[wp-design] Links manager

khaled Abou Alfa brokenkode at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 12:17:59 GMT 2005


I've got a final couple of things to do on Joen's latest version and then we 
get everyone's OK, and we're ready to rock and roll to the next stage :). 
It's easy from now on :)

On 9/10/05, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 23:55 -0700, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> > It seems like you guys are going to expand to another page soon, now
> > that write seems pretty well covered.
> >
> > I was talking with Ryan a few minutes ago and we both agreed that the
> > most hideous page in WordPress these days is the links manager. Anyone
> > up for taking a stab at it?
> >
> 
> Some thoughts...
> 
> Having preferences for each link category is a bit pathological. Does
> each category need a separate sort order, for example? Let's choose the
> sort order once and apply it to all link categories. The same goes for
> all of the other toggles.
> 
> I think before, between, and after should be eliminated. Theme authors
> usually hard code these values so that changes made in the link manager
> don't bust their themes. Layout should be controlled in the templates,
> not the DB. I don't know of any themes that reflect changes made to
> these fields, so let's axe them from the UI.
> 
> Adding a link category should require one piece of information: a link
> category name.
> 
> Ryan
> 
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