<div dir="ltr">This.<div><br></div><div style>Static pages are... static. They are not chronological. And as Amy points out: it's one of the oldest guidelines in the Theme Unit Test.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Amy Hendrix <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sabreuse@gmail.com" target="_blank">sabreuse@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The guideline that Posts should display timestamps but Pages should<br>
not has been around for as long as I've been using the Theme Unit Test<br>
-- I completely agree that stale information on posts is always an<br>
issue, but IME the norm for just about all the users I deal with is<br>
that static pages should be seen as static, not time-dependent.<br>
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me">emil@uzelac.me</a>> wrote:<br>
> I did not have time to check latest version yet, however I do agree<br>
> that timestamp should be displayed and not dictated if that is the case.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Edward Caissie <<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I was just reviewing the latest Theme Unit Test data (mostly because I<br>
>> cannot seem to get the entire data set to import into my local test<br>
>> environment) and noticed "date/time stamp should not be displayed" ...<br>
>> perhaps I missed some extensive discussion but where did this guideline come<br>
>> from?<br>
>><br>
>> This is the single most common complaint about information found on<br>
>> WordPress installations that I hear, the reader generally has no idea if the<br>
>> information is current or stale ... and more often than not those search<br>
>> results that appear to rank highest tend also to be the ones that are<br>
>> outdated.<br>
>><br>
>> I can see the category/tag meta data not being displayed (mostly due to it<br>
>> not being available in a default installation) but to not show the timestamp<br>
>> by reason of it being a guideline, that simply does not make sense.<br>
>><br>
>> By design? Yes. By theme author prerogative? Yes. Dictated by the WPTRT?<br>
>> NO.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Edward Caissie<br>
>> aka Cais.<br>
>><br>
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