glitches to be sorted out. That was just sheer luck though. It would be nice to know (kind of like how they knock on your door and let you know before they turn off the water to repair a water main break) with a bit of advance warning, so that we can not be doing something really important (to us) when voila… everything changes.
That would be super! I think with warning, most of us can adapt to any changes that happen.
Heading to the survey now.
Sep 16th at 2:31 am
fracas: The launch of version 2.7 is expected to happen in early November. We will post announcements in advance of this date to give people some warning. We’ll also be re-working the FAQ and creating some new screencasts to help with the transition.
Sep 16th at 2:39 am
I think it’s very useful for us
Sep 16th at 2:59 am
Great job!
Will it be possible to integrate the publishing tool in the main wordpress-sites?
I would love a “login”-box as a sidepanel widget on the main page. When you log in, the login-box changes to show the 4-5 most used tools, such as “Write post”, “New Comments” etc – with a link to the Dashboard for further options.
Sep 16th at 3:05 am
That’s actually pretty cool! But it will take awhile to get used to the change if we do change it.
Sep 16th at 3:22 am
Great but i would liek more themes with navigation bars It is really useful.
Thanks
Gaby
Sep 16th at 4:18 am
Thanks for all you do!
Sep 16th at 4:42 am
Interesting!!! Cool!!! Wow!!! Amazing,
Adam.
Sep 16th at 4:51 am
wow cool…..
Sep 16th at 5:10 am
Wow is great, thank for new option
Sep 16th at 5:32 am
the new feature seemes to be more
aggregated at first sight.
Sep 16th at 6:28 am
Can we opt out of any changes if we like things the way they are? Just getting used to the new look of the dashboard and now it’s changing again. What’s the point?
Sep 16th at 6:39 am
nice ……….
Sep 16th at 6:59 am
Some category icons will help more but …wow fast improvements!
Sep 16th at 7:32 am
I agree with Ilah in making it user-selectable. I prefer the current version. What I’d like to see is the option to move or even deactivate menu items.
Smile! Gerrit
Sep 16th at 7:54 am
I don’t really see how changing the location of the navigation links makes much difference: they’ll apparently still scroll off the screen and the column may continue taking up screen space when you scroll down. This could be mildly good or mildly bad, there’s just not enough information to judge it on.
Sep 16th at 7:57 am
Hi i’m new here…Thank you wordpress God speed to all
Sep 16th at 8:13 am
I just want: better search,better search,better search,better search,better search,better search,better search,
Sep 16th at 8:51 am
Great..But we need the ability to checklist some Postings and grouping it to a category..
Sep 16th at 8:54 am
GREAT! It’s wonderful
Sep 16th at 9:33 am
PERFECT nice~
i like it~
Sep 16th at 9:58 am
It looks better and fast…
Sep 16th at 10:01 am
I will take the survey….
Sep 16th at 10:17 am
good idea
Sep 16th at 10:28 am
I prefer a sidebar instead of the top bar menu we’ve been having.
Up next, wordpress should tie down with sites Imeem so users have more choices to put music on their blogs.
Sep 16th at 10:44 am
No, but I like to navigation the one at the top
that is quite ok
Is there an option to use the navigation style we like or we are forced to use side navigation system
Sep 16th at 11:23 am
Awesome! Can’t wait!
Sep 16th at 12:56 pm
Could we have an easy link to the Global Dashboard? It’s become much harder to access for those running heir own installations?
Sep 16th at 12:56 pm
How about the TRANSLATION thingy???
Please scratch that off.
Sep 16th at 2:08 pm
Nice, i like the sidebar navigation layout. Hope they release this version soon.
Sep 16th at 2:55 pm
Wow, this is great. Thanks guys, WordPress just gets better and better!
Sep 16th at 3:59 pm
good idea
Sep 16th at 3:59 pm
Looks like a great revision! Thanks.
Sep 16th at 4:38 pm
I loke top bar menu something like pull down menu, it will pop up when you need it.
When you put left bar menu, it stay there and take some space.
I like the idea of the menu should subtle, you don’t see them when you focus on composing your content.
