[wp-docs] Long pages

[Peter Westwood]

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Michael E. Hancock wrote:
| From: "Matt Mullenweg" <m at mullenweg.com>
|> I'm going through WP and adding contextual help and links to the Codex
|> where appropiate.
|>
|> But one downside of pages like the above is to link
|> to a specific concept, like page templates, I have to link to this:
|>
|> http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_your_own_Page_Templates
|>
|> That URL will break if anyone changes the heading for that section. It
|> also tosses someone in the middle
|> of a longer piece without context.
|
| Using section links can be hazardous--don't know how many times I've
| directed people in the forum to
| http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates
|
| This is even a problem with sections addressed by other articles in
Codex.
| There's the "What links here" tool but that only 'tests' the article
name,
| not sections.  Invalid sections are not shown as invalid links, even when
| that reference is to an invalid section in the same article.
|
| One thing you can do is place [[Category:UI Link]] in those articles that
| you link in the WordPress core.  Then, periodically the links in the core
| have to be checked.  It's not much, but short of Protecting the
article not
| sure what else you can do.
|

+1 to splitting out the pages so that those linked by the UI are
individual pages.

+1 to this new Category

Should we also add a template to the pages and lock them for general
editing?

westi
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Peter Westwood
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