[wp-hackers] Developer portal

[Otto]

Tutorials. Nothing but tutorials on specific sections of WordPress and
the internal functionality.

If somebody searches for a function name, then they don’t need the
details about that function, or even minor little examples of using
it. What they need is an article that puts that function in context
with the rest of what they’re trying to do.

Give people that, encourage people to create those (and lets face it,
writing a tut is way simpler and more fun than writing documentation),
then you'll have something of value.

Also, lots of ppl already create these, they just put them on their
own blogs. Make a centralized site, let people contribute tuts to it
(even their pre-existing ones). People will do it. Mostly for the
fame, but that's as good a reason as any. :)

-Otto



On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> If there were to be a developer portal for WordPress, someplace where if
> you're first getting started with hacking on WP, building plugins, creating
> themes, you could go and it'd have all the best resources in one place, what
> resources do you think would be important to have there?
>
> What do you wish you had when you first started developing for WordPress?
>
> (Bonus points if it's something that already exists, just scattered around.
> :))