Reorder the Admin post editing buttons

[joat]

From an admin or moderator's view, you have the "quote" button right next to the "edit" button.  We have had on several occasions, a mis-click of the edit button when aiming for the quote button and then the mod or admin types a response while snipping what appears to be the quoted text and not realize that they are editing the OP's post and not adding a post of their own with a simple quote in it.  When they click the submission button, the change becomes permanent and the OP's post is now lost with the mod looking like a twit (I can say that becasue I've even done this once; it's a simple mistake when you're quickly skimming posts during moderator duties).

My suggestion is that the buttons are rearranged in the header bar of each post.  Move the edit button all the way over to the right or left while leaving the quote button in the middle.  This gives a buffer between the two and should eliminate the mis-clicking potential.

Thanks for your consideration!

[Stinky666]

joat, personally I prefer it how it is.
To me, it makes the most sense to have it how it is, however, you can easily place them in any order you so wish, just do the following:

Admin > Themes > Layout Templates > Thread > Post List
Lines 53 - 59, you should see the following

                       <div class="controls" style="float: right; margin-top: 10px">
                           <a href="/post/new/$[post.thread_id]" class="button reply-button" role="button">Reply</a>
$[post.quote_button]
$[post.edit_button]
$[post.likes.button]
$[post.select_options]
                           </div>

Move them about, to be any order you wish.

                       <div class="controls" style="float: right; margin-top: 10px">
                                                               $[post.edit_button]
                           <a href="/post/new/$[post.thread_id]" class="button reply-button" role="button">Reply</a>
$[post.quote_button]
$[post.likes.button]
$[post.select_options]
                           </div>

That for example, will make it show as: Edit | Reply | Quote | Like | Gears/Options


Edit:
Just to note, I don't think your "div" has the margin-top, or the float: right.. it may have float:right, but I know I definitely added the margin myself for my custom stuff.

[joat]

Perfect response as I was actually looking at reordering things on our forum myself, but just thought I'd toss the suggestion into the big picture to see if it was a more common issue.

Thanks!

[Stinky666]

Mar 10, 2013 8:06:03 GMT -8 joat said:

Perfect response as I was actually looking at reordering things on our forum myself, but just thought I'd toss the suggestion into the big picture to see if it was a more common issue.

Thanks!

To be completely honest, you're the first person that I have personally seen mention this (not to say it hasn't been mentioned before).
At least with the above solution, it's a nice easy fix.

Glad it could help

[joat]

To follow up, I first tried to move the edit control all the way to the right, but it rendered to the left of the options control anyway. So I moved it all the way to the left and that worked. I think I like that arrangement much better anyway. So my controls are now laid out "Edit - Reply - Quote - Like - Options".