Murry

Hmm – Im using POLURNET as a host – they have been very helpful with my many newby questions as I took over the whole job of running my sites. Cheep with seveal hosting plans.
Their support is online chat as well.

Skippy (hehe – shades of home – Aussie here – even if Im in France).
Im happy to “try” to help when time permits.
However my familiarity with WP is still on a vertical curve.
You are correct tho that while its an immense job – kudos to all – a logical cross referencing is needed – (dunno how).
Like, there is a brilliant page that details WP features that Lorelle gave a link to and the only way I can find it is refind her post – mostly cos Im a twit.
having written a number of Docs & Procedure manuals for labs I know that Doc organisation is a nightmare. I will add my 2bobs worth if I can.
My impression is the codex does a fair job of a giant task.
But for newbies – my thoughts are that most are boggled by the bookmarks to cryptic tags when they realy dont know what they are looking for anyway – esp when you search.
But I will rty to add thoughts 🙂
Cheers

Cool, Basically I agree with your thoughts:)
Yup the search seems sticky atm. Also my obtuse brain poses questions differently. What I do see is many seem to ask customising or tweeking questions of themes thatare probably not he right ones for that user 🙂
There are also many on the quirks of different systems and so installs – that are always a pain and there are so many system types. Then the sheer dynamic nature of WP mans so many “non-core WP” questions arise.
It would be helpful to have a REALY well doc’d core -(I think its OK tho).
Even if Kub is a bit of a twister to non-hackers to tweek.
Some questions may be also better asked in a different forum category – like the developer guys may be better off in a real tech area so the install q’s are REALY obvious and a good FAQ is developed from that forum.
But thats a hassle tho cos then people dont learn or see what can be done — ah well, so many beers, so little time 🙂
One day I hope to be more useful to the forum.
Cheers

Hi Curly,
Im not the right person to respond here and Im a newbie as well – I also dont want to P*** people off at my thoughts so I dont get my questions answered here 🙂
BUT – I am Very new to WP – But Ive been building sites for a bit and know my HTML (sorta) but and very grey on PHP – like most “users” really – I manage simple stuff. We are not all “developer/designers”
We are mostly looking for a plug and go system – the confusion comes with the themes. WP – is pretty plug and go – Ive built a complete and growing site in about 10days, very part time with VERY few hassles – shameless promotion to WP.
The CODEX is also a HUGE help to me. But you correctly used the term “DIG” .
What I find is that the information is often somewhere between the Postings in this forum and the CODEX but sometimes the cross referencing of info – or the way a post is “taged” is not the way I would pose the question.
Hence – to find what you want is sometimes not easy.
What Im saying is – theres a huge knowledge base – but sometimes not arranged the way I would seek within. Sorry its just not intuitive (for me)
I also think that folks (me included) look for a quick fire answer .
Forinstance, I once spent 2 and a half days trolling the codex and posting here to find out a painfully obvious bit of info about forms in WP that was totally unnecessary – – when someone finally pointed out the solution — that wasted time sent me into a blue fit – truely 🙂

Sorry – I also waffle a lot 🙂
In summary –
-yes there are a lot of repeat questions that are asked that shouldnt be.
-Some of those questions can probaly be accessed easier by a REAALY good install and working model FAQ
– many problems come from poorly explained or misunderstood Themes
-I should help WP by assisting in the forum & CODEX (as should others)
– the expandable nature of WP in itself creates many questions
-WP is a great system with lots of possibilities.
– this list is endless 🙂

My tarnished and devaluing 2 cents worth.
Keep well.

Also look at this in CODEX
http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar