Even before a new release of WordPress is officially released, the following version is already in the works.
This is one of the biggest reasons why WordPress has become dominate and a crowd favorite. They are always pushing forward and improving the platform. I believe you can make plenty of arguments regarding WordPress as a CMS, but if you’re talking about it’s general ease and use as a basic CMS and robust blogging platform, everything else pails in comparison.
As I enjoy using the latest release of WordPress 3.3, there are some things I hope they address in the next cycle. Others would agree, as I’ve seen Tweets, read Yams, and as WP-SNIPPETS pointed out, there are three prime spots that need addressing:
1. Improve Media Management
The media manager saw a nice tweak in this last release, but it still feels incomplete.
How awesome would it be to categorize your images, too? From a blogging perspective, considering how much web traffic can be pulled in from images, alone, developing a way to categorize images would be awesome. For those of you that routinely use the same image, this could be a huge help, too.
Finally, I would like some batch capabilities. I can upload a batch of photos, why not delete? Or how about being able to resize all your photos in one post?
And best of all: Adding multiple images at once!
I know there are plugins for this, but this junk needs to be native.
2. Improve the Custom Field Experience
The use of Custom Fields and the ease of using WordPress more like a CMS is stunted by the current custom filed experience. I don’t think they’ve touched this from the Admin side before.
How awesome would it be to add check boxes, select boxes and text fields and only have to add a line of could into the WordPress theme?
Oh, yeah.
3. I. Am. Speed.
We all could use more speed, right?
Here’s how the WordPress versions stack-up to each other:
WordPress 3.3 is slower than WordPress 3.2, but as I look at the previous two “hopes” for WordPress 3.4, I can’t help but wonder if that makes this a pipe dream.
What do you hope to see in WordPress 3.4?
[via WP-SNIPPETS]
George says
yes… that is all 🙂
Eric Dye says
LOL! Awesome.
Jason Bradley says
I would agree with everything above. I would like a couple of things myself, like:
Include formatting in the excerpt. It current is just plain text.
Update the security options to include things lithe visible to specific users or groups.
Include the slider that is in the latest wedding theme for wordpress.com from Automatic.
Dynamic or custom sidebars.
Eric Dye says
Some of that you can wrangle WordPress to do, but I’m not sure about the excerpt formatting. As for Automatic, that would hawt.
George says
after some thought.. add syntax highlighting and line numbering to the built in code editor… that would be brilliant!!
Eric Dye says
That would make it far too easy to be lazy – LOL!
(Is there a plugin for that?)
Chase says
The biggest thing I’m hoping for is in the media management vein. For some reason, you can’t pull featured images from URLs not on your server, which totally busts my Amazon S3 for images plan. Just a small tweak that would make my world in 3.4.
Eric Dye says
Bummer. Try this? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-s3/
Chase says
That’s the one I was running when I found out about this limitation. It’s something in the core WordPress code with how they deal with featured images. 🙁
Eric Dye says
LAMENESS! (I hate core edits, too.)
Paul Clifford says
I just wish that instead of “small, medium, and full size” I could start with full size and alter the size so that images matched. I’ve got a client who keeps sending me images to put into her wordpress site that are _almost_ the same size, but different enough that I have to add and then tweak in the html size or in photoshop for each. The difference isn’t enough to cause problems, but just enough to be annoying.
Paul
Eric Dye says
Why don’t you just resize them inside of WordPress?