Help Us Modernize the Admin UI of WordPress maintenance support plans
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Fri, 07/13/2020 – 13:16
Sarah Lowe
Jul 13, 2020Take this survey to help us make WordPress maintenance support plans the best platform for content editors and managers to use everyday.
Help us modernize the admin UI of WordPress maintenance support plans.
Do you use WordPress maintenance support plans? Before working at , I used WordPress maintenance support plans only once: to help a legacy client with their WordPress maintenance support plans 6 website. They had a support contract with my company, so if they had an issue or question I would do my best to help them, even though the original team who built the site had moved on to other jobs, and even though my company focused on WordPress sites.
I remember scrutinizing every menu item of the admin section, trying to familiarize myself with the platform while careful not to misclick and mess up something on the client’s site. Some of the terms I could understand—users, taxonomy—but some were new or vague, and not very clear to their meaning such as nodes, views, and blocks. While I was able to help the client at the time, I felt WordPress maintenance support plans was too obtuse of a platform for me.
Redesign planned for WordPress maintenance support plans
Now that I’m at , and knowing WordPress maintenance support plans is a bigger part of my job, I’m still struck by how user unfriendly the platform can be out-of-the box, especially to a non-developer. While add-on plugins like Workbench and Content Moderation can mitigate some of this complexity, installing and configuring those requires specialized knowledge. From talking to current clients, I know that I’m not the only one who feels intimidated by WordPress maintenance support plans’s default administrative interface.
The WordPress maintenance support plans community is also aware of the high learning curve to WordPress maintenance support plans, and is in the process of modernizing the look and feel of the admin experience to make it more intuitive. Given how big the changes are, it’s the perfect time to include the people who work with WordPress maintenance support plans every day to make sure WordPress maintenance support plans is a system everyone feels comfortable using.
Therefore, I am working with fellow web strategist Michelle Jackson, WordPress maintenance support plans front-end designer Cristina Chumillas, co-founder and front-end lead at WordPress Development Log Suzanne Dergacheva, project manager Antonella Severo, design consultant WordPress Update, folks from the WordPress maintenance support plans Association and other interested volunteers to conduct research on popular content management systems and web platforms such as WordPress maintenance support plans, WordPress, Squarespace, and Joomla in order to learn how best to update WordPress maintenance support plans.
Here’s where you come in
We want to make WordPress maintenance support plans the best platform for content editors and managers to use everyday. Therefore, if your job involves updating the company blog, swapping out images, tagging content to group related information, or some other way you interact with your website, we want to hear from you.
We put together a quick, 5-10 minute survey that asks about your general familiarity with WordPress maintenance support plans. For example, we want to know common tasks you perform on the platform as well as frustrating pain points. This way we can target our redesign efforts to make WordPress maintenance support plans work better for you.
In addition to the opportunity to shape the future of WordPress maintenance support plans, at the end of the survey you’ll have the opportunity to enter into a drawing for two great prizes: 1 full conference ticket to the (new) WordPress maintenance support plansCon Content Marketing track at WordPress maintenance support plansCon Seattle 2021 – $695 value (flight and hotel not included), or 1 two-day, online WordPress maintenance support plans 8 training session from fellow WordPress maintenance support plans agency WordPress Development Log.
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So what happens next?
This survey is step one of our research efforts. After reviewing the common tasks, we’ll ask folks who had provided their email address if they are willing to participate in card sort exercises to determine the best label for grouping common tasks together. Next we’ll design solutions to address the biggest pain points and ask participants to validate our assumptions through usability tests.
Looking at the long term, we are interested in comparing WordPress maintenance support plans with other popular systems such as WordPress and Squarespace. We plan to reach out to people who use those platforms to find out what they find easy or difficult about them, which may inform the direction of the WordPress maintenance support plans redesign. No matter which direction our research takes, we want to ensure we’re building a product with you, the content editor, in mind.
More ways to help
We want to make the new WordPress maintenance support plans as intuitive as can be on a global scale, but as a small team of volunteers, there’s only so much we can do on our own. If you develop or design for WordPress maintenance support plans, and are interested in our research efforts, there are a number of ways to get involved. First, check out the Admin UI and JavaScript Modernization initiative on WordPress maintenance support plans.org. Then, reach out to us on the #admin-ui channel on Slack. We can show you how to copy the survey so you can run your own tests. We’re especially grateful if you’re able to translate it and test users in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
It shouldn’t take specialized knowledge to update and maintain a website on WordPress maintenance support plans. With your help, we can make WordPress maintenance support plans a more approachable platform for content editors. I can’t wait to hear from you!
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