Ok, a serious question that doesn't quite fit into the Q&A area.

Is there currently any "official" plans on improving the very out-dated back-end publishing approach? Last time I heard, Matt Mullenweg believed publishing using WordPress is a lovely experience which is just absurd. For a few years back, I was convinced that WordPress would come with the times and release a stable front-end editor, just like what we have on Medium.

In fact, there was official plans of adding this editor to core but nothing happened.

What's the latest on this front? Why is this not being prioritised? People who go to WordPress Camps this summer, please ask around.

The wp-admin area is a complete goddamn mess.

The next WP update should have the name "WordPress is the new Joomla"... after Matt's binary jazz session where the absence of a clear vision of what the platform is lacking was present.

@ChristineCooper, bashing @matt aside, wordpress unlikely to ever have a front end editor, and I would be super surprised to learn that users actually want such an editor.

front end editors require a strict limitations on the back end, and if you want flexibility you just can't have it. Medium, WiX, etc can have it because they are full of limitations.

And users are unlikely to want it because no one wants to design every new blog post. Content should be about content, not about visual. The whole idea of having a CMS in the first place is to let the software do most of the work for you, otherwise you can just use tinymce as an html editor and just add html pages with no need of PHP DB, uogrades, security etc

front end editor is nice to have to fix content once it is mostly written, but it is a bummer to write a new content in.

@MarkKaplun I can agree with you on this finally :) Never noticed anyone be upset about the editor or the admin area.

However i like joomla!'s admin area more. it has more space to breath!

lol, I am somewhat upset on the admin area, but frankly I have no idea how to make it better

it's not like you can't stand it at all... but it looks like a prison ;)

and the color schemes just suck

do you have so many plugins there as well? Not sure that wordpress out of the box is bad, but once each plugin adds its own, it becomes a mess

no, i actually have only wp-statistic and wp-rating. i do the rest myself

I meant the amount of menu items and the difficulty to find what controls what

yea i know. these 2 only add 2 menu items tho

i hate that sunrise color scheme. i hope they remove it

cant sleep for 2 days if i use it for 5 mins

IMHO complex systems are hard to admin. not sure it can be made easy without getting rid of features

LOL

should be easy to change the color scheme

they can hide or remove the extra features when u dont need it. wouldnt be too hard

like what u do on edit screen, when u click free writing mode

yea it's ez to change it but i dont even like it being in the list xD

:)

is that ur happy face :)

IMO wordpress should not let admin users to edit, this will remove a lot of the noice

then who can edit?

switch user to editor/author

admin should be like linux root. used only when must

that's too hard... a simple ajax would do it i guess. logging out and in will be just cry maker

very easy to use

ok, relatively easy to use

ajax?

no

wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching a must have plugin

for development at least

124 x 5 star

im impressed

not enough, let me star it as well ;)

ok i'll downvote it to balance the issue :)

cant let u be the nice guy, u know.

lol

ruins my reputation :)

wots ur secret?

me friendly?

yes

didnt expect it?

came totally out of the blue :)

yea well im very direct

almost short circuited

O well, need to go on the main site and downvote something to fix my reputation :)

don't worry i'll keep it confidential