No way to search themes in Dashboard

  • davehventurecapital

    (@davehventurecapital)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    We really need the ability to search themes while signed into WordPress. I was given a list of 9 themes to look at by my boss, and all there is in Dashboard > Appearance > Themes is an infinite-scroll list in a bunch of tabs with no search box and they’re not even alphabetized. Very poor UX decision.

    The only way to see how they would look on our site with different customizations is to go to wordpress.org/themes, search for them, then download and install manually instead of just clicking Activate from within the dashboard.

    If someone tells me about a theme, I should be able to look it up in the WordPress dashboard, not have to do a Google search or go to some other site to manually install just to see if it works.

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  • Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Automated Theme installer

    Search by keyword or features: http://codex.wordpress.org/images/8/8a/appearance-install-theme-search.png

    Display by featured, Newest, or Recently updated: http://codex.wordpress.org/images/f/fa/appearance-install-theme-step1.png

    If someone tells me about a theme, I should be able to look it up in the WordPress dashboard,

    If it’s hosted in the Theme Directory, you can find in your dashboard.

    {edit] The layout is slightly different in 3.9.1, but all of the same features are still in the dashboard. After you click on the “Add New” button in 3.9.1 you will see;

    Featured | Popular | Latest | Feature Filter – and the search field is on the far right in the same bar.

    Thread Starter davehventurecapital

    (@davehventurecapital)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    There’s no Add New button in Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, there’s no Search tab, there’s just Trending | Popular | Newest tabs on the left, then ALL | FREE | PREMIUM tabs on the right. I’m on a free wordpress.com subdomain. How do I get what you’re describing and what’s in the screenshots?

    stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    I’m sorry, but you seem to be in the wrong place. These forums are for self-hosted installs of WordPress. For WordPress.com support, try here instead: http://en.support.wordpress.com

    Thread Starter davehventurecapital

    (@davehventurecapital)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Why is that part of interface different for public and self-hosted? That seems like another unnecessary UX issue. If I’m used to using it one way on the free version, then I decide to do a self-hosted, the interface changes and I have to re-learn it?

    What about the paid version where I just go Premium (not self-hosted)? What does the interface change to there? Does it automatically update WordPress versions and plugins?

    Also where are the forums for the free/public version? I have to email support? Can I not use these forums for help with the free/public/premium non-self-hosted version? This is very confusing.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 9 months ago

    WordPress.com is a completely separate entity from WordPress.org (self-hosted).
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    For all WordPress.com queries please use WordPress.com support. The forums for WordPress.com are here: http://forums.wordpress.com

    Thread Starter davehventurecapital

    (@davehventurecapital)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Can you please just tell me if the interfaces and features are different for the WordPress.com hosted product (which has free sub-domain or paid sub-domain or paid full domain) and self-hosted? So far there’s three products here but you’re only indicating two support forums (which is ridiculous to begin with):

    WordPress.com-hosted free sub-domain
    WordPress.com(-hosted?) paid-for domain
    self-hosted domain

    Please indicate where the differences are and where I can see them.

    stephencottontail

    (@stephencottontail)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    The first link that Andrew posted has a pretty good rundown of the differences between .com and .org, but to sum it up quickly: .org is for self-hosted WP installations, you get more flexibility at the cost of more required knowledge; .com is hosted by WP, they do a majority of the work for you, but you can pay to have more features added. When you use WP.com, regardless of whether it’s a free subdomain or a domain name that you pay separately for, you can use the support forums that Andrew linked.

    Thread Starter davehventurecapital

    (@davehventurecapital)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    You guys have missed my questions.

    What are the interface differences of the different WordPress setups? There are three (maybe four) and you guys have only mentioned two.

    1. WordPress.com free sub-domain
    2. WordPress.com paid sub-domain
    3. WordPress.com paid domain
    4. Self-hosted

    Your screenshots showed the self-hosted interface which looks different than my free WordPress.com sub-domain. I want to know not only what other differences there are there from a self-hosted, but what differences there are from those and the other two I mentioned.

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