How to sort posts by author in the newer, stupider Wordpress
I got annoyed with Wordpress’ counterintuitive changes in version 2.5. Version 2.6 changes nothing I’ve noticed, except introducing a few new glitches. I haven’t really kept up with this post, where I was listing fixes and workarounds for it. Rather than try to keep it all in one (rather painful to read) post, I decided to make a tag – Wordpress 2.5 sucks – which you can check for new posts on new fixes.
Don’t get me wrong – I love the auto plugin updates. Love ‘em to pieces. But what they did to the write page and manage posts page… it defies logic. It can only be explained by a shift in focus from people who blog on computers to teenagers in Geography class blogging on their iPhones. I wish Wordpress and the teenybops the best of luck together. I’m not switching platforms for now, but only because one day I intend to have sites that need a paid blogging platform, at which point I’ll switch platforms.
So… there is a way to sort posts by author in the new, stupid Wordpress without using the PJW plugin (which works flawlessly, but annoys me by showing up as a plugin that needs updated, but the update takes you to the Contact Form plugin, so if you forget and update, you have to reinstall the whole plugin – plus, I like to use as few plugins as possible). The way to sort posts by author is not, as it was in 2.3.3, to go into the Manage Posts page and use the “authors” drop down. That would be too intuitive. (I’m guessing Wordpress thinks teenybops would be turned off by the idea of group blogs because they’re completely self-centered?)
No, the way to do it in Teenybop Wordpress is:
Go into the Users tab. See your authors’ names? See the number on the far right for how many posts they’ve written? That number is a link! Click the link! And then you’re back at the manage posts page, only with just that author’s posts.
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1 Comment »
July 16th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Bang on again with a post that perhaps … but not likely someone at Automattic, Inc would read … are there no mainstream boggers who will tell the emporer his suit is still back in the closet?
WordPress … please stop the madness! You had a great product back in 2.3 days. If there were security holes (there are in _any_ software) then fix the holes. Do not take what works and break it. I have barely finished fixing all the issues caused by 2.5 “upgrading” (and it use the term very losely), now a whole new can of worms has opened.
We need way to mange posts, authors, etc. We don’t need cell phone size screens and to have the commands in 2.3 removed or hidden. It is acceptable practice to add on … but you don’t use a hand grenade to destroy what you had, first. And don’t leave it in the hands of pluig in authors, the same commands should be included in the core program.
I really, really need to change platforms, I’m sick of having the one-finger salute which I have to accept because I didn’t buy the damn thing. Sad, how something so nice and useful has been crashed and burned by people who should have known who their freinds are … *sigh*