I’ll likely have the opportunity to fix or improve some unusual things next month, well outside my area of expertise. I’ve been thinking about making Writing Prompts and blogging streaks more interesting 🙂 and I’m looking for other ideas.
Is there one or more changes on WordPress.com you’d love to see? Open to suggestions.
Here’s a cat to grab your attention 🙂
Veselin.blog 
This may not be what you are looking for, but here’s my request. When working on my laptop on the posts page, (list of all my posts) under each title are a number of links and I find it very easy to click on the trash link. Can that be put somewhere else? Thanks for this opportunity! Maggie
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I know you asked for one, but I have two (one minor, one likely more significant). There used to be a “Drafts” in the “New” dropdown/plus sign in the admin panel. There is no one-click way on the interface anymore to jump to a draft you’ve been working on. I miss that. It now involves clicking through several screens to get to your drafts. That’s my minor change.
The more significant change would be to have better parity across web/Jetpack/mobile web for Reader. The web Reader needs some help (or it might be my use of chromium-based browsers), but stars and Gravitars seem to be disconnected between the notifications and the actual reader comments. There are other details, but that seems to be the most obvious area for improvement — blank Gravitars and missing stars in the full panel that appear in the notifications panel seem to be an oversight. Again, as I have said, it might be because I usually use Opera or Chrome (or it might be an extension, I guess, but I don’t run many of those).
Let me know if you need me to explain anything better.
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A one-click way to go to drafts can be introduced, this is doable.
Interesting, this could be a bug – one using gravatar (user’s avatar), the other the blavatar (blog’s avatar).
I don’t understand, what stars? Could you send me a screenshot of a blank gravatar and a missing star? You can upload it to your media library and paste the img source here as a comment.
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Here is what I’ve seen. It seems to happen inconsistently and my self-hosted blog might be part of the problem (although I use the standard Jetpack plugin and am otherwise light on plugins or significant modifications that should impact it). Some days, it seems like every site I follow, today more constrained to my site:
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Could you also share a link?
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Not sure if this is what you’re looking for. Let me know if you want/need something else:
https://wordpress.com/reader/feeds/167865350/posts/6026825632
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Thanks, I’ll investigate and as a minimum file an issue that will go to the right team.
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I agree that the list of writing prompts needs to be expanded. They just seem to cycle; so many days it shows that I’ve already answered the question.
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Anxious to see what changes.
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The goal is to fix things that don’t work rather than change things that work well.
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Perfect.
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Better writing prompts, bring back AI enhance for post and correct statistics. Not much to ask. HAHA
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I mentioned AI Enhance for posts earlier, but I still have issues with publishing my post in someone else’s voice.
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Get rid of ALL ai stuff from the core. This is supposed to be genuine blogging, not fake lazy non-writers. Let the ai stuff be used strictly through plug-ins so only those who want it can use it.
Lots of other stuff too, but really, ai exclusion is top of my list. I want genuine people actually writing, not clicking a button.
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Stats are the second biggest thing on my list.
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As I was reading your post, i just remember how some apps, e,g. Duolingo, will send reminders, stickers, and messages to remind the participants of their daily practice or participation. It really works and I think it will work for wordpress too as a reminder for bloggers to keep joining the club with whatever genre and style they prefer.
Changing the daily prompts questions is definitely a great idea. I think most of the bloggers have been looking forward to receiving new ones.
They can be more than questions. They can offer other challenging and creative ideas; like pictures, an extract of a book, or even a puzzle which are all open to creative thinking with no specific answer.
Hope this can help
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I was thinking about adding a pet photo sharing invitation somewhere in the mix 🙂 But I also have a spreadsheet with about 400 prompts.
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One thing I’d fix? The gap between WordPress.com’s managed simplicity and what you can actually do when you need real control. You hit a wall fast if you want custom post types, specific plugin functionality, or anything that requires touching the backend. I get why the guardrails exist, but there’s no graceful middle ground. A “developer tier” that unlocks SSH or limited WP-CLI access without forcing a full migration to self-hosted would solve this. You’d keep the hosting convenience and get an escape hatch when you need it.
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The Personal plan supports plugins but it is a bit confusing as it transfers you to another environment before you can upload your first plugin. This is a bit confusing it might be better to just mimic the regular hosting dashboards.
I know how to fulfill your request but it is very deep into the business decision making 🙂 I’m looking for easier problems.
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I don’t know how to express this in an actionable way but I wish it was easier to find other writers to read their stuff. Tags don’t really help a lot.
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