[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #3130: Proposal for category improvements

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#3130: Proposal for category improvements
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 Reporter:  markjaquith  |       Owner:  markjaquith   
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  accepted      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Taxonomy     |     Version:  2.1           
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  needs-patch   
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Comment(by vteixeira):

 @jane: I will post here the same thing I posted on another ticket but it
 was marked as duplicated ticket.

 I think I must write what I think and why I'm calling this a bug:

 If you want to put the post assigned categories at the top of the list
 this is OK, but it should never break the hierarchy, never.

 Breaking the hierarchy confuses the user and makes it almost impossible in
 some circumstances to find the proper category to select.

 When I have lots of categories this is even worst. If the post is assigned
 to the parent category and one child, the other child categories will
 appear at the bottom of the categories list totally isolated from the
 parent category making it very difficult to find them and to know that
 those categories are child of the one our post is assigned to. See the
 problem?

 I have a test case (a site that I'm building right now) that beautifully
 illustrates the problem on the worst scenario: I have lots of child
 categories with the same names, ex: Parent1 -> national, international;
 Parent2 -> national, international; Parent3 -> national, international; So
 I have different Parent categories names but the same child category names
 for each parent category. How am I supposed to find the correct child
 category to apply for my parent category?

 Usability bug.

 What really confuses me is that on the post quick edit the categories are
 OK (it's just not indented), the problem is just on the Edit post screen.

 Just something I want to add: there are two tabs on the categories box on
 the edit post page -> All Categories and Most Used. If you select the Most
 Used tab it will already show the assigned categories at the top without
 hierarchy, so why should the All Categories tab break the hierarchy to
 show the assigned categories at the top? It's already done on the other
 tab!

 Let's keep it the way it is intended to be: a list of categories and
 subcategories - respecting the hierarchy, please.

 This is a real usability problem.


 Scribu already made a plugin correcting this:
 [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-checklist-tree/ Category
 Checklist Tree]

 But we just want to see it on the core.

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