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Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#43084 new defect (bug)

dashboard confuses published posts count with all posts — at Initial Version

Reported by: awardpress's profile awardpress Owned by:
Milestone: Awaiting Review Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 2.7
Component: Posts, Post Types Keywords: has-screenshots
Focuses: ui, administration Cc:

Description

the following is a good first bug for new contributors, IMO!
because it's very easy to fix
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/good-first-bugs

in dashboard, in "at a glance" section there's a misleading link:

  1. its hyper reference uri leads to list of all existing posts

/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=post
there are currently 26 posts in my blog

  1. its label is "8 posts" where 8 -- is the number of currently published posts

/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=publish&post_type=post
there are currently 8 published posts in my blog

  1. its icon is the pushpin. and the pushpin usually means sticky posts

/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=post&show_sticky=1
there are currently 1 sticky post in my blog

thus, as you can see, this link confuses "all posts (26)" with "published posts (8)" AND with "sticky posts (1)"
I know, Wordpress uses pushpin icon to indicate any post, so, maybe, I'm wrong about sticky posts.
But I'm definitely not mistaken in that you cannot label the link as "8 posts" and make it refer to the list of 26 posts -- it should be fixed.
Either label should be "26 posts" or it should go to list of published posts.
IMO, the latter choice (lead to published posts).

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