WordPress 2.7 Design Survey #2: Search, Favorites, Future Publish
October 1, 2008 Update: The survey is now closed. Thanks to all those who participated.
Did you get a chance to weigh in on how to structure the navigation in the next version of WordPress two weeks ago? Another round of mini-mockups and multiple choice questions awaits the first 5000 respondents. The WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 is now available to take your opinions regarding:
- Where to put the search box
- Where to put the Add New Post button/favorites menu
- How to label the Future Publish/Edit Timestamp function
The survey (hosted by the good guys over at PollDaddy.com) will automatically close after receiving 5000 responses. That only took about two days for the navigation survey, so hurry over and cast your votes.
When the survey has closed, these links will be disabled and this post will be updated.
Note: If you don’t know what the “future publish” function is, you can learn about it before you take the survey:
- WordPress.com FAQ: Can I schedule a post?
- WordPress.com Screencast: How do I change the time or date for my post? How do I set my post to publish in the future?
- Jane’s blog post about the future publish function
October 1, 2008 Update: The survey is now closed. Thanks to all those who participated.
- September 28, 2008
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great!
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wow!!!!!!!1 klass!!!
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omg omg omg this site is so f***ing amazing!
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Just done! 🙂
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It’s very interesant, I’m look for the new wordpress 😉 byes
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nice
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great, I use this the future publish feature a lot, so its nice to have a small say in what the button will be like. But I still don’t understand why anyone would need a favorites button.
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I can’t wait to use the new 2.7 Dashboard. 🙂
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😀
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waiting for new WP!!
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Can’t wait it…
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done done and done, bring on November with the new wordpress! (not that this one is in need of a replacement or anything!)
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It’s very useful. I’m waiting too
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Can it get any better? Looking forward to more improvements. MadSilence
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I can’t wait! 🙂
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Hooray thanks wordpress 😀
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Done. Favorites would be unnecessary (as would be my list of WP admin bookmarks) if navigation was simpler, but I look forward to the future publish tweaks. Hopefully there will be a calendar with already-scheduled days marked off (or at least with that option). Thanks!
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Seem’s to be cool.
I didn’t understand a word XP
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Nice, Im waiting
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Amazing 😀 thanks wordpress
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Very Good.
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Great news, i hope this would be increase uses of my wordpress. 🙂
I hope this utilities will make my blog become full of power. 🙂
Nice work. 😉
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Sounds Neet But i dont know 😐
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I’ll keep my opinion to myself until I’m positive that I’m in the majority.
“Yes”?
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Awesome 🙂
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why didn’t facebook do this kind of survey?
thanks wordpress
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looking good!
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Hmm…
It’s great…!
🙂
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waiting
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What does the search box in the Admin Panel searches for?
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Superb!!!
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BOMBA!!!
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I like the ability to publish at a set future date.
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*applause* Very cool but favorites indeed is not that necessary, it would just get in the way. Should I say, annoying? It’s just me 🙂
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thanks wordpress….i already done complete the survey……
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wordpress, bravo!!!!
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Thank you for starting my day with good news.
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I really don’t care too much about those features. I’d like to see better/different designs for templates. I know you have many and maybe I’m just picky but I really didn’t see too many I really liked. I came to WordPress because getting a graphic into my header box proved to be so much trouble in Blogger. I got it done here, but it almost swallows my little description of the blog! How about more control over the text in a header to overcome that? Also, I can’t change the font of posts (at least I didn’t see how to in my template!) Things like giving more options to personalize templates would be what I’d like to see.
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good, thanks wordpress
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A favourites menu would be very annoying because it is non-intuitive. We look at, say, for an application, the “Edit” menu and we expect to find “Copy” “Paste” “Select All” and so-on, that is because “Edit” is a category (the “File” menu should really be renamed “Application”) “Favourites” work for browsers because people know what is in them, a directory of sites they don’t remember the URL’s to but want to find again in the future.
Did you catch that, a Directory?
