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

[Amy Hendrix]

Sorry to follow up to my own email, but the first version of the Unit
Test codex page at
http://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Theme_Unit_Test&oldid=91985
has "Make sure datestamps or timestamps are not visible." in 2010 --
as authored by Cais ;)

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> The guideline that Posts should display timestamps but Pages should
> not has been around for as long as I've been using the Theme Unit Test
> -- I completely agree that stale information on posts is always an
> issue, but IME the norm for just about all the users I deal with is
> that static pages should be seen as static, not time-dependent.
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>> 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 outdated.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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