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

[Edward Caissie]

My bad for not "noticing" it before now ... but that does not change the
point that it should not be in the guidelines; or the point that there are
most likely quite a few themes that should not be in the repository based
solely on that guideline as well.

The point of something being static requires it to be fixed to a certain
place or time thus having a timestamp is more likely to indicate the page
to be static than to not have a timestamp. Having a guideline that dictates
no fixed location, as in time, seems more counter-intuitive than useful.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> (this is becoming a bad habit!) My bad -- that wasn't the original
> version, just the oldest revision on the first page of history (D'OH!)
> but my point is that the no timestamps guideline has been around for
> several years now.
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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