Please give us the freedom of choice to use top bar menu or left bar menu.
Thanks in advance for your attention.
Cheers,
Sur
Sep 16th at 5:06 pm
Since the survey didn’t ask…
The thing I do most frequently is post. I want to get right to the post page, and once I get there, I don’t want to be held up or otherwise annoyed. So please put categories and tags above the fold and to the side of the edit window.
I’d like to be shown the blog admin pages I most often go to. So, if wp.com could keep track of that, and display them prominently in the dash or in the admin bar, that would help. Perhaps the three I use most frequently?
Thanks for soliciting community input.
Sep 16th at 5:09 pm
Andrew: in 2.7 you’ll not only be able to drag and drop modules on the write post screen to put them wherever you like, you’ll also be able to decide which modules should appear on your screen at all. Tags and Categories on the right side of the edit window and above the fold, coming right up!
Sep 16th at 5:10 pm
nice
it sounds better than this version 
Sep 16th at 5:50 pm
When it will come to free version?
Sep 16th at 7:04 pm
good stuff
Sep 16th at 7:53 pm
hahaha….love it…
Sep 16th at 9:47 pm
Since I started in February I’ve survived two lots of learning curves – couldn’t we just leave things the nice way they are? Or at least give the option? As someone above said, I just want to post in the quickest time, and changing things causes delays and uncertainties. Bloggers blog! They don’t need permanent twiddling and fiddling with the look of the thing. I reckon most of us would prefer new themes or more widgets… and for myself, I don’t even need that.
Sep 16th at 10:19 pm
cooool
Sep 16th at 10:51 pm
coool
Sep 16th at 11:20 pm
Wow! That’s really nice!!! mmm…. Free version???
Sep 17th at 12:28 am
Sep 17th at 1:40 am
YES, YES – for “menu option” !
Please do not “FORCE” a sidebar menu in your new design – not everybody has high-res monitors. At the very least, please make it so that if you use the sidebar menu format, then make it so it can be completely collapsed with a simple click (disappear). Otherwise, on lower res monitors the vertical disign will be far too invasive within the content of admin pages and cause either display gliches (perhaps within WP default admin pages, and maybe within some plugin option pages) or create an annoying need to scroll horizontally.
Sep 17th at 1:42 am
wordstretch: The shift in navigation placement comes after usability testing showed us that the current system takes up so much room on monitors with lower resolution that very little working area is above the fold by default. This is true on many laptop screens as well. The narrow left side menu is intended to provide the greatest working area on the screen possible.
Sep 17th at 1:44 am
i like sidebar from < wp 3. it more easy to manage our widget if we choose 2 sidebar theme. We don’t have to switch between sidebar 1 and 2. Just my opinion.
Sep 17th at 2:16 am
GREAT!
Sep 17th at 2:52 am
Looks Awesome
Sep 17th at 4:43 am
Cool navigator bar
Sep 17th at 4:49 am
very nice.
Sep 17th at 6:26 am
it seems the navigation will be a lot easier, i will be waiting for that.
better to keep each user pick their own preference in this ‘layout’.
but overall, wordpress is the one!
Sep 17th at 7:30 am
nice
it sounds better than this version 
Thanks.
Sep 17th at 9:28 am
so cool
Sep 17th at 11:55 am
That’s great! Can’t wait for it to come out.
One feature I’d love to see improve is My Comments (and a couple of other sections of the Dashboard), that only allow you to see your past history on one Page…so any comments you made that are older you currently can’t see.
Sep 17th at 12:29 pm
Great, its useful
Sep 17th at 3:06 pm
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. The navigation, like the rest of 2.7, is a work in progress, and we’ll be taking everyone’s feedback into account while we focus on making decisions that will address the biggest problems in the interface and help the most people improve their blogging experience. As we address more areas of the admin tool, such as the dashboard or the new post screen, we may post more surveys to gather additional community feedback.
Sep 17th at 4:30 pm
Wow..so cool!
Sep 17th at 5:37 pm
Very lovely! NICE!
Sep 17th at 10:16 pm
Very Good!
Sep 18th at 2:11 am
I would like to see more themes with custom headers.