I’ve been waiting to test out WordPress 2.7 for a long time now – and have decided that beta 3 was stable enough for me… I was exited to see the much discussed rearrangements of the interface. And, I must admit, I’m pretty impressed- The working area on the post page has a remarkably less cluttered feel than any previous versions.
Now, I’ll let the rest of the gang praising this release to the skies and instead bring a little heart burn of mine instead. The write page is again back to it’s customizable old self with a few extra features that let users strip away unwanted elements form the interface. That’s all good and fine, but I am really sad to se that the excerpt field is still locked to it’s position below the main writing panel. Why can’t I move the exerpt up between the title and post input areas. To brag flexibility of the write post interface but maintaining some of the rigidness makes me wonder. I want the exerpt field to be below the title field because that suits my way of writing.
I use the exerpts to control the meta descriptions and, the snipppets in archive pages, and also the single post page, where I like to have the exerpt in bold to guide users to quickly get the gist of the current article.