Post content excerpt has damaged the post list view in P2 backend

[tobifjellner]

The back-end list of blog posts in our P2 (make/polyglots) also includes a long excerpt (often the full text) of the post content in the "Title" column.

Currently in ​https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/wp-admin/edit.php (and probably in other "Make" sites, too, this disrupts the layout. All columns are quite narrow, due to Categories, Tags, and now also Revision notes being shown. As a result, some posts may occupy more than one page vertically.

It's super useful to see at least some of the post content directly in the post list. But could we either

• limit the excerpt to some 200 characters, or
• (better) place the post content in a second row, spanning all columns, for each post?

[tobifjellner]

Screenshot of back-end post list in make/polyglots.

[Otto42]

Go to the upper right hand corner, select the "Screen options" drop down and turn off some of the columns. I would recommend turning off the categories, tags, comments, and latest revision note. For this case.

[dd32]

Alternatively switch to Compact mode (The default) in the screen options which removes the excerpt from display.

This is probably worth reporting as a core bug, I would think that the excerpt should either be a new row in the table and spread over multiple columns or be severely length limited in display.

[tobifjellner]

@dd32

This is probably worth reporting as a core bug, I would think that the excerpt should either be a new row in the table and spread over multiple columns or be severely length limited in display.

Already did. After Otto explained the roots of this problem, I created ​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64264