Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Is This a "Do My Work For Me" question?
See here:
Custom page template to display all image attachments
Is this question becoming a "do my work for me" type question? I'm going to go ahead and try to answer it fully, but for future ...
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Should we always default to related Meta.SO answers to our own Meta questions?
Often, a question is asked here in Meta, and the initial answer begins with, "this question was asked on Meta.SO, and the accepted answer was..." (with a link to the referenced question.
I question ...
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Retagging Questions Based on Answers
I can see many instances where this is the case, but here's the most common scenario I encounter:
A user asks a question about query_posts() or get_posts() but the correct answer should use WP_Query ...
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Which to Accept? Multiple Accurate Different/Incomplete Answers
Maybe I'm just not smart enough to judge the answers to the most recent question I asked, but it seems to me that both answers are correct, unique, and not mutually exclusive.
I don't want to be one ...
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Should known bugs be explicitly listed as "off-topic" in the FAQ scope?
See here, for example:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/51596/wordpress-does-not-return-404-when-the-url-is-changed
The OP knows that the behavior is a bug, and even links to the Trac ...
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Encouraging Users to Improve Accept Rate
Recently, @Toscho gave me a gentle nudge to this SO.meta discussion regarding commenting on OP's accept rates. While the accepted answer to that question was "no", the competing answer of "yes" was ...
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Should we close outdated, abandoned questions?
Every now and then, someone asks a question specific to a particular version of WordPress. Many times, these questions are asked on Stack Overflow and migrated here ... the OP doesn't follow the ...
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When and how should I edit questions and answers?
From the first day on I can edit other peoples questions and answers.
What is a good edit? Why and when should I do it?
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QueryPosts.com lives [closed]
Long long time ago, on a meta right here - there were ideas about custom domain for the WPSE. Then the whole custom domain thing was scrapped and for that long time leading domain choice of queryposts....
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A more specific welcome message?
The welcome message in the sidebar says currently:
This is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for WordPress developers and administrators. It's 100% free, no registration required.
Got ...
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Off Topic Questions/Non-Wordpress Specific Questions
Why not suggest a different SE site for the question or migrating the question, rather than simply closing it as off topic?
WordPress is so widely used and people more novice than myself may not see/...
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Outline for required reputation for capabilities
When a user receives a new capability, a little banner appears at the top with a "More Info" link. On that page, there is a breakdown of reputation required for certain capabilities.
How can I ...
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Intentional Errors in Code?
I am still pretty new to SE, but across the SE websites, it seems a lot of people with very high reputation and moderator capabilities enter a lot of faulty code... but the code is only faulty by a ...
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Extend FAQ to deny support for stolen/not-paid commercial plugins & themes
Note: I'm using the term »Software« for plugins & themes.
Sadly we've lots of Qs like this one which ask for support for commercial »Software«. Most paid »Software« has support included or at a ...
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Why does stackoverflow have such an active WordPress tag?
The WordPress tag on stack is pretty active, and it also has some interesting questions that are sometimes technical.
March 2012 Stat Compare (data.stackexchange.com)
461 Post where tagged WordPress ...
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Threaded Comments
I've been turning it over in my head a bit recently, and I cannot come up with a good reason why there should not be threaded comments on questions. I do not think threaded comments would be ...
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Multi-part Questions with Bounties
I am still new to StackExchange, but have found myself addicted. I am not sure why, but the reputation points and bounties really do help in getting a question answered... I LOVE it!
I have a multi-...
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Visual indicator for "moved", "closed" and "migrated" Qs
Could we please have some sort of colored background for the Q-states I mentioned in the title?
Maybe…
orange for "moved"
red for "closed"
and blue for "migrated"
Currently they look like if ...
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Most Useful Answers: List Plugins, or Describe Methods?
I have seen several questions on WPSE that, in essence, solicit answers as follows:
Use X Plugin
Use Y Plugin
Use Z Plugin
(Reference this meta question for a discussion of just one of such ...
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Moderated answer and the FAQ
Okay, so I had an answer on this question here. In that answer I referenced Chip's answer. The reason I mentioned his answer is because one of those plugins (Role Scoper) is a fine alternative if ...
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A guide to moderating wordpress.stackexchange yourself - close voting
Ninefingers posted this incredible useful text over at meta.crypto.stackexchange.com. I’ll just copy it.
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Tag for off-topic subject: wordpress.com
So, we've stated explicitly that wordpress.com (use, setup, features, account, support) is off topic. Yet, we have almost 200 questions tagged <wordpress.com>.
Should these posts be auto-...
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Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups 2012: You're invited! [closed]
We're having a Stack Overflow meetup to get together with fellow programming, web, and other technology enthusiasts. But not all of our programmers and technology enthusiasts live on Stack Overflow, ...
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Why Do Open Bounties Prevent Close Votes?
