WordPress 2.8 just hit the public and I already upgraded but there is one feature I would love to see which is not there (maybe it’s not even ‘wanted).
Something what happened several times over the past few month was that I wrote my post locally and than went over to my browser — currently Safari 4.0 formally Safari 4 beta and earlier Firefox 3 — and copy/pasted my post into the admin-interface of WordPress. That is pretty easy but I’m often doing that at a early stage of the post to write it within the WYSIWYG editor of WordPress. OK I could use some nifty blogging application like MarsEdit but I’m not — at least currently — cause none of them provide the features I would love to see. So I’m online doing my edits and than scheduling my posts.
Doing so far is no problem. It’s easy and even a browser crash is easily backuped via the WordPress Post Revisions. But I often store drafts online to be published someday — sometimes I even save post ideas as drafts and not as local files. And there is the problem, if I sort through the posts I’ve stored as drafts and delete some I don’t want to write. But what if I come back later and want to get one of my ideas back—that is impossible, they are gone for ever!
What about a WordPress Trash? OK, you get asked one more time, after you clicked the ‘delete’ Button, if you really want to delete that post, but what if you wanted to delete the post previously and come back about 2 hours later cause you rethought and changed your opinion about the post?
I think it would be nice to have a WordPress Trash to store deleted items — posts as well as pages and media files — with the ability to delete them if I want to (just like my Mac OS X Trash) and maybe some settings to tell WordPress to automatically clean up the Trash after, lets say 14 days.
Maybe a 2.9/3.0 feature or plugin? I would love the feature!
