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Summer Cleanup

We’ve made a minor change to the dashboard menu to help tidy things up a little.

We figured that the Polls and Ratings menus were taking up too much space as top-level menu options. So we decided to move both Polls and Ratings under Feedbacks to minimise the amount of dashboard space these options take.

Poll settings are now under Settings->Polls.

Rating settings are now under Settings->Ratings.

Custom poll styles are now accessed via the poll editor.

We hope this update will make the dashboard a little more streamlined for you this summer.

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by Eoin

Posted: Friday, August 17th, 2012 at 10:55 pm. Filed in Administration, Dashboard.
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  1. Edwin - Awkwardlist.com
    Aug 17th at 10:59 pm

    I love it!

  2. Jan Simson
    Aug 17th at 11:02 pm

    It’s like the dashboard is on a diet and that diet is working.

  3. New Heights Dance Ministry
    Aug 17th at 11:04 pm

    Great little changes! You’re right, I don’t use those two features much. Nice work WordPress!

  4. Pete Howorth
    Aug 18th at 12:52 am

    Sounds like you guys are bored.

  5. good2kno
    Aug 18th at 12:58 am

    Great idea, but why put an “s” on Feedback? It’s a collective noun.

  6. Doug Oldfield
    Aug 18th at 1:19 am

    I haven’t used those features yet but it makes sense to me.

  7. Eric
    Aug 18th at 1:29 am

    Sweet!

  8. Matt George
    Aug 18th at 1:55 am

    Yeah, I agree. It makes for more a more streamlined view. I like the change.

  9. Maylana
    Aug 18th at 2:22 am

    Great update. These are also features I don’t use very much and as Jan said above, the diet is working!

  10. samrokk
    Aug 18th at 2:28 am

    Much better use of space! Great work! :) ~Samrokk

  11. Vaneeesa Blaylock
    Aug 18th at 3:00 am

    hmm… they probably didn’t need to be top level, but splitting the settings to “settings” and the content to “feedback”… so that now to do a Poll or Rating I have to go to 2 different tree: Settings AND Feedbacks – that just doubles the chances that I won’t remember this and will either be unable to find one part of it, or at least that I’ll have to hunt for some period of time first.

    I think the impulse here is a good one, but I’m uncertain about scattering pieces of this functionality to different places.

    • Eoin
      Aug 19th at 8:57 pm

      Thank you for your comment. I think it makes sense to move the Polls and Ratings settings to go under the Settings top level menu, as most settings for the different features across the platform can be found here. We’ll see how it goes though, if it causes confusion, we can re-access the location.

  12. myaimgroup
    Aug 18th at 3:23 am

    I do not use it much either but will like knowing when it is there. I can know it is up to snuff.

  13. jarimanisindonesia
    Aug 18th at 4:16 am

    i love it..thanks

  14. rgovind26
    Aug 18th at 4:20 am

    Thank you!

  15. kimberleelockhart
    Aug 18th at 4:21 am

    Thank you! As a blogger so new I’m a zygote I need all the help I can get.

  16. Harbans
    Aug 18th at 4:21 am

    Whatever is offered by way of improvement in our blog is welcome step. We stand by you in your endeavor. Thanks.

  17. pheranmi
    Aug 18th at 4:41 am

    Thanks a lot. It makes posting much easier.
    Sent from my BlackBerry Porshe-072t wireless device from MTN

  18. artnip
    Aug 18th at 4:57 am

    That makes sense. Thank you.

  19. Melissa Bessey
    Aug 18th at 5:11 am

    Thank you for doing that WordPress, great clean up!

  20. earthmindme
    Aug 18th at 5:50 am

    yes i like it.

  21. violenthue
    Aug 18th at 6:18 am

    It looks clean <3

  22. Ayesha
    Aug 18th at 6:26 am

    This is perfect! The Dashboard looks cleaner and better organized now. Thanks!

  23. David Bennett
    Aug 18th at 7:09 am

    I don’t make the mental connection between the word ‘Feedbacks’ and the Contact Form on my blog.

    I get notified of messages in my Contact Form by email so it’s not a problem – except I am not sure that I see the spam messages by email – so maybe I would miss a false positive?

    Meanwhile, I wonder how often people within the WordPress developer community or people looking at their dashboard say or think to themselves:

    … But there is no word ‘Feedbacks’ – it’s a non-count noun and the plural of Feedback is Feedback.
    :-)

    • Eoin
      Aug 19th at 9:07 pm

      Thanks David, I know I do :)

      There is some history behind how Feedbacks came to be used, but I’m not best informed to answer. It may well be changed at anytime to Feedback – watch this space.

