Meetup – Summit Weekend
Thanks to your hard work, the Guide is good enough for version one! Every page has something. We know we need to fix images, and some sections need expansion. We’ll live.
Since this weekend is the community summit, and I am your rep (how did that happen?), is there anything, no matter how trivial, you think we should address?
I have the following:
- Make it harder to break home/site URLs
- Get rid of blogs.dir in Multisite, it makes us cry when we have to explain about /files/
- More representation/help for Meetups! An official meetup.wordpress.org site? to compete with meetup.com
And that’s it. So what’s really annoying you about WP, be it the forums (and thank you, @otto42 for the (Bozo) tags!) or IRC or anything in the support world you think is wrong/could be better/is perfect. Hey, may as well think about what’s great too!
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 10:13 pm on October 25, 2012 Permalink |
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JerrySarcastic 10:17 pm on October 25, 2012 Permalink |
As WP gets used so heavily as a CMS, it would be nice to have a setting that globally “turns off” discussions on Pages. Lot’s of plugins and themes that offer this, but it would be nice to have in core.
Jason 12:48 pm on October 26, 2012 Permalink |
Following on your idea Jerry, I’d actually argue that Pages shouldn’t have discussion features enabled at all within core. Of course an individual theme could re-enable them within the context of that theme, but if they’re going to be off in > 80% of cases it seems like they should be set to off altogether.
esmi 1:07 pm on October 26, 2012 Permalink |
@Jason: That would mean a complete reversal of current WPORG theme policy which states that themes must have comments enabled in Pages by default.
JerrySarcastic 8:57 pm on October 29, 2012 Permalink |
Not necessarily: “on by default” page commenting can be an ongoing requirement for theme devs, and still be overwritten in core by selecting a “turn comments off on pages” setting of some kind.
If it’s worked into core carefully, it would not *break* the theme submission guidelines, IMHO.
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 12:32 am on October 30, 2012 Permalink |
I would take that up with make/themes directly, as I’m not qualified to speak for that.
esmi 1:09 pm on October 26, 2012 Permalink |
Nothing else springs to mind – although if the 3.5 static front page config stays roughly “as is”, I can see that causing problems
Becky 3:15 pm on October 26, 2012 Permalink |
I would love to see more help/representation from “official” WP people at my meetups.
However, Meetup.com actually does a great job of promoting my meetup and cross-referencing it with other web related things. If WP sets up its own system, I feel like a lot of this “juice” will be lost and that newbies will never find us at all.
esmi 6:47 pm on October 26, 2012 Permalink |
Thought of something!
Can we ask the core devs (or whoever) to please think very carefully about releasing the next default theme before the next WP update? I’m getting a little tired or warning people not to edit Twenty Twelve because I’ve no desire to face the outraged hordes that might congregate after the 3.5 update.