Title: Terrible Workflow
Last modified: October 8, 2019

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# Terrible Workflow

 *  [folivio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/folivio/)
 * (@folivio)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-workflow/)
 * WordPress is almost as good as FrontPage was when Microsoft discontinued it. 
   Seriously, why does WP use such a terrible workflow? For example: To edit pages
   you have to click All Pages every time, wait for the list page to load, select
   the page you want and wait again (even on a local server this is a terrible workflow).
   Why not just have a flyout with all the pages listed, like a basic menu does?
   I mean, come on!!! This is archaic. WP has all kinds of things that take the “
   long way around”.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-workflow/#post-12010372)
 * The toolbar at the top has an “edit page” link so always have a link to edit 
   the current page.
 * Trick for using the “all pages” starting place — right click on “edit” and select“
   open in new tab”.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-workflow/#post-12010845)
 * As a note from another point of view…
 * For some sites that I manage, that would not work at all. I’ve got one site that
   has around 50 pages, 450 posts, and ~500,000 custom posts broken up into 6 custom
   post types. Imagine trying to load all of that into flyout menus every time you
   load an admin page… Not only would the menus be ridiculously huge, the admin 
   side of things would grind to a halt trying to process that on every page load.
 * Yes, I do know that’s a (very) extreme case, but even for a site that has 100
   posts/pages/etc, which is easy to do in even a small blog, that’s a massive overhead
   that will just make the menus very cluttered.
 * Steves sugestion is by far the best. If you need to edit page, go to that page
   on the site and hit the ‘Edit’ button in the admin bar.
 *  [Sam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samrobert149/)
 * (@samrobert149)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-workflow/#post-12052002)
 * It often happens and its really not cool. Sometimes the session breaks while 
   editing and you have to reload the page to update the page. I hope WordPress 
   will do something about that.
 *  [Mark Uraine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mapk/)
 * (@mapk)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-workflow/#post-12152831)
 * [@samrobert149](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samrobert149/) it appears
   your problem is different than the original problem stated. When you reload, 
   does it keep your edits? If so, I’d say WordPress is working great! A session
   that breaks isn’t always caused by WordPress, so if WordPress saves your edits
   when the break happens, that’s awesome!

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Uraine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mapk/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/terrible-workflow/#post-12152831)
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