WordPress Wishes

Happy New Year all! I’m looking forward to what will hopefully be an awesome year, with WordPress and otherwise. I thought I’d take the opportunity to wish-o-wish upon a star and toss out some things I think would be really cool to see happen in the WordPress world.

Subscribe To Comments, rebuilt for modern WordPress
This is an incredibly popular plugin, and we use it right here on Digging Into WordPress. It still works with 2.9, but it hasn’t been updated since 2007-12-14. There is no admin panel to speak of, and the management screen that does exist looks like this:

I would love to see this re-built, designed up, and intergrated into the Admin area of WordPress.
Publishing a page, main action button
If you publish a lot of Pages in WordPress, you can feel me on this one.

Approved comments to all admins
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