[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20956: Navigation changes: Posts/Pages

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#20956: Navigation changes: Posts/Pages
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 Reporter:  jane         |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  UI           |    Version:  3.4
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:  needs-patch
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 1. Explaining the difference between Posts and Pages to new users is time
 consuming and often frustrating. We've all done it, have our best/fastest
 version of the talk down pat, but it still takes longer than it should to
 get many new users to the point of understanding the difference.

 2. Back in 2.7, when we set up the left navigation we put Pages at the
 bottom of the content nav section because in testing 2.5/2.6 so many
 people complained about accidentally clicking Posts/Pages by accident
 because they were close together in the old UI and both started with P
 (blame it on capital_p). Because of this, Pages falls below the less-
 frequently accessed areas of Media and Links, and people don't necessarily
 see it right away because they expect it to be higher up.

 I've been testing out two changes to the left navigation aimed at reducing
 these two issues on my test blog for some time now, and have been using it
 during demos with both new and existing users to great success, so I think
 it's time to propose it for core.

 Change 1: Change the Posts label to Blog. All Posts can remain as is, or
 could be reduced to just Posts, since the reason we added the All in the
 first place was that Matt thought it looked weird to have the same word
 shown twice.

 This change reduces the amount of time it takes me to get a new user
 really understanding the difference between posts and pages by about 75%
 (very informal testing, have kept track with about 30 new users by just
 keeping an eye on the computer clock to see how long it is before we move
 on). The dynamic blog/static site difference is much easier to grasp when
 they see that familiar word Blog instead of Posts because "posting" is an
 action that applies even to static content, and even posts are displayed
 in web pages (vs Pages).

 Change 2: move Pages up the menu to sit below Blog, so the two most
 important content types are at the top. Since they wouldn't look similar
 (ha ha capital_p) there would be much less risk of accidental misclick
 based on letter shape (poor manual dexterity would not be affected, but in
 that case those people are already clicking the wrong things, right?)

 I've attached a screenshot showing what the navigation would look like
 with these changes.

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