Wp-calypso: Posts: consider support for "Quick Edit" functionality to match wp-admin

[jblz]

The core list allows the ability to quickly edit lots of things without opening the full editor:

The Quick Edit link is revealed on mouseover

Clicking it expands the post listing to allow the ability to edit a slew of meta-data:

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There's currently no apparent equivalent in the posts lists (https://wordpress.com/posts/:slug):

Clicking the More button doesn't show it:

[mcsf]

Or... we strive to make the editor so fast that any edit is a quick edit. 🤔 If that can be achieved, then the remaining problem that Quick Edit addresses — and that we'd want parity for — is batch editing.

[lancewillett]

I agree with Miguel here. The idea is the editor is fast to load and easy to use such that quick edit isn't needed. It was important in wp-admin's full-page PHP load context, but not so in the React JS model of Calypso.

[jblz]

I agree that an instantly-loading editor is a noble goal, but in practice, I'm not convinced it's going to be the case in the near term.

Some composition of the Editor sidebar could be rendered instantly & provide readwrite access to many pieces of meta data that don't necessitate loading & rendering the content-related portions & supporting code.

The use case I'm thinking of is needing to successively edit a series of posts with some manual process (i.e. one where bulk editing won't be useful)

[lancewillett]

Pinging @lsinger and @shaunandrews for a Link opinion on this flow.

[lsinger]

I tend to agree with @jblz here. The editor will always need to load more than just meta data — images, text, widgets, etc. — so it will always be slower when compared to a "quick edit"-style mini editor that doesn't leave the post list.

Sure, we could cache / pre-load things, but already the changing around of UI components takes time and, maybe even more importantly, requires people to adjust to a completely new screen (the editor). The editor isn't only computationally more expensive, but also cognitively.

I'm sure that regardless of the computational efficiency of the editor, a "quick edit" editor that doesn't leave the post list can make sense.

[alisterscott]

Keeping this open as we still don't have this functionality

[alisterscott]

This is related to bulk editing and deleting raised in https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/10742

[shaunandrews]

Or... we strive to make the editor so fast that any edit is a quick edit.

Its this. This is the answer.

[alisterscott]

Its this. This is the answer.

That doesn't address bulk editing though which is another benefit of quick edits

[shaunandrews]

I'm not sure how this is related to bulk editing — which is coming.

[mattsherman]

Agreed. Bulk editing is a separate concern. I'm not convinced that we also need quick edit. What are some specific use cases where this would be used?

[jblz]

I'm not sure how this is related to bulk editing — which is coming.

Isn't bulk editing just quick editing of greater than one post? What am I missing?

[shaunandrews]

Isn't bulk editing just quick editing of greater than one post? What am I missing?

Or, you could say quick editing is just bulk editing of one post.

I think the point here is that we don't have plans to offer a "quick edit" experience for a single post.