My plugin gets added to WordPress core!

WordPress 3.5 was released yesterday[1].ย After upgrading my site, I checked the editor screen and noticed a tiny tweak that made me smile. It looks likeย my humble suggestion finally made it in to WordPress core.

Screen Shot 2012-12-11 at 11.59.41 PM

Notice the Add Media buttonโ€ฆ itโ€™s an actual button!ย The previous version of the button looked like this:

The old Upload/Insert button or link

It was an easily overlooked text and icon combo labeledย โ€œUpload/Insertโ€ . This caused problems for users as Iโ€™ve discussed before.ย I donโ€™t know if this small change to a more clickable and noticeable โ€œAdd Mediaโ€ button happened because I suggested it, but Iโ€™m glad itโ€™s there. So after suggesting this usability improvement to the WordPress core team, their developers took notice and made it happen[2].

WordPress-usability-improvement-ticket

Thanks, WP devs. Also, I didnโ€™t suggest the name change, but good choice on the new wording from โ€œUpload/Insertโ€ to โ€œAdd Mediaโ€. Much better.

Footnotes

  1. wordpress.org Back to reference 1
  2. core.trac.wordpress.org Back to reference 2

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