[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #9371: Change excerpt info link to a Codex page for END users

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#9371: Change excerpt info link to a Codex page for END users
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 Reporter:  demetris        |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.8      
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  2.8      
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  has-patch
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Comment(by demetris):

 Thanks for reviewing this!

 The reason I made a new Codex page (and didn’t just add to the existing
 page) is that, I think, developer documentation and user documentation
 should be separate:

 People use WordPress to manage content, not to write PHP functions.  So,
 PHP code has no place in a page for *end users*.

 Then, having PHP code in a page for end users gives a wrong impression,
 because you don’t need any of that stuff to *use* WordPress or, even, in
 this particular case, to take full advantage of the possibilities of the
 excerpt.

 So, in my view, mixing dev docs with user docs is bad both for users (does
 not help them) and for WordPress (gives a wrong impression).

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