[FM Discuss] Wordpress manual update

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 20:21, mick fuzz <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Martin Kean <Martin.Kean at op.ac.nz> wrote:
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>> 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
>

I've been meaning to update/expand/finish the database manual as well,
but I've just not ha enough time for FM lately :( soon, soon!

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 * Installing on a Server - as this seems out of date with version number etc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