You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Wordpress 3.5.1 Visual Editing is not working [migrated]
I've been in trouble with 3.5.1 since I installed it yesterday. Prior to that I had the previous version of Wordpress and everything was fine. Following will define the problem:
Header picture and ...
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Improving cooperative efforts to improve our answer rate
If you all are interested, I think we should find a way to combine efforts in answering questions by creating an indicator that "[screenname] is currently answering this question."
Reducing ...
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Mark unwanted tags (such as plugin-recommendation)
In a comment to a plugin-recommendation tagged question @toscho advised a user of reading the tag's description when/before using it.
This is, of course, a good advise.
However, let's be honest, who ...
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Add Requested Debug Information to FAQ
Reference this question:
Where do I get "Bug Information" to add to a question?
We do often ask people to indicate the debugging steps they have taken. This is a reasonable request, as it ...
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Disable migration targets for blocked users
We got the list of common migration targets recently. Nice. Thank you.
But some users are question banned on at least one of these sites, and we cannot see that early enough. Not so nice.
Please ...
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Link resized images to their full-size version
The Facts
Images inside questions/answers are resized to fit within the container width.
Yet they are stored as is, meaning with their original resolution, for instance.
The Question
Why not ...
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Suggestion for a new flag
As it stands, questions can only be flagged as duplicates if that same question has already been asked and answered. However, all too frequently an impatient user will ask the same question twice (or ...
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Spammers, Unregistered Users, User Names
Within the last half hour, there was some spamming on WPSE.
The post were created by different unregistered users sharing the same name AirMaxUK. So far, all posts have been removed, one of the ...
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StackOverflow migration option
On StackOverflow, there are multiple migration options when you want to flag a post as off topic:
On WP.SE, we only have the option for our meta.
We get a lot questions that are not specific to ...
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Helping low rep users, and chat
A few times now (it is about to happen again), I have been trying to help a low rep user-- usually rep 1 or so-- with a problem and am getting nowhere in the comments. The comment form starts to ...
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Magic Links specific for WordPress Answers
In comments, I'm constantly using the Magic Links: [faq], [ask], [answer] and [about], this last one being quite nice given the About Page 2.0.
Would it be possible to have a couple of WordPress ...
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Expiration of Close Votes
As gleaned from a comment to a different meta question, I learned that close votes "expire" after a certain time period. It appears, though, that those who have voted to close a question are then ...
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Alternative Format Options
At first: the possibilities to format a question or answer is fine. I like the markdown style, also the buttons to use it via click.
But we use not only clients, there have all keys for format a ...
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Is there an alternative to <tt> for inline fixed-width formatting in Questions/Answers/comments?
Many times when asking or answering, or even just commenting, it's desired to have a <tt> or similar functionality. For example, when referencing a function or a variable, you would use something ...
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Please add quick tag edit to question list
When reading through a list of questions, I often see tags that really don't belong to the question. In fact, nearly every second question has tags attached that don't belong there. I really like the ...
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why not use a domain for wordpress.stackexchange.com?
Why wordpress.stackexchange doesn't has a domain for itself? like wpoverflow.com or something else?
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Please add tag to shopping questions when closing/flagging
This is just a general notice: when you come across a 'shopping' question (plugin, theme, hosting recommendation), as well as closing/flagging the question and leaving a comment, please also add the ...
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Tags are getting out of control - sky is the limit
The current situation
Currently we got a rough number of 900+ tags. Which is much too much. Even with having this filter, it's more than anyone could search, as we have different variations of the ...
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Is there any reason WPSE isn't using rich snippets for search engines?
What is a rich snippet?
If you are like me, you have been noticing some new things happening on Google, Bing and other search engine result pages. Many of these changes are related to the use of rich ...
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Make WordPress.com more prominent OpenID option
In interface for OpenID login into the site, WordPress.com login option is buried in second tier services.
It would make sense for our stack if it was displayed more prominently as first tier option.
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Please add zombie features
For the sake of all us, who love zombie movies:
Please add a »28 hours later…« feature.
Wouldn't that look much nicer, than »1 day later« ?
I even added some blood in MS Paint to ...
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Troubleshooting WordPress version N.N - Master List
Regularly, I find myself doing the same comment: "Have you already done a full troubleshooting?"
In this Question I made the following one that brought me to the Meta:
So, ain't nothing we can ...
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Shouldn't notifications methods have some prominence in the FAQ?
Having the SENotifier installed, sometimes I reply in almost real time to comments made in Q&A.
And feel it's a pity the other party haven't got an instant notification, so the problem gets solved ...
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Can we remove tag and title edits from “recent activity”?
Generally speaking, tag-soup cleanup is beneficial and encouraged, right? Well, one downside to such effort is that questions that undergo such cleanup are considered recently active by the system, ...
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Mark Question as Abandoned
Related to Should we close outdated, abandoned questions?
It would be fantastic if we had a way to either manually or automatically flag a question as "abandoned." Many questions are migrated from ...
