Summer Cleanup
August 17, 2012
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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I love it!
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It’s like the dashboard is on a diet and that diet is working.
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Great little changes! You’re right, I don’t use those two features much. Nice work WordPress!
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Sounds like you guys are bored.
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Great idea, but why put an “s” on Feedback? It’s a collective noun.
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I haven’t used those features yet but it makes sense to me.
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Sweet!
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Yeah, I agree. It makes for more a more streamlined view. I like the change.
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Great update. These are also features I don’t use very much and as Jan said above, the diet is working!
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Much better use of space! Great work! 🙂 ~Samrokk
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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.
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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.
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I do not use it much either but will like knowing when it is there. I can know it is up to snuff.
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i love it..thanks
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Thank you!
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Thank you! As a blogger so new I’m a zygote I need all the help I can get.
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Whatever is offered by way of improvement in our blog is welcome step. We stand by you in your endeavor. Thanks.
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Thanks a lot. It makes posting much easier.
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That makes sense. Thank you.
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Thank you for doing that WordPress, great clean up!
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yes i like it.
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It looks clean ❤
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This is perfect! The Dashboard looks cleaner and better organized now. Thanks!
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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.
🙂
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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 🙂
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Thank’s your informations..
but I still doubt…
please help me
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oohh, Yess Mr Eoin..
thank you very much, Now, I know
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Thank You!!
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I agree, it works very well for me too, when the dashboard is clean and user friendly! Thanks for the cleaning up! 🙂
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‘change is always ends up being for the good’, not all the time but here that saying is applicable!
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Thank you Eoin, As a new user, I would have to agree!
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A nice little addition for those of us on smaller screen sizes. The addition of notifications on Feedbacks would make it perfect.
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Good job! THX
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Actually it was easier all in one place and visible at the main level in the menu.
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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.
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Lovely, I love these new little little modifications. Makes life fun and easy with WP 🙂
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I have genuinely enjoyed the WP experience!
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thanks ..thats great!!!!
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Very convenient, love it……
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Great! Thank you
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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.
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Thank you! Its like you got right in my head!
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This will take a little getting used to, but seems like a good idea! Thanks again 🙂
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nice and clean, i like that!
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it looks so nic<3
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This is good simple change,thanks!
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more sweets upgrade from WP, just can say wow…
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nice….still learning
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It’s Great! Simplicity is always best!
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I like that !!!
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grt job
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Awesome..thanks mucho!
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I like it! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
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Thanks for the update. Sounds like a great idea.
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woow.. Thnx
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Good Job! 🙂
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That is great wordpress
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like it 🙂 wok wok wok
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Thank you very much x
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Coool!! 🙂
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Seems a good idea.
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Good to know…
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I hope it works out good
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good
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great, very thoughtful changes indeed!
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Polls??? Like when we vote?? Good move to clean up.
Feedbacks? Plural?
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Cool !!!
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awesome!!!
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