Mosin Mark

But I again I respectfully disagree, The end user community is who actually has to live with these changes. Even Microsoft has learned that Windows 8 has a small portion of the market place. Their own telemetry shows that 85% or more of the end users are still using Mouse and Keyboard. To force an e commerce end user into a new interface that is geared toward a touch screen is inconsiderate at least and down right foolish at worst. I don’t understand why the developers couldn’t simply give US the ability of choosing which design we wanted to use. Not having a choice is simply asking for blow back. The fact is the way these updates are presented it’s almost like it’s a mandatory update. So many end users simply hit the update button thinking it’s a security patch. There should be a warning page before you take that next step.

I don’t see why when your developing a new version there couldn’t be an option to have the old the style interface or the new one. Come on how hard could it be. Your building it from the ground up. Make it have the ability to use a Admin template option.

I for one have noticed (for example) the old best sellers graph presented your top 10 selling items in one graph in order of sales. It was perfect for a quick glance at site and product performance, it showed the amount sold for each item at a glance and how much you made. Now I have to go to a vertical stack menu that I cannot compare all items at once, instead I have to open each individual item and click on it separately to see it’s sales. That’s not progress that is a huge step backwards. Why? So the interface can look cool? I used to have a total site sales since launch. Where did that go, did you bother to ask the end users what they wanted for info?

Here is another example, the new graph colors are terrible. Light colors against a light background? Really? The circle graph is another useless tool if your site does not save user data. It simply shows up as a one color circle that uses far to much space for the info it gives.

This is the problem when style trumps function. It’s an admin panel not for front end, it needs to be clean and easy to get around on. I really like the old Woo interface it gave me so much more info than this one does. I also don’t understand why you would delete end user information functions, that makes absolutely no sense.

Thanks
Mark

I think part of the problem is most of the people here that are trying to help are also one the development team and just too close to the new interface to listen to what the problems are.

Suppose that the “classic admin” plugin wasn’t available what would be there answer? It would be the same as it was before the plugin was made. Too Bad, this is what we’ve created your going to have to deal with it. Now the fall back position is “use the classic admin plugin” One can clearly see that they don’t want to change it, they want us to go away.

I’ve read through a ton of the developer threads an not one of them mentions in any of them that we may need to give users the option to go back.

If I wanted a 4 color interface I’d dig out my Apple IIe from of the closet. It uses the same blue, orange, white and black color scheme. I’d bet many of the development team are young people and mobile users, they simply made an interface for themselves. But it’s not a user friendly interface at all. It kills Woo Commerce one of the largest e commerce plugins for WP, sales graphs and data are made totally unreadable because of the idiotic column forcing.

locking the admin to 4 colors also changes plugins data displays. Some data is totally missing because they colors they would normally use are not available. Roll overs don’t display properly either. I could go on.

The real solution would be a simple one. in 3.9 create the ability to choose your admin style. Not a plugin but an actual classic admin panel that has the proper functionality.

I think the reason some of the moderators are taking our criticism so personally is they helped create this beast. They say we should get involved but if everyone on the build team are simply a bunch of [Derogatory comments moderated], and nothing will get change because I or whoever would be simply out voted. That’s why the complaints are here. If we as the end user don’t feel we are being heard or that we are important then the anger and frustration starts showing up in the posts.

The reason I know they have no concern with what we are asking for is look in the UI and Support Threads there is NO mention of any issue here. That is why we feel we are being blown off.

MM

Wordfence! Get it, I bet you 3.8 has just as many security issues.. they just haven’t found them yet. You should be hardening your site. There are some great sites that explain in detail how to harden your WP install.

Mark

I miss the separators, everything just runs together now. Those line between things really helped me know where I was. I’m using Woo Commerce and the only color scheme that works right is the dark.. I really would like the option for the old color scheme until either Woo fixes their color schemes or you allow me the freedom to choose what I would like the admin area to look like

Thanks for the hard work, you just missed it on this one

Mark