I am agreeing with the idea of reverting it back and having a
solid discussion on what needs to be there.
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lorelle/Front_Page_Project
I've started a user page for us to work on this together. For
many years, I've wanted a simple, clean "What do you want to do
with WordPress?" feel, much like the Windows ad campaign years
ago. We need to funnel people to the areas of the Codex where
they can find the help they need, so let's make it really easy.
I've been working on the answer to that question over the years
and it boils down to those few answers. Take a look and see what
you think. Do you feel the same way? Then let's start looking at
how we can group the subcontent together to keep this clean and
simple.
Thanks!
Lorelle
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Mika A Epstein
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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
<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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Lorelle on WordPress
> <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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