[wp-docs] theme and plugin compatibility pages

[Peter Westwood]

On 9 Jul 2009, at 18:58, mrmist wrote:

> In message <fded39850907090734x404ef98fl803d0e9dccacb189 at mail.gmail.com 
> >, Lorelle VanFossen <lorellevan at gmail.com> writes
>> And thanks for staying on top of this. It's a very important page  
>> that people
>> link to and refer to from all over the web and it's important that  
>> it represent
>> us well.
>
> That's the crux of it all really.  IMO when someone comes and plants  
> 15+ links to essentially one site on this page, it makes it look bad.
>
> My problem as someone essentially trying to moderate that is that -  
> on the face of it - it is 15 separate links to separate themes.
>
> I just baulk at the thought that what is essentially a help site is  
> being used as link fodder.  Mutliple themes may indeed be hosted on  
> the target site, but it's against the spirit of the page, I think.   
> Still, I'm not prepared to get into "undo battles" over it.
>
> Do we need some kind of guidance on the page itself to cover off,  
> say, max links per site, or that if you have a site with many themes  
> it should come under one link?  I think that that should satisfy  
> anyone who has a legitimate use of the page whilst allowing spam to  
> be pruned effectively.
>

The time will come when those pages should go completely and we should  
refer people to Extend.

This of course needs to be combined with a way of the community being  
able to mark plugins/themes on Extend as compatible and compatibility  
being searchable.

westi
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