WordPress has a long standing history of providing a good user experience. Publishers, site owners, content editors, all have been able to benefit from the ease of use of the admin. In this talk, we’re going to take a deeper look into the experience of the WordPress admin – how we can extend WordPress to make publishing content a breeze, and how a few changes to the way we approach the admin, plugins, and themes can help make the experience even better.WordPress has a long standing history of providing a good user experience. Publishers, site owners, content editors, all have been able to benefit from the ease of use of the admin. In this talk, we’re going to take a deeper look into the experience of the WordPress admin – how we can extend WordPress to make publishing content a breeze, and how a few changes to the way we approach the admin, plugins, and themes can help make the experience even better.

2. Sara Cannon
Partner & Creative Director
at Range http://ran.ge
@saracannon
slideshare.net/saracannon

5. USER EXPERIENCE

6. - WIKIPEDIA
User Experience (UX) involves
a person's behaviors,
attitudes, and emotions about
using a particular product,
system or service.
“

7. Ux

8. Ux
is important!

9. USERTESTING.COM

10. ACCESSIBILITY
CODEX.WORDPRESS.ORG/ACCESSIBILITY
CARRIEDILS.COM/WEB-ACCESSIBILITY-INITIATIVE

11. USER EXPERIENCE
ADMIN
The Current

13. LIBRARY
MEDIA

19. DISTRACTION
WRITING
FREE

21. No Frills Concentration Editor

23. CORE.TRAC.WORDPRESS.ORG/TICKETS/UX-FEEDBACK

24. USER EXPERIENCE
ADMIN
Improving The

25. &
PAGE REORDERING
DRAG DROP

27. WORDPRESS.ORG/PLUGINS/SIMPLE-PAGE-ORDERING

28. FEATURED IMAGES
COLUMNS
within

31. WORDPRESS.ORG/PLUGINS/FEATURED-IMAGE-COLUMN

32. SORTABLE
COLUMNS

33. WPDREAMER.COM/2014/04/HOW-TO-MAKE-YOUR-
WORDPRESS-ADMIN-COLUMNS-SORTABLE

34. EDITOR
STYLES

36. CODEX.WORDPRESS.ORG/FUNCTION_REFERENCE/
ADD_EDITOR_STYLE

37. add_editor_style( 'css/custom-editor-style.css' );
CODEX.WORDPRESS.ORG/FUNCTION_REFERENCE/
ADD_EDITOR_STYLE

38. &
FEATURED IMAGE
DRAG DROP

39. WORDPRESS.ORG/PLUGINS/DRAG-DROP-FEATURED-
IMAGE

40. MENU
HUMILITY

42. WORDPRESS.ORG/PLUGINS/MENU-HUMILITY

43. THE FUTURE
USER EXPERIENCE
of WordPress

44. BOOKMARKLET
PRESS THIS

48. WORDPRESS.ORG/NEWS/2015/03/WORDPRESS-4-2-BETA-1

49. WP REST
API

50. POSTSTATUS.COM/WORDPRESS-JSON-REST-API

51. - BRIAN KROGSGARD - POSTSTATUS.COM
Developers will be able to
perform nearly all the data
manipulation and data
reading functions that are
possible with PHP, with the
new API.
“

52. ADMIN
THEMES

53. WPTAVERN.COM/IS-2015-THE-YEAR-OF-WORDPRESS-
ADMIN-THEMES

54. HAPPYTABLES.COM

55. PICKLE.PUB

56. WORDPRESS.ORG/PLUGINS/GUST

58. WORDPRESS.ORG/PLUGINS/SLATE-ADMIN-THEME

59. APPLICATIONS

60. DESK.PM

61. APPPRESSER.COM

62. EDITING
FRONT END

65. WORDPRESS.ORG/PLUGINS/WP-FRONT-END-EDITOR

66. VELOCITYPAGE.COM

67. CRAFT THE
EXPERIENCE

68. Thank You
@saracannon
slideshare.net/saracannon
SARA CANNON HTTP://RAN.GE
London