{"id":1098,"date":"2017-08-10T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.sacramento.wordcamp.org\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2017-07-19T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T00:27:38","slug":"wordpress-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wordpress-wish-list\/","title":{"rendered":"A WordPress Wish List Complied By Our Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1138\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wordpress-wish-list\/wordpress-wish-list-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wordpress-wish-list.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"550,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WordPress Wish List\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wordpress-wish-list.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/2017.sacramento.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/05\/wordpress-wish-list.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Wish List\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wordpress-wish-list.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wordpress-wish-list-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/wordpress-wish-list-500x273.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WordPress isn&#8217;t perfect and we all have secret wish lists of things we wish WordPress did. One thing I wish WordPress would add is the preserving the editor scroll when you update pages or posts! I hate that every time I save a page or post it takes me back to the top and I have to scroll back down to the place I&#8217;m editing. Hate it. Hate it.<\/p>\n<p>We figured our speakers may have some wish list items too, so we requested their input and asked: <em>What is one feature you wish WordPress would add?<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Here&#8217;s what our speakers had to say:<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Trujillo<\/strong>: An easier way to find quality plugins.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Cromwell<\/strong>: Categories, filtering by type and better search in the Media Library.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cat Scholz<\/strong>: I wish the global search function would search within plugin settings for features such as &#8220;block an IP address&#8221; to take me right into a setting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Taylor<\/strong>: Having a modern PHP requirement rather than an end of life version.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jake Goldman<\/strong>: Content personalization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amber Hewitt<\/strong>: A better way to organize media.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill Conrad<\/strong>: An automatic image optimizer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treighton Mauldin<\/strong>: The ability to start with a more stripped down install.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heather Hogan<\/strong>: A page builder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ivan Villa<\/strong>: A native page builder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cory Miller<\/strong>: It&#8217;s one I&#8217;d want to subtract maybe&hellip; the WordPress Dashboard has gotten overly complex. It&#8217;s time for a refresh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dorothy Kern<\/strong>: A no-follow shortcut.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vasken Hauri<\/strong>: User-specific content.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sallie Goetsch<\/strong>: I&#8217;m looking forward to an improved editor. Gutenberg has a ways to go but is promising. And then we need to overhaul the way widgets are handled.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Locke<\/strong>: The ability to preview a page directly from the editing screen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adam W. Warner<\/strong>: A better editor experience. It&#8217;s coming&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ben Byrne<\/strong>: Plugin dependencies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kim Shivler<\/strong>: Improved search capabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Vanderpol<\/strong>: The ability to pick individual posts for export. Right now all you can do is to specify a criteria and export all posts that match the criteria. You can work around this limitation by assigning posts to a specific author and exporting posts by that author but it would be nice to have a direct selection export capability without having to go through the rigamarole of re-assigning authors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Wefald<\/strong>: Better default search.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin Sainton<\/strong>: I actually wish it would take a few away!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress isn&#8217;t perfect and we all have secret wish lists of things we wish WordPress did. One thing I wish WordPress would add is the preserving the editor scroll when you update pages or posts! I hate that every time I save a page or post it takes me back to the top and I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wordpress-wish-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A WordPress Wish List Complied By Our Speakers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13848243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13848243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}