Learning the New WordPress Write Screen

I do find myself using the new Write Panel more than I used to… but I’m still an avid WLW user. I just love it centralizing all my blogs in one place plus a fairly decent WYSIWYG.

I haven’t forgotten – yet – to add the categories, but I do find myself looking for it still. Adding tags I like way better than the old way. I sometimes forgot whether I used plural or singular, Capitals or not.. this is a lot easier for me.

not really a fan yet but I will get used to it.

hate having the comments below and hate the tag system.

the uploading of images seems a lot more of a pain as well.

Don’t even get me started on the widgets.

I think the new admin interface has a lot of usability issues, which make the regular interface almost impossible to use effectivly.

Too many functions beneath the scroll (even with large resolutions) which had been formerly positioned to the right.
I too always forget to assign a category now, ending up with having almost everything in the basic category.

Extra click for scheduling a date to my post, and Wordpress can’t memorize that I do use this function more than frequently.

Why is autocomplete in edit-page-form.php and edit-form-advanced.php disabled?

I can’t see scheduled time on first sight if I manage my posts, only date. I have to hover with my cursor over date, to see the time.

I switched almost immediatley to the Fluency Admin Plugin, which helps to work at least a little effective with Wordpress 2.5.

Don’t get me wrong. I do like Wordpress 2.5 a lot, I appreciate the work and I realized there are a lot of cool new features.

Nevertheless from a usability standpoint this new version is a step back. I heard that a lot of these aspects had been discussed before the release, but were simply ignored (didn’t verify that).

I’m still not keen on it. Like you I miss the category area, and the import image delay is annoying. One thing I do like though is the ability to switch to full screen, so much easier to write.

I find it significant better than the old way of doing things.

I will admit that I have written posts and forgotten to set the category; however, in scrolling down to set the category it reminds of other things that I should be setting, or considering, and so all in all I find it quite helpful.

I agree that it would be much easier if the categories were up next to the write box like before – I also don’t like having to scroll down, and even at that the box that contains the categories is too small and I have to scroll within that box as well. I’m hoping someone will write a plugin to allow one to move the components around to suit the user’s needs (and really, why isn’t this just a built-in feature?)…..

In the meantime, for any Mac users out there, I can highly recommend MarsEdit as a nice tool for writing/publishing blog posts…..it displays the categories to the right like the old version of WP did.

I want to be able to save and continue editing

According to Weblog Tools Collection’s WordPres 2.5 FAQ Version 2:

At first, it may seem like this option doesn’t exist anymore but the SAVE button now acts the same as the old SAVE AND CONTINUE EDITING button.

I do not like the new write panel, I hate the fact that all of the post options are below the text box instead of the right side. I also am having problems with writting posts to have them appear later, if I change the time stamp on the post it doesn’t want to go up when it is supposed to and instead publishes when I hit “publish” even though the time stamp has been changed to a later time.

This upgrade to 2.5 has been a bit clunky in my opinion and I think they changed a lot of things that shouldn’t have been changed.

I’ve been quite vocal about my dislike of some of the changes in 2.5, but it was kinda pointless. Zeldman ignored me and the thread discussing it on the WP support forums was an excuse in futility (in terms of being herad by Wordpress devs) — but it proved to be very useful in other ways as several other people contributed hacks to making the Write screen act more like the old version.

You can grab it from here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/169595