[wp-docs] The main page.

[Mika A Epstein]

Now that I'm not on my cell phone

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 http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development first, which is as it should be ;)  A Wiki's not a book (says my mentor over and over again).

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: http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=108003

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!)

http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Ipstenu/Main_Page

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.

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Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
http://ipstenu.org

On 24 Aug 2011, at 4:37:48PM, Andrea Rennick wrote:

> I just tried to access mailing list archives and can't get to http://lists.automattic.com/ in Chrome, tho it could be me as Firefox was fine.
> 
> Anyway - I had been thinking about a multisite section on the front page as well. Just to toss that out there.
> 
> A.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Lorelle on WordPress <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Otto. Which brings up the decision to leave it as it is and fix it or put it back to what it was. 
> 
> Has anyone talked to Spencer who made the edits? Is he on the mailing list? (Wishing for our own P2 still. :D )
> 
> Lorelle
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Lorelle on WordPress
> <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm also concerned as I don't recognize the person who edited all these
> > changes. The front page of the Codex should have been locked down for
> > editing only by those with the highest levels of administration as it has a
> > long history of spam. It was locked down.
> 
> Protections may have been removed a while back when the codex went
> wacky. I reprotected it. If it needs to be reverted or unprotected let
> me know.
> 
> -Otto
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