I am agreeing with the idea of reverting it back and having a solid discussion on what needs to be there. <br><br><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lorelle/Front_Page_Project">http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Lorelle/Front_Page_Project</a><br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>Thanks! <br><br>Lorelle<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Mika A Epstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ipstenu@ipstenu.org">ipstenu@ipstenu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Now that I'm not on my cell phone<br>
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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 <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development</a> first, which is as it should be ;) A Wiki's not a book (says my mentor over and over again).<br>
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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: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=108003" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=108003</a><br>
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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!)<br>
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<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Ipstenu/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Ipstenu/Main_Page</a><br>
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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.<br>
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On 24 Aug 2011, at 4:37:48PM, Andrea Rennick wrote:<br>
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> I just tried to access mailing list archives and can't get to <a href="http://lists.automattic.com/" target="_blank">http://lists.automattic.com/</a> in Chrome, tho it could be me as Firefox was fine.<br>
><br>
> Anyway - I had been thinking about a multisite section on the front page as well. Just to toss that out there.<br>
><br>
> A.<br>
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Lorelle on WordPress <<a href="mailto:lorelleonwordpress@gmail.com">lorelleonwordpress@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thanks, Otto. Which brings up the decision to leave it as it is and fix it or put it back to what it was.<br>
><br>
> Has anyone talked to Spencer who made the edits? Is he on the mailing list? (Wishing for our own P2 still. :D )<br>
><br>
> Lorelle<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Lorelle on WordPress<br>
> <<a href="mailto:lorelleonwordpress@gmail.com">lorelleonwordpress@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I'm also concerned as I don't recognize the person who edited all these<br>
> > changes. The front page of the Codex should have been locked down for<br>
> > editing only by those with the highest levels of administration as it has a<br>
> > long history of spam. It was locked down.<br>
><br>
> Protections may have been removed a while back when the codex went<br>
> wacky. I reprotected it. If it needs to be reverted or unprotected let<br>
> me know.<br>
><br>
> -Otto<br>
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