Add category dropdown to QuickPress in Dashboard

[jane]

This would make QuickPress more useful to people who use categories instead of tags, have been meaning to do this for years.

[bootsz]

Adds Categories checkbox list to the QuickPress widget

[bootsz]

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[bootsz]

This is really easy to implement, but there's definitely some UI considerations to be made (How many categories to show at once? Should some fields be hidden/collapsed by default to conserve space?)

Current patch still has one issue to be resolved, which is that the categories list seems to disappear after submitting the form.

[tar.gz]

FIY, here is another proposal for the improvement of the QuickPress widget: #21754.

I made a mockup variation that includes your categories list:

​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/21754/quickpress-improved-02.png

In my proposal, the list is divided into columns - this should be quite easy to achieve with a CSS media query for the browsers that support it.

[bootsz]

Replying to tar.gz:

FIY, here is another proposal for the improvement of the QuickPress widget: #21754.

I made a mockup variation that includes your categories list:

​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/21754/quickpress-improved-02.png

In my proposal, the list is divided into columns - this should be quite easy to achieve with a CSS media query for the browsers that support it.

Mockup looks good. I brought this up in the UI group chat last week and there was some resistance to the idea of adding categories. Reason being that it might be a "slippery slope" toward adding too many things onto QuickPress/The Dashboard. We definitely want to make sure to keep clutter to a minimum. Still, if anything I think categories should take priority over tags anyway, as they're generally more important.

[helen]

QuickPress got even more simplified and became Quick Draft. No longer applicable.

[t0nnyh0ang]

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