[wp-docs] wp-docs Digest, Vol 79, Issue 12

Sat Apr 7 13:38:48 UTC 2012

Lorelle, can we assign individuals to certain doc talks to avoid duplication of efforts?

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>   1. WordPress 3.4 docs (Lorelle on WordPress)
>   2. Re: WordPress 3.4 docs (Chip Bennett)
>   3. Re: eCommerce (Lorelle on WordPress)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 09:51:50 -0700
>From: Lorelle on WordPress <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com>
>Subject: [wp-docs] WordPress 3.4 docs
>To: WordPress Documentation <wp-docs at lists.automattic.com>
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>This is a first look at the new features in WordPress 3.4. It's move fast
>time, team!  Do we have documents on the Codex to back up the new features?
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>* Theme Customizer with Previewer
>* Flexible Custom Header Sizes
>*Selecting Custom Header and Background Images from Media Library
>* Better experience searching for and choosing a theme
>* New API for registering theme support for custom headers and backgrounds
>* Performance improvements to WP_Query by splitting the query
>* Internationalization improvements (improved performance and locale
>support)
>* Performance and API improvements when working with lists of installed
>themes
>* Support for installing child themes from the WordPress Themes Directory
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>Max, are we ready to move your XML-RPC API stuff to the main docs?
>
>What are we missing or what needs beefing up? Remember, we have a to do
>list at http://wpdocsteam.wordpress.com/ and I'll be adding these here if
>we turn up stuff without docs.
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>Are you ready? GO! :D
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>Lorelle
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>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:53:59 -0500
>From: Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>Subject: Re: [wp-docs] WordPress 3.4 docs
>To: WordPress Documentation <wp-docs at lists.automattic.com>
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>Note that add_custom_background(), add_custom_header_image(), and
>add_theme_support() will all need to be updated as well, due to the
>deprecation of the former two, and the expanded role of the latter.
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>Chip
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>On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Lorelle on WordPress <
>lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This is a first look at the new features in WordPress 3.4. It's move fast
>> time, team!  Do we have documents on the Codex to back up the new features?
>>
>> * Theme Customizer with Previewer
>> * Flexible Custom Header Sizes
>> *Selecting Custom Header and Background Images from Media Library
>> * Better experience searching for and choosing a theme
>> * New API for registering theme support for custom headers and backgrounds
>> * Performance improvements to WP_Query by splitting the query
>> * Internationalization improvements (improved performance and locale
>> support)
>> * Performance and API improvements when working with lists of installed
>> themes
>> * Support for installing child themes from the WordPress Themes Directory
>>
>> Max, are we ready to move your XML-RPC API stuff to the main docs?
>>
>> What are we missing or what needs beefing up? Remember, we have a to do
>> list at http://wpdocsteam.wordpress.com/ and I'll be adding these here if
>> we turn up stuff without docs.
>>
>> Are you ready? GO! :D
>>
>> Lorelle
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>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 10:19:09 -0700
>From: Lorelle on WordPress <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [wp-docs] eCommerce
>To: WordPress Documentation <wp-docs at lists.automattic.com>
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>Good to know. Interesting that more aren't protected. That says a LOT for
>our team's ability (especially you, Michael) to stay on top of spam and
>yuk. Excellent.
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>Thanks,
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>Lorelle
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>On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Michael Hancock <justmichaelh at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Done.****
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>> Just to reiterate, there are just five ?regular? articles in Codex that
>> are protected?those are:****
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>> Main Page****
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>> Permalink Structure****
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>> Upgrading****
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>> Update Services****
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>> WordPress in Your Language****
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>> Michael****
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>> *From:* wp-docs-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:
>> wp-docs-bounces at lists.automattic.com] *On Behalf Of *Lorelle on WordPress
>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 05, 2012 1:46 PM
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>> *To:* WordPress Documentation
>> *Subject:* Re: [wp-docs] eCommerce****
>>
>> ** **
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>> Let's get them out of there. You have permissions to edit those pages,
>> right? Can't remember how locked down they are from spammers.
>>
>> Lorelle
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>> ****
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>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Michael Hancock <justmichaelh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:****
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>> There should be a redirect in place.  I didn?t remove the links from the
>> Advanced Topics or WordPress Lessons articles.****
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>>  ****
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>> MichaelH****
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>> *From:* wp-docs-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:
>> wp-docs-bounces at lists.automattic.com] *On Behalf Of *Lorelle on WordPress
>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:41 PM****
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>> *To:* WordPress Documentation
>> *Subject:* Re: [wp-docs] eCommerce****
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>>  ****
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>> Excellent. Did you check any links to it? I know you did, but thought I'd
>> use that as a lesson. :D
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>> Lorelle****
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>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Michael Hancock <justmichaelh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:****
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>> I?ve moved this to the original author?s namespace for further ?flesh out?.
>> ****
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>>  ****
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>> See
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:DanMilward/Business_Blogging_and_Shopping*
>> ***
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>> MichaelH****
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>> *From:* wp-docs-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:
>> wp-docs-bounces at lists.automattic.com] *On Behalf Of *Lorelle on WordPress
>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 05, 2012 3:36 AM
>> *To:* WordPress Documentation
>> *Subject:* Re: [wp-docs] eCommerce****
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>>  ****
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>> This was a user article that was supposed to be placed on the username
>> space for development and they dumped it right in and never finished it.
>> The idea of the article was to flesh out possibilities with ecommerce
>> features and had grandiose ideas about featuring conditional tags to
>> showcase items by category, etc., which is still a great idea of examples
>> but it was never finished. If the use of queries, conditionals, custom Page
>> Types, etc., could be shown how to be used as the default functionality and
>> not necessarily a Plugin, that would be cool.
>>
>> Please note that the Codex team decided that when the WordPress Plugin
>> Directory became stable to remove all WordPress Plugin "brag" pages and
>> listings. As a rule, we do not support nor encourage any WordPress Theme or
>> Plugin except those that "come in the box." We'll reference some as
>> optional but not as the sole purpose of the article.
>>
>> Good catch. Thanks!
>>
>> Lorelle****
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Jane Wells <jane at automattic.com> wrote:***
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>> Agreed, highly inappropriate, is basically an ad for wpecommerce. Delete
>> at will.
>> j****
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>> On 4/4/12 6:10 PM, John Blackbourn wrote: ****
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>> I don't personally think that is an appropriate page to have on the Codex.
>>
>> On Wednesday, 4 April 2012, Siobhan McKeown wrote:****
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>> This page is about WordPress & eCommerce but focuses only on the WP
>> eCommerce plugin and how to set it up ****
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>>  ****
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>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Business_Blogging_and_Shopping ****
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>>  ****
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>> Should this incorporate other free eCommerce plugins like Jigoshop? Or
>> should it just be made into a totally generic eCommerce page with just a
>> list of eCommerce plugins?****
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>>  ****
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>> Also, as a more general question: is this sort of page which focuses on
>> one plugin appropriate in the Codex?****
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