[wp-forums] Finding Codex Articles and Help

[lorelle at cameraontheroad.com]

There is a page on the Codex that lists the most "popular", most visited 
pages on the Codex.  It may help you to determine which articles are the 
most in demand.  This is not a page to point a user to, it is just as a 
reference for you to use to find the most commonly sought Codex articles 
and issues.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Special:Popularpages

On my website I also posted the "list" of the links to Codex and 
WordPress related sites that come up the most on the forum.  You are 
welcome to use that list at http://www.cameraontheroad.com/?p=600 to 
start to build your own resource list. There is also a list to technical 
articles about WordPress and WordPress references outside of the Codex 
at http://codex.wordpress.org/Technical_Articles.

As has been said before, there is nothing wrong with posting a link to 
an article on the Codex that will help the person. Describe what the 
article will help with, and give specific help if you can, but if the 
article will "hold their hand"...let them have it. ;-)  More 
importantly, with the focus on "Search First", six months or two years 
from now people will search and find these links to Codex articles as 
well as the help in the thread and be thrilled to have found the answer 
they need. We're building a huge resource here.

We also have articles that are specifically targetted towards new 
beginners, the ones that title their posts with HEEEEEELLPPPP and 
ARGGGHHHH. These are now categorized under this link: 
http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress#WordPress_for_Beginners

For those who are new to helping, you can use HTML in the forum posts 
for links like the last one, tuck them into link tags like this:

<a 
href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress#WordPress_for_Beginners">WordPress 
For Beginners</a>

Again, if you find any topics worth of inclusion in the Codex, list them 
here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Codex:Tasks#Forum_Posts_to_Articles

Thanks,

Lorelle