Open Discussion: WordPress Devs Should Focus on Search and Category Management
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Hi,
Good work on the latest WordPress update, but here’s what I think you should focus on for the next updates.
You could focus on the category management and the search feature.
I’ve used WordPress for nearly 3 years now (almost every day) and one thing that really needs improvements is the search.1 Add “exact title search only” again. Add a dropdown field to the search where you can actually select SEVERAL search options. I had to change your query.php to this to get the more useful “exact title search” back
$search .= "{$searchand}(($wpdb->posts.post_title LIKE '{$n}{$term}{$n}'))";
//$search .= "{$searchand}(($wpdb->posts.post_title LIKE '{$n}{$term}{$n}') OR ($wpdb->posts.post_content LIKE '{$n}{$term}{$n}'))";
2 Category management is important. For example it is still way to difficult to BULK manipulate categories. e.g. let’s say I want to remove a secondary category from all posts within a category. Yes, the new category editor is nice, but a real bulk management tool would be better so we don’t have to waste time on going through lots and lots of pages or write SQL queries to achieve the same.
I’ll probably hire some coder to program something like it for me and will make it available for free when I have the time
3 The admin dashboard is relatively slow when you have a lot of articles, I think it’s time to improve it
There are more things I don’t remember right now but I will post some more feedback when I have time.
Best,
Oliver
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