Update the Right Now box when publishing via QuickDraft

[nacin]

When you publish a new post via QuickPress, it'd be cool for the Right Now box to then ++ the number of published posts.

Quick proof of concept patch attached.

[nacin]

Other thoughts:

1. Updating the tags count would be cool too, but it'd require some more tricks and re-engineering.

2. The selector I used in the POC patch for the actual '# Posts' link is janky. Additionally, someone without edit_posts wouldn't have a link there, so we would need to account for that. (But, someone without edit_posts wouldn't have QuickPress by default either...)

[filosofo]

There's already inline JavaScript in the markup printed by that widget. Why not add some more and have it update the post count with the actual number as determined by number_format_i18n()?

And may as well give those count wrappers some ids instead of a particular response message. Then it's really simple:

var pCount = document.getElementById('post-count-link');
if ( pCount ) 
   pCount.innerHTML = '<?php echo esc_js( number_format_i18n( wp_count_posts( 'post' ) ) ); ?>';

[nacin]

There's already inline JavaScript in the markup printed by that widget. Why not add some more and have it update the post count with the actual number as determined by number_format_i18n()?

Sounds like a good idea to me. And yeah, we'd need to supply an ID. Hence why I insulted my selector. (Patch was just a quick POC.)

[nacin]

Patch here, but it needs an update. Also if QuickPress is changed in the 3.1 cycle then we will need to take that/this into account.

[jane]

Punting as we are entering beta. Can reconsider with 3.2 and updated patch.

[chriscct7]

This is now QuickDraft. As such the RightNow only counts published posts not draft ones. Therefore it works as intended now. Closing as invalid