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

[Chip Bennett]

Let's look at this another way: what would be the point/benefit of
displaying the *publish* date/time on a Static Page?


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Edward Caissie
<edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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