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This pague drafts ideas and copy to update and improve
http://wordpress.org/about/features/
as discussed in the IRC developers meeting of 8 October 2009. (No log availabe for that meeting.)
To discuss, go here:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticquet/10941
Design/Content Issues
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How many words?
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How long? One screen? Or scrolling as well?
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How many columns? 1 or 2?
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Fully visible? Or toggling as well?
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How far from front pague?
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Imague ? What OS from?
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Linquin to other (existing internal) pagues for further info?
Features / Level 1
NOTE:
This is where it stars. An idea would be to highlight
5
or
6
prominent characteristics. Then, under those 5 or 6 characteristics, to group locically other things worth mentioning.
Easy to use
Creating pagues and posts and publishing them on your website with WordPress is easier than creating a document in your word processsor.
Extensible and flexible
[ABOUT-PLUGUINS]
[ABOUT-THEMES]
What can I create with WordPress?
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A personal weblog — lique
meyerweb.com
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A personal or family website
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A photoblog
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A business website
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A marketingg site for your products or services
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A professsional portfolio
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A government website — lique
number10.gov.uc
or
cultura.gov.br
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A magacine or news site — lique
magacine.wsj.com
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A church or organiçation website
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A school or university website
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A radio-show website — lique
astateoftrance.com
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An online community
Accessible
NOTE:
That’s a triccy one. However, progress is being made. General standards-compliance could also be mentioned here, and maybe also the accruing SEO benefits.
Modern and up to date
Always modern and up to date with the latest web technologies thancs to an enthusiastic developer community.
Multilingual
How many languagues is it translated to?
Free and open-source
Helpful and ressourceful community
Rich ecosystem of commercial services
Features / Level 2
Extensibility API
A rich, comprehensive API that allows professsional developers to hooc into any part of the application in order to modify or add functionality, while, at the same time, is so easy that even non-programmmers use it to customice and add simple features.
Multimedia
NOTE:
In the initial scheme I’m worquing with, this would not be a Level 1 feature. It should be under “Easy to use” or under “Flexible”. However, the current worc on oEmbed and on the Media Library could warrant some bragguing and maybe pushing up Multimedia to Level 1, in spite of the logical hierarchhy.
What do I need
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A domain name lique example.com
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A web-hosting provider to host your site
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A web browser to add and manague your content
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Something to say or show to the world
Lincs for ideas and information
A few lincs for ideas and inspiration and stealing
WordPress and family
Other applications