Follow Up: Editing Pages in WordPress 2.7

Last week I noted that editing pages - specifically changing a page’s sort order, parent, and template - are particularly cumbersome in the current 2.6x release. I suggested the simple alternative would be to simply expose these common functions on the page manager itself, as well as offer drag-and-drop page re-order to set the page sort order.

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Managing Pages in WordPress: A Wish List

I’m a big fan of WordPress. Sure it has it’s quirks, and no doubt there are probably better platforms out there, but overall it’s really a fantastic a publishing platform. Lately I’ve used WordPress for nearly every freelance site I launch, no matter how small. Out of the box I get clean urls, search functionality, a fairly flexible templating system, and an enormous community of developers behind it.

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