[wp-docs] Administration Panels/Screens needs updating

Tue Nov 22 21:06:19 UTC 2011

Thanks for the update, Jane.

Mika, looking good and agreeing with you on the Admin Bar. Go for it.

Lorelle

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Mika A. Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>wrote:

> English has been tightened and the images of the Screen Options are
> 3.3-ified.  (Okay, it's wrong, but editing the HTML via Chrome's inspector
> to be more 'vague' and less me was so silly and fun!)
>
> Maybe the Admin Bar could be it's own little 'section' and not such a huge
> CHUNK of text at the top?  Seeing that would make Newbie Me feel like this
> wasn't the page I wanted to show me what all the standard bits and togs
> were.
>
>
> On 22.11.2011 14:41, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:
>
>> You did some great work on it, Mika, we just need to lead them to the
>> water faster. It's not that it isn't unimportant, just to the point.
>>
>> Thanks for letting me know the bar got shifted (no pun - okay, pun.
>> :D ).
>>
>> We had it originally set up so that page offered a TOC layout with
>> links to the specific panels on subpages. Now the whole thing is back
>> into a single page. Just trying to brainstorm some ways to make it
>> clearer and easier to navigate and process.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Lorelle
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Mika A. Epstein  wrote:
>>
>>
>>  We're in feature freeze, but (for example) the admin bar got
>>>
>> shifted
>>
>>> around a little in regards to which was where (Screen Options and
>>> contextual Help menus in particular).
>>>
>>> I added in 3.3's admin bar stuff, but left in the 3.0-3.2 data,
>>> since there's going to be a while before everyone upgrades, and
>>>
>> I've
>>
>>> noticed that having the 'Yes, it was there, now it's here' info
>>> helps people in the Network page.
>>>
>>> However I don't think that should be extended to the less ... um
>>> ... not important, but I hope y'all know what I mean, footer
>>> section, which is now a menu item.
>>>
>>>  Aren't we in freeze mode yet?
>>>>
>>>> Most of the stuff needing fixing isn't very version specific,
>>>> mostly
>>>> cleaning for cleaning sake as it's too wordy and takes to long
>>>> to get
>>>> to the point.
>>>>
>>>> You are the master at beautiful language, so I'll let it in your
>>>> loverly hands!
>>>>
>>>> Lorelle
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Michael Hancock  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Lorelle said:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/**Administration_Panels<http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels>[1] [1]
>>>>> or http://codex.wordpress.org/**Administration_Screens<http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens>[2] [2]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Whatever they call it, the top of this article needs serious
>>>>> fixing. We need to get RIGHT to the point and move the user
>>>>> into
>>>>> getting the answers they need, not telling them about the
>>>>> history
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> of
>>>>
>>>>  the various panels. Anyone up for it?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Links:
>>>> ------
>>>> [1] http://codex.wordpress.org/**Administration_Panels<http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels>[3]
>>>> [2] http://codex.wordpress.org/**Administration_Screens<http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens>[4]
>>>> [3] mailto:wp-docs at lists.**automattic.com<wp-docs at lists.automattic.com>[5]
>>>> [4] http://lists.automattic.com/**mailman/listinfo/wp-docs<http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs>[6]
>>>> [5] mailto:justmichaelh at gmail.com [7]
>>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] http://codex.wordpress.org/**Administration_Panels<http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels>
>> [2] http://codex.wordpress.org/**Administration_Screens<http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens>
>> [3] http://codex.wordpress.org/**Administration_Panels<http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels>
>> [4] http://codex.wordpress.org/**Administration_Screens<http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens>
>> [5] mailto:wp-docs at lists.**automattic.com <wp-docs at lists.automattic.com>
>> [6] http://lists.automattic.com/**mailman/listinfo/wp-docs<http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs>
>> [7] mailto:justmichaelh at gmail.com
>> [8] http://ipstenu.org
>> [9] mailto:wp-docs at lists.**automattic.com <wp-docs at lists.automattic.com>
>> [10] http://lists.automattic.com/**mailman/listinfo/wp-docs<http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs>
>> [11] mailto:ipstenu at ipstenu.org
>>
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