[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1056: Plugin Directory Sidebar Links

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#1056: Plugin Directory Sidebar Links
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 Reporter:  ramiy             |       Owner:  coffee2code
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by coffee2code):

 After having gotten everything implemented (in my sandbox) as proposed in
 this ticket, I discovered an oversight in our planning.

 Bear in mind that now the "Developers" link in the toolbar/navbar (and the
 sidebar, when shown) which points to https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/
 would go directly to https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-
 org/.

 Also bear in mind that the left sidebar (which is only shown on single
 plugin pages) currently does not show any of the sub-sections under
 "Developers" (previously called "Developer Center" in the dated
 screenshots above) unless you're on one of the developer pages.

 Therefore, there is basically no links to the non-documentation developer
 resources (Add, Readme Standard, Readme Validator) from the Plugin
 Directory unless you're already on one of those 3 pages.

 And of those 3 resources, only the Add plugin page is linked to in the
 plugin handbook, via the main [https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins
 /wordpress-org/ WordPress.org plugin handbook page], though unintuitively
 and misleadingly labeled as "Sign up" within the text of the page.

 We need to beef up the plugin handbook page(s) and make links to the
 developer resources more prominent (or at least present).

 We should probably also consider creating a new developers landing page
 that can have some introductory text and then link out from there to the
 plugin developer handbook for the various bits of documentation and also
 internally link to tools available on WordPress.org. Kinda like what the
 [https://wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/ Theme Directory's Getting
 Started page] has, though there's room to improve the nomenclature and
 better mirror things between the two directories.

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