Another reason to love WordPress

Posted on Nov 2, 2008 in Design, Web Dev | 0 comments

My adoration for WordPress, the open-source blogging and website tool, is well-documented. As I worked in it this evening I noticed something that simply had to be shared:

(Briefly: WP has two content constructs: posts and pages. Posts are time-related, pages are not and instead let you assign a hierarchy like a traditional website. This panel lets the user assign a page’s place in that hierarchy.)

If you can’t read it, the panel gives instructions and then a caveat about the quality of its purpose:

Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but you can put a number above to change the order pages appear in. (We know this a little janky, it’ll be better in future releases.)

C’mon, how great is that? The developers know it’s not as intuitive as WP’s other features but rather than exclude it, they left it in with this tongue-in-cheek note. Good stuff.

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