[wp-hackers] Re: hackers Digest, Vol 9, Issue 7

[Mark E.Payne]

Owen Winkler said:
> There are so many things that *could* be on this page that are of use 
> to
> the common user that this should really be a full-on hook location.  
> For
> WordPress developers, the current feeds might be nice, but I can't
> imagine the average user gives a darn.

> That's my conservative take.  If I fully had my way, the whole page
> would be pluggable, including the Latest Activity section.  The WP dev
> feed would be *completely removed* (as I said, I don't go to my own
> admin console to get WP news) but replaced with an output from a
> special, dedicated high-importance feed containing things like 
> "Security
> Patch Released" and "New Version Available".
>

I totally agree. I don't think most average users really care about the 
dev feed *that* much -- or at least for the amount of real estate it 
takes up. If anything, I think the "Latest Activity" and whatever else 
that is related to the *users* blog should be the main focus with the 
dev feed (or more preferably, some kind of high-importance feed like 
Owen said) being in the area where "Latest Activity" is currently.

And having the whole dashboard pluggable would totally rock. For 
example, say the advanced stats plugin also had the option to display 
stats in the dashboard or Spam Karma told you how many spam comments 
its killed, etc. That would seem to make the most sense to me, keeping 
with the idea of having plugins to add (or remove ( *ahem* 
no-nofollow)) functionality .

Mark Payne
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