[theme-reviewers] Pages: date/time stamp should not be displayed?!

Emil Uzelac emil at uzelac.me
Thu May 16 16:21:58 UTC 2013


I did not have time to check latest version yet, however I do agree
that timestamp should be displayed and not dictated if that is the case.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Edward Caissie
<edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was just reviewing the latest Theme Unit Test data (mostly because I
> cannot seem to get the entire data set to import into my local test
> environment) and noticed "date/time stamp should not be displayed" ...
> perhaps I missed some extensive discussion but where did this guideline
> come from?
>
> This is the single most common complaint about information found on
> WordPress installations that I hear, the reader generally has no idea if
> the information is current or stale ... and more often than not those
> search results that appear to rank highest tend also to be the ones that
> are outdated.
>
> I can see the category/tag meta data not being displayed (mostly due to it
> not being available in a default installation) but to not show the
> timestamp by reason of it being a guideline, that simply does not make
> sense.
>
> By design? Yes. By theme author prerogative? Yes. Dictated by the WPTRT?
> NO.
>
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
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