[FM Discuss] From Marc on WordPress docs

[Marc Beneteau]

Mick and all -- 
 
Ok looks like we are on the same page here (others feel free to chime-in),
initial handshake succeeded.  No one has responded to the question of where
to send the affiliate links, so I guess we'll just send them to Mick for
co-ordinating all of this ;)
 
I didn't realize the current book was as advanced as it is, so let me
clarify my intention, I want to create a "WordPress Quick Start Guide" that
lives up to the promise of "your first site in 3 hours" ie it needs to be
super-compact but also fairly comprehensive.  This could perhaps be a single
chapter in Mick's latest "Version 2" below, so would require some massaging
of the table of contents, but I think we can make it work.  The total
project is more ambitious which is a practical wordpress reference /
userguide and I am in favor of that too.  
 
I won't be able to seriously focus on this for another 3-4 weeks, but let me
make my table-of-contents proposal in next 2 weeks.  
 
thanks
 
Marc 

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ok policy neurosis aside, you seem very sensitive to the community and
shared culture mark and i think that matters more than anything. personally
it think each manual should work out its own road through this issue. you
and mick have a good conversation going and i am sure anything you do in
this vein will be in harmony with a general fm flow...unless anyone else
wants to put in some thoughts i think you guys should just work it out
between you and do what you think is right



Hi Marc, 
I suppose I just us to have an understanding of what you want to get out of
it to make sure that you don't invest time and feel you aren't getting what
you wanted out of it. 

Booki is great software for this and the FM community is great too. 
If you ever wanted to do the Marc B only version of the book, for
publication or to use the html / epub export.  then you could always use
clone the FM version into booki.cc to use the material that you want and to
take out what you don't.

I am a bit nervous that we already both have a lot of material that is
overlapping and I'm wondering how that will merge. How do you see this
working?

Maybe a good starting point is for us all to have a look at what we have
come up with so far, and see what we  think. 

For our stuff.  I think there is a similar aim of being pitched at beginner
to intermediate users. Although this manual details both wordpress.org and
wordpress.com stuff.
 
Version 1 - ( which is pretty out of date ) -
http://en.flossmanuals.net/_booki/wordpress/wordpress.pdf

Version 2 work in progress - about 60/70 pages so far in draft format (needs
checking and revision)
http://objavi.booki.cc/books/wordpress-en-2011.08.17-09.10.01.pdf 


nice one
Mick


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