Comments on: WordPress Wish List

By: Sajid Latif

Sajid Latif — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:26:00 +0000

That theme is useful for me and hope for others also. Nice Work…

Thanks for sharing…..

By: George Loughton

George Loughton — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:55:51 +0000

I’m with two hands for some sort of backup option – this is needed!
In regards to the plugins, I’d like to see not the automatic update but rather the automatic compatibility check. Because if it works – why change?
And also about themes… I don’t understand why would someone often change the theme? One can do it once every 5 years but more often? – I’m not sure because in my view theme is like a website face. You build and tweak it long and hard and don’t change easily.

By: anirban roy

anirban roy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:14:30 +0000

wordpress do update so frequently nowadays that the built-in core update option would hav been so useful! anirban roys last blog post..how to set gmail as your default mail client in FF3

By: TheSpot-er

TheSpot-er — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:51:59 +0000

Oh, but you are wrong David!

That was just a short list of wishes that a pure MUST HAVE I’ll come up with some more in due time … Thanks for feedback, I have been playing around with new version and testing it.

Alex

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:52:46 +0000

Good news for you…a lot of your wishes are already available in 2.5 (the RCs right now) and another one or two are pretty likely!

1. Built-in backup. Not in the pipeline that I know of, but like you said, there are at least two good plugins I know of.

2. Core updates. I’d consider putting money on this being in version 2.6 or 2.7 depending on how hard it is to do, given the status of #4 below.

3. & 5. Install plugins from within admin interface. Someone just suggested this for a Google Summer of Code project on the wp-hackers mailing list today, and Matt Mullenweg piped up the he thought it would be a great idea, and he also likes the idea of expanding this to themes. His support means this has a pretty good chance of happening, esp. if the GSoC project gets approved/picked!

4. Plugin auto-upgrade. This was in 2.5 RC1 and is even better in 2.5 RC2. It even tries to do it directly on the file system and falls back to FTP (prompting for your credentials) if that fails. So it’s already there…no more wishing!

That leaves 1 as not likely (they could have done it already, it’s easy enough and the plugins exist) and 2 as a future possibility, with the other three either there or a near-term possibility. I think you need some new wishes

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By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:33:42 +0000

I’d just be happy if they could fix the WordPress bug that makes code disappear when you switch back and forth between the visual and code views in some browsers.

By: TheSpot-er

TheSpot-er — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:06:06 +0000

Barbara,

I had a similar thinking but as I have learned it doesn’t work very well what you can do is create a folder with all your plugins and update them in one swoop but it will still require activation and configuration, which to my best attempt is unable to “duplicated”. There is more to the plugins activation then just the database entires – it seems. So keeping a reference file with all your settings for copy/paste alone with folder I mentioned above might be your best option ..

By: Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert)

Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:38:57 +0000

I would like a one-click Wordpress duplication goodie. Once you have setup all the plugins you use, you can then duplicate the options and transfer them to another site (without having to go zipADeeDoDah with zip files/etc.). Enjoy, Barbara Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert)'s last blog post..Simplifying Wordpress category hell - Utilize The Evil Temptation of Overkill