See this question:
Recommend an open source, template driven website builder UI that produces a working WordPress site
I attempted to close-vote this question as too localized, based on the OP's ...
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What's up with voluntarily removed questions?
So I just spend 5 minutes answering a question, and the user promptly removed it.
( How to implement jquery-ui autocomplete into custom fields? )
I feel like my answer was a waste of time. What's is ...
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New reputation factor: No questions penalty [closed]
Our site suffers from too many bad questions. We are the second worst site in the entire network regarding answer rate. Bad questions do not get answers and they drive away the most important ...
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Could we get question block considered to be enabled for our stack?
We get a number of quite hardcore "help vampires" here, and I feel these users really get on peoples' nerves.
Given that suspension is quite an extreme measure, we mods are hesitant to use this ...
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How to handle answers to off-topic questions?
See here, for example:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/47147/how-to-select-only-last-six-row-values-from-mysql-database
The question is obviously off-topic, as it is purely a SQL ...
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Why are so many license questions answered incorrectly here?
If you take a look at the licensing tag you'll see many (22) questions about the GPL and WordPress. Way to many of them have accepted answers which are incorrect.
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When is moderator attention necessary?
I recently flagged this answer for being low quality (on the original revision of it, my flag fell at 1:32pm on March 18th) and my flag was declined with the following comment:
flags should only be ...
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Closing topics from new people
I was going through WPSE this morning doing my best to answer what I can and I came accross a few closed questions, mostly for off topic.
Let me get this out of the way, I do agree with the scope as ...
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What to do with wrong answers marked as solution?
I more and more often get some answers marked as solution that maybe (or surely) not the solution for the problem. This happens to appear mostly on older answers.
My current guess: It's users ...
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What the bollocks does this mean?
I got a big red banner at the top of WPSE saying this:
WordPress requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load.
What is it implying?
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front-end and frontend, tags that could be merged?
When creating my latest question, I found that there were two tags that look to mean the same thing. Any way a synonym could be created?
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Tag soup clean up
The following list contains tags for which I cannot see any practical use. They are way too vague, probably just meta tags.
What should we do with those tags?
body
bulk-import – we have also bulk and ...
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Merge the tags form and forms
See forms (93 questions) and form (111 questions). One has to die! :)
Which one should be canonical?
Update
Merged to forms.
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Merge the tags menus and custom-menus
While custom-menus should be reserved for nav-menu questions most users just don’t get it: They use (and search probably in) just menus. Retagging those questions has become an useless exercise, so I ...
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How long to allow for a user to make question better?
Lets take this question for example: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43969/i-have-created-a-wp-plugin-for-my-local-server-and-downloaded-it-as-a-zip-file-t
There are many more like this ...
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Are theme and plugin recommendation guessing games?
Network blog just had a post about "guessing game" type questions and issues with them.
Should we take this as a hint and consider getting rid of theme and plugin recommendation questions?
This came ...
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WordCamp Phoenix Follow-up
Yes, I'm breaking all the rules by posting a non-question. Since we don't yet have a separate WPSE blog, this seemed the most appropriate venue for a post-WordCamp discussion.
This past weekend, I ...
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Define WPSE Coding Standard for Editing/Refactoring Code?
Related to this comment:
https://wordpress.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/944/nr-of-edits-make-community-wiki-why-not-nr-of-users#comment1900_945
Would it be useful/beneficial to establish a site ...
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Delete bad practice Questions?
I found this Question asking »How to change the wp-admin folder name« and had a long time in the comments. The outcoming was, as Dion Hulse stated on wp-hackers, that it's simply not supported, has a ...
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Should questions have WordPress in the question title?
I have found that I'm editing a lot of questions recently and when doing so if I find the word WordPress in the question title I more times than not remove it. At the same time I reword the title to ...
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WordCamp Phoenix [closed]
Today, all day, I'll be at WordCamp Phoenix in Arizona. If there's anything you'd like me to ask speakers directly, or anything you'd like me to look in to while I'm here, please leave an answer ...
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest
The following is a "digest" version of the 2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town ...
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Can we use a tag to identify 'core hacks'?
Stemming from this discussion, would it be good for us to tag questions that involve core hacks? I am thinking something that is non-offensive involving the word 'trac', since trac is the proper place ...
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Where do you draw the line for 'unlikely to be salvageable through editing'?
When flagging a question, the description for 'very low quality' is as follows:
This question has severe formatting or content problems. This question is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, ...
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What do we do with "hack core" answers?
Had an answer flagged today because it recommended hacking core.
I will never recommend anyone hack core, and many members of the community have joined me in reiterating the reasons why it's a bad ...
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2012 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat - Thursday the 23rd at 19:00 UTC / 2pm EST
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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What to do with incomprehensible questions?
Many question on WPSE are incomprehensible as poor translation to English has happened. Sometimes you can get the gist of the question but other times the question is so poorly written that no sense ...