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

[Edward Caissie]

A published timestamp fixes the page to a point in time, thus making it
truly static.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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