<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 19 Jun 2010, at 12:02, Simon Blackbourn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'm not too sure if the hackers list is the right place for this, but<br>following on from the latest discussions about LTS, not supporting old<br>versions of WordPress, encouraging people to upgrade, etc, plus the<br>announcement that the core team are now planning to spend some time on<br><a href="http://wp.org">wp.org</a>, documentation, etc, maybe it's time to remove all the sections from<br>the Codex referring to old versions of WordPress?<br><br>Sections such as these appear all over the place:<br><br><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts#Parameters:_WordPress_2.5_And_Older">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts#Parameters:_WordPress_2.5_And_Older</a><br><br>http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages#List_Sub-Pages (that<br>even has a section for versions prior to 2.0.1!)<br><br>The Codex is seen as official and therefore authoritative, so these give the<br>impression it's fine to still be running these old versions. Surely one way<br>of encouraging people to stay up to date is to remove such outdated content?<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>This sounds reasonable.</div><div><br></div><div>The best place to discuss the codex is the wp-docs list - CC'd</div><div><br></div><div>That way you can interact with all the volunteers who write documentation but are not subscribed to wp-hackers</div><div><br></div>Cheers<br><div>
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