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  • Heaps more inline documentation from Jac …

    Heaps more inline documentation from Jacob landed. #documentation, #phpdoc

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  • Hailin got a start on adding paging to t …

    Hailin got a start on adding paging to the walker. Need to take this and hook it up to wp_list_comments() to allow comment paging. #comments, #todo

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  • We need to find someone to pick up the t …

    We need to find someone to pick up the theme update and install work. The hookups to api.wp.org are already in. Much of the job can be done with a cut-and-paste of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They…

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  • Drafts now have a real timestamp and are …

    Drafts now have a real timestamp and are ordered properly in the All Posts timeline. About time. 🙂 #ui

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  • More postboxes: The Comments on this …

    More postboxes: The Comments on this Post postbox lists all comments when editing posts. That could be quite a lot sometimes. Perhaps we can have a button there “Show the comments on this Post” or similar that would pull them with AJAX, 15-20 at a time. The Post Slug postbox doubles the functionality of the…

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  • Postboxes: The Custom Fields postbox …

    Postboxes: The Custom Fields postbox is very unintuitive (there’s even a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. about that, #7541). Suggestion: perhaps emphasis the Name/Value fields and add proper labels (“Key” would probably be better as “Name”); replace the drop-down with a scrollable list of previously used “names”…

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  • The Quick Edit for posts/pages looks qui …

    The Quick Edit for posts/pages looks quite bad especially on narrow screens, thinking of making all fields floated DIVs so it can wrap into 2 rows and have enough space to properly show them. Question: when a column is hidden in the table, are we also going to hide the corresponding field while editing? Similar…

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  • UI Todo

    Some of my short term UIUI User interface todos: Add edit and delete links and column hiding to Categories, Tags, Link Categories, and Users index pages. Add column hiding to Comments index. Update edit comment form publish box to new style, move View comment link into publish box Add Advanced Options to edit comment form.…

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  • Take the 2.7 navigation survey

    Take the 2.7 navigation survey #ui

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  • Added a “Close comments for old posts” …

    Added a “Close comments for old posts” setting to Settings->Discussion. This is a popular pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming…

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