[FM Discuss] Wordpress manual update

[Martin Kean]

Hi,

I have added a few notes to the http://flossmanuals.net/wordpress/edit/ page, but to be honest I really need to take a good read of the current manual - this weekend!

Martin
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Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Wordpress manual update

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Martin Kean <Martin.Kean at op.ac.nz<mailto:Martin.Kean at op.ac.nz>> wrote:
I'd like to work on the Wordpress update with you Mick!
Martin
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That would be great Martin!

I've had a look at the manual as is now, and added some notes to the Notes section.

Maybe you could do the same to give us a bit of an outline of what could be changed. Here's what I've come up with so far.

http://flossmanuals.net/wordpress/edit/   - notes tab

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Notes for new version

General Questions.

Wordpress is pretty well documented generally - why create a Manual? Who is the audience?

* hand outs for teaching
* full printed guide for reference
* one stop shop for help for online communities which can be tailored to their specific needs if necessary


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> Installation

It might be good to add in somewhere how to set up a Wordpress 'network' and what that would involve.

* Installing on a Server - as this seems out of date with version number etc

*  Sign up at Wordpress.com - update with new screenshots. Maybe take out the description of the Dashboard into a 'getting started' section.

> Basic Use Section

perhaps it would be good to add an 'overview chapter' to explain the dashboard and some basic things.

* Add a Post - currently this is aimed at wordpress.com<http://wordpress.com> - but it would be good to make it applicable for hosted sites too.

* Adding Images - this seems ok, could do with checking and an edit maybe

* Adding Links - This seems ok too - could do with checking and an edit - maybe new screen shots?

* Creating an Image Gallery - Is this still relevant? is there are better plug in for this?

> Design

maybe it would be good to move this section up a bit in the menu order and add a new section about Custom Menus

* Themes - it would be good to have notes for how to install new themes on hosted Wordpress blogs and how to check they are well maintained

* Widgets -

> Useful Plugins

it seems like we could put a lot of the audio and video content that is there currently and put it in this section, as there are many more relevant plug ins now. It would be useful to tell people how to install plugins on hosted blogs - there is a lot of cross over with how to do this with themes too.

* Status.net - this is relatively recent but could do with checking and editing

* Podcast Plugin - this is relatively recent but could do with checking and editing


> Video

This whole section is probably quite out of date and could do with being totally re-writen. The sections on embedding could maybe be one chapter called dealing with embed codes. This could explain about HTML views and limitations to embedding.

> Audio Podcasting

Again this section needs looking at to see if any of it should be kept or moved about.


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