-1 to removing the ability to group bookmarks. I think it's very useful to be able to have named groups of links. I rely on that feature in several themes that I have developed.
I think we need a way to group bookmarks in "folders" but we do not need the ability to have sub-folders, i.e. folders within folders. - Dave On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi team, once Gaurav's patch removing blog subcategories is in place, and > the simplifications this switch incurs realized, I'd like us to do the same > with our blogroll page--namely, remove sub-bookmarks (bookmark folders) and > incorporate blogitem ordering in its place. I imagine the blogroll page > will look closely similar to the (upcoming) category page -- a straight > list of top-level blogroll items and up-and-down arrows of some sort to > facilitate ordering of them. As part of this switch, we'll be pulling out > the "Import bookmarks via OPML" option, as few use OPML and its value is > greatly shrunk once we move from a tree to a list for blogroll items. This > change will also result in the bookmark table being simplified from a > hierarchical to a flat structure (i.e., no more parent bookmark column), > just as is being done with categories. > > The blogroll page is primarily for novice and intermediate bloggers and > nearly all of them would be fine with a single-list of blogroll items, as > indeed virtually all blogrolls are formatted as lists anyway. The handful > of more advanced users looking into maintaining a tree of blogroll links > can still accomplish that via template modifications (manually adding the > HTML links into the side-column template), an approach many would be taking > even if trees continue to be supported in the blogroll page. (I never use > the blogroll page myself, I just manually configure my blogroll links in > the side column template anyway along with the formatting I desire.) So I > think this change will nicely tighten up and further simplify the Roller > code and UI, helping increase its adoption, while not preventing blogroll > trees for the relative few wanting them. > > WDYT? > > Regards, > Glen > >