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Threaded Comments
I've been turning it over in my head a bit recently, and I cannot come up with a good reason why there should not be threaded comments on questions. I do not think threaded comments would be ...
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Ability to deny answers
Every now and then when I post a question somebody places an answer, but does not actually answer my question/solve the problem I am looking for and WPSE treats it as a legitimate answer and it ...
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Is there a way to bookmark useful StackExchange threads from within my profile?
Ok, this may sound a little old-school, but I come across so many threads that I think may be useful in the future or for other tasks and I want to simply click a button, to have them bookmarked for ...
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Visual indicator for “moved”, “closed” and “migrated” Qs
Could we please have some sort of colored background for the Q-states I mentioned in the title?
Maybe…
orange for "moved"
red for "closed"
and blue for "migrated"
Currently they look like ...
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Could we get question block considered to be enabled for our stack?
We get a number of quite hardcore "help vampires" here, and I feel these users really get on peoples' nerves.
Given that suspension is quite an extreme measure, we mods are hesitant to use this ...
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Please update the FAQ to indicate the status of Wordpress.com questions here
Your FAQ is a contract with users: This is what we accept, this is what we don't. At the moment, it doesn't address the issue of WP.com and WP.org.
I understand that the status of Wordpress.com ...
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Links to Codex pages
This is a similar request to this question, (which suggests a feature which would be just as useful).
When questions/answers are linked to, it appears on the right side-bar under a title 'linked'. I ...
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What to do with incomprehensible questions?
Many question on WPSE are incomprehensible as poor translation to English has happened. Sometimes you can get the gist of the question but other times the question is so poorly written that no sense ...
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Allow users with “vote to close” privileges access to the review/close tab
The new review section is very helpful for identifying questions and answers that might otherwise go unnoticed by higher rep users. It would be more helpful if users with "vote to close" privileges ...
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Please make WPSE keyboard accessible
I cannot reach the comment tools without a mouse. Why? The only way to make those visible is on :hover. Since I had to fight all the day with WordPress’ broken new menus I don’t want to use a mouse ...
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Should we extend version tags ban?
We had banned wordress-[version] tags, but had cautiously left possibility of [version] tags for cases where they are really required.
I was not keeping an eye on those and it seems we just got a ...
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Capital P Dangit?
I find myself browsing the site daily and shaking my head in frustration with the number of people who incorrectly capitalize/case "WordPress" in their question titles. It's highlighted pretty well ...
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Should we email derelict drive by users ? With stats now
I think one of the reason we have so many unanswered questions is because vagrant users come by --> ask a question --> get answer and never bother to come back and understand/ know how to vote ( or ...
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Improvements for the UI
As known, there's a high rate of unanswered Qs. Maybe the following improvements help lowering their number:
Show accept rate in "Questions" list view: Would make it much easier to search for people ...
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Give moderators ability to set delayed close on questions with insufficient details
I find myself wasting a lot of (moderating) time on questions that are valid, but don't have sufficient details and are hard (short of lucky guess) to try and answer.
I need to leave comment asking ...
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Provide list of answers as targets when converting answer to comment
(moderator stuff)
Currently "convert to comment" dialog on answer takes ID/URL and defaults to original question. However converting to comment on one of answers is much more common in practice ...
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Is there a way to get an RSS feed of the “Unanswered Questions” feed?
I don't see a link or anything in the HTML ... any way to get an RSS feed of the "Unanswered Questions" section from the Wordpress Answers site?
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Is there a way to do a search on my favorite questions ?
My list of favorited questions is getting longer, and it would be nice to be able to do a search on favorites. Is that possible ?
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`pre` max-height not correct
When looking at the code blocks from the editor, I saw that I got a scroll bar even when not necessary (only a small bit of the last line is outside the pre-viewport). The problem behind this is the ...
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Make external links open in new window/tab
When people post links in their questions and answers when clicking the links they direct you away from the site rather than the link opening a new tab or window.
Personally I find this very ...
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Should there be more control over links in user profiles ?
I stumbled upon a user whose "website" in the profile links to an adult dating site.
In the Content Policy it explicitly states that :
Sexually Explicit Material. Accounts
that use Stack ...
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Could mod bar be made more easy to understand?
(moderator stuff, nothing interesting)
It's not that it's horribly broken.. But it's often freezes my brain, especially on comment flags.
Just look at this...
...and try to quickly figure out:
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WYSIWG Editor enchancment
There are so many Qs on WA that are about taxonomies, custom post types and terms. Most of these Qs are organizational Qs and need to explain their setup. In most cases they try to do this with text, ...
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Layout in unanswered questions looks a bit clunky
A minor design critique: The bottom part of an unanswered question looks slightly inelegant, mainly because of the duplicate use of the icon.
Maybe it's worth getting rid of the icon in this ...
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Filter for people with an heavily unbalanced question to answer ratio
I find that I'm increasingly uninterested in looking at, or answering, questions from people with an out of balance question to answer ration.
Is there any way of filtering out people like this? I'd ...
