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

[Chip Bennett]

This.

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.


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 outdated.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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