      With respect to the connection between Feedbacks and Contact form, well I guess this form is also known as a Feedback form. Each response is classed as feedback, and as we all know the plural of Feedback is… Feedbacks :)

  24. zainarifinrochmat
    Aug 18th at 7:27 am

    Thank’s your informations..

    but I still doubt…
    please help me

  25. armyofskulls
    Aug 18th at 7:35 am

    Thank You!!

  26. LightHouseBlues
    Aug 18th at 8:18 am

    I agree, it works very well for me too, when the dashboard is clean and user friendly! Thanks for the cleaning up! :-)

  27. babzytellsem
    Aug 18th at 8:24 am

    ‘change is always ends up being for the good’, not all the time but here that saying is applicable!

  28. jiltaroo
    Aug 18th at 8:47 am

    Thank you Eoin, As a new user, I would have to agree!

  29. Jennifer
    Aug 18th at 8:49 am

    A nice little addition for those of us on smaller screen sizes. The addition of notifications on Feedbacks would make it perfect.

  30. ladadala
    Aug 18th at 10:04 am

    Good job! THX

  31. rdquinn
    Aug 18th at 10:35 am

    Actually it was easier all in one place and visible at the main level in the menu.

  32. harno
    Aug 18th at 11:39 am

    Good. There are a few other locations that need quite a bit of rooting around for – don’t seem that logical if you’ll forgive me saying.

  33. freebirdmani
    Aug 18th at 1:24 pm

    Lovely, I love these new little little modifications. Makes life fun and easy with WP :)

  34. hattiesburghappenings
    Aug 18th at 1:32 pm

    I have genuinely enjoyed the WP experience!

  35. evaliasaputra
    Aug 18th at 1:37 pm

    thanks ..thats great!!!!

  36. rottlm
    Aug 18th at 2:11 pm

    Very convenient, love it……

  37. drishism
    Aug 18th at 2:17 pm

    Great! Thank you

  38. timethief
    Aug 18th at 2:36 pm

    I like this thoughtful change for Polls and Ratings that takes those using smaller screens when viewing our blogs into account. The move also results in notifications we didn’t have before and that’s a good thing too. Thanks for all the work you do to improve our blogging experience.

  39. voyrrr
    Aug 18th at 2:57 pm

    Thank you! Its like you got right in my head!

  40. christrocks
    Aug 18th at 4:00 pm

    This will take a little getting used to, but seems like a good idea! Thanks again :)

  41. tom
    Aug 18th at 4:21 pm

    nice and clean, i like that!

  42. Akash Aftab
    Aug 18th at 6:10 pm

    it looks so nic<3

  43. gpsnavigationapps
    Aug 18th at 6:56 pm

    This is good simple change,thanks!

  44. jujubandung
    Aug 19th at 3:23 am

    more sweets upgrade from WP, just can say wow…

  45. sbogney12
    Aug 19th at 11:45 am

    nice….still learning

  46. luiscastrorants
    Aug 19th at 11:51 am

    It’s Great! Simplicity is always best!

  47. anity2003
    Aug 19th at 1:31 pm

    I like that !!!

  48. houndgadgets
    Aug 19th at 10:11 pm

    grt job

  49. free penny press
    Aug 20th at 12:02 pm

    Awesome..thanks mucho!

  50. Jungo
    Aug 20th at 2:59 pm

    I like it! Thanks for taking the time to do this.

  51. Bette A. Stevens
    Aug 20th at 6:18 pm

    Thanks for the update. Sounds like a great idea.

  52. seungipeh
    Aug 20th at 11:01 pm

    woow.. Thnx

  53. ajewelrymasterpieceforyou
    Aug 21st at 2:30 am

    Good Job! :-)

  54. douglaslutaaya
    Aug 21st at 7:28 am

    That is great wordpress

  55. linarfad
    Aug 21st at 10:36 am

    like it :) wok wok wok

  56. emmabskin
    Aug 21st at 9:35 pm

    Thank you very much x

  57. bowsbybelen
    Aug 22nd at 3:03 pm

    Coool!! :)

  58. Val
    Aug 23rd at 1:40 am

    Seems a good idea.

  59. ericlahall
    Aug 23rd at 1:55 am

    Good to know…

  60. eorji
    Aug 24th at 9:18 pm

    I hope it works out good

  61. khaatumosate
    Aug 26th at 11:07 pm

    good

  62. worldofbeautytips
    Aug 28th at 7:53 am

    great, very thoughtful changes indeed!

  63. Patricia
    Aug 29th at 7:16 pm

    Polls??? Like when we vote?? Good move to clean up.
    Feedbacks? Plural?

  64. solomonsworld
    Aug 30th at 12:40 am

    Cool !!!

  65. Spy Girls
    Aug 31st at 6:02 pm

    awesome!!!

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