Now that I'm not on my cell phone If anything, the layout is … terrible. It's too much information, not laid out in any helpful way. As with WikiPedia, most users start in the middle of the Codex. A search for 'WordPress how do I make a theme' comes up with http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development first, which is as it should be ;) A Wiki's not a book (says my mentor over and over again).
We should revert to what we had and THEN go forward and rebuild it. Except that I went back to the Before shot and it was this: http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=108003 That too is way too much information and not enough organization. If it's more than a couple scrolls, no one's going to read it. I'd break it out so 'Getting Started' is the brunt of the page. We have a lot of links going to subsections of pages, which either means each link should be a page of it's own, or we trust they're going to read. The amount of duplicated information is adding to the length, and it's almost overwhelming for me, and I know what I'm doing most of the time ;) (And I lie well the rest of the time!) http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Ipstenu/Main_Page After I yanked out all the dupe info, there was a lot less going on. I left off the "Developer" stuff, as that really should be it's own page. Actually, most of that stuff should go on the FAQ pages, where a cursory skim shows most of the info, with links, actually is already. ---- Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu) http://ipstenu.org On 24 Aug 2011, at 4:37:48PM, Andrea Rennick wrote: > I just tried to access mailing list archives and can't get to > http://lists.automattic.com/ in Chrome, tho it could be me as Firefox was > fine. > > Anyway - I had been thinking about a multisite section on the front page as > well. Just to toss that out there. > > A. > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Lorelle on WordPress > <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Otto. Which brings up the decision to leave it as it is and fix it or > put it back to what it was. > > Has anyone talked to Spencer who made the edits? Is he on the mailing list? > (Wishing for our own P2 still. :D ) > > Lorelle > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Lorelle on WordPress > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm also concerned as I don't recognize the person who edited all these > > changes. The front page of the Codex should have been locked down for > > editing only by those with the highest levels of administration as it has a > > long history of spam. It was locked down. > > Protections may have been removed a while back when the codex went > wacky. I reprotected it. If it needs to be reverted or unprotected let > me know. > > -Otto > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > > > > -- > -- > Andrea Rennick, http://wpebooks.com and http://ronandandrea.com > Co-author of WordPress All-In-One For Dummies http://rml.me/aio > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs _______________________________________________ wp-docs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