I and everyone I’ve seen using that menu browses through it searching for something. We don’t open it thinking, “I know exactly what I want and where to find it!”
This is why adding a menu that remembers our most used features to an application (such as wordpress(!)) is a very-bad-idea. We won’t know what’s in it.
KDE, Windows, Gnome, Mac and others have tried this concept with their start-menus, this never works because this is not how people expect it to work and not how people actually use it and beside the algorithms that are supposed to figure this all out assume that people work logically and consistently and this has erratic results.
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The idea of the favorites menu (working title, we haven’t officially decided what to call it yet) is that the user would be able to choose what screen links would appear in the menu, not that the system would dynamically populate it based on activity. It would basically function like setting a bookmark in your browser. Personally, I have bookmarks in my browser for plenty of sites for which I do know the URL; it’s just faster to click on my bookmarks bar. That’s the idea here, too, to make it faster to access those screens you use the most. This feature was requested by many users, which is why it’s on the list for 2.7
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Cool
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good
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Amazing changes… looking forward
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Very nice
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Amazingly easy to use. Everything is at a mouse click and where you expect it.
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cool!
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Wow thats awesome (:
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I took the survey! Whee!
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wow!!
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I did the survey but honestly find the favorites thing irrelevant.
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hmm
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If anyone has a problem with the survey loading and gets the Ooops message, keep trying, Eventually it goes through.
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wonderful!
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Sweet
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ouw great 🙂
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I just took the survey. WordPress is the best!
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thank you, nice job 🙂
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If you insist on having a user-editable widget the best way to do this would be to create a tool-bar that can be edit, much like the book-marks tool-bar in some browsers.
This way we don’t have to open the menu to see what is inside it and we have a chance of remembering.
even if we could edit the contents of the “favourites” menu it would be irrelevant to our work-flow. Again, this is not an intuitive catagory, it is something that we would have to think about every single time
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Very good. I like surveys.
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oo la la… amazing…
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I Can’t wait to use the new dashboard for more exposure. I am a newbie to blogging.
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Maybe I’ll also use the search one day … 😉
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I did it, was painless! 😉
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It’s great.Thx…
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Tried several times to do the questionnaire as I had the first one but no dice. It kept crashing 😦
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Nice
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the picture upload component should consider more seriously, particularly for those people have to use a proxy to access to wordpress. that is my suggestion.
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Dying for the new advanced and creative version.
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nice, thank’s
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Awesome
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Great job 😉
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Can’t wait to see the new UI, it should be good.
I still would like us to be able to see a more longer history of your ‘My Comments’ section. Any word on that?
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Its cool! Im waiting.
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Cool!
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Is WordPress 2.7 only going to be available to those at wordpress.org?
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Very nice!
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good one 😉
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Coolio
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Hi Jane,
Great help, Thanks 🙂
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It’s very useful
thanks
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Cool
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bad
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Good idea…….hehehe
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Woa I can’t wait!!! 😀
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Thanks!!!!!!! Its amazing!!!!
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Muito bom!
Thanks from Brazil.
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Nice!!!
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thank you, very good.
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COOL
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I’ll admit that in the last three years that I’ve been using wordpress, I’ve only ever like two of the templates/themes for personal blogs.. any chance we could get a hugeee update on those.. say add perhaps 20/30 ++++ more..
I’m using the albeo right now, mainly cus of the simplistic classy colours.. I think for females, there’s not alot to choose from.
Just a thought. xx
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I love it!!!
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i think i’ll like it
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I missed it 😦
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Thank You Very Much
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The best part about WP is that you guys are open to feedback and more often than implement it. The only complaint that I have is that if I use WP for blogging, any chances of me earning something monetarily is next to nil (if I am not hosting it on my own server).
WP should consider the option of letting their users put a couple of ads on their shared blogs and they can share the revenue as well. Also they can probably put a cap on the number of ads.
God knows when WP would consider this.
Anyways, keep up the good work.
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