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Talk:UNIX Shell Skills

This is a great start. We do have some ground rules though, if you read through the guidelines and styles noted on your User Talk page. If you could edit the article accordingly, it would help, or our editors will.

We do not write in the first person. Articles on the Codex are fact filled and specific, not stories about what you did, how someone helped, or even who helped who. It is about how to. We involve the user by saying "Open your file" or "In your WordPress Theme folder". This is an online manual so the style is very instructional.

If you go through the articles on our site, you will see that the paragraphs tend to be short, with bullet points to take someone through the steps. People want the information NOW so we work hard to get it to them.

Thanks again for your contribution and I hope this information helps. Lorelle 18:32, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)

As you can see, the article has been edited to match the overall look and presentation style of the WordPress Codex. I've had a few people look at this and review it and they have all asked the same question. "What does this have to do with WordPress?".
I am not an expert on this subject at all, so I can't answer them, but it does bring up a good point. Introductions on how to use SSH are found elsewhere on the Internet and our focus here is on WordPress. Can we start off early on explaining why this information is of benefit to WordPress users and why they should know about it? It's mentioned at the bottom, but we need to clarify this from point one. Any help in this would really make the article have the appeal it needs for WordPress users.
Thanks again. Lorelle 20:52, 3 Jul 2005 (UTC)

I think this is great, though I think it will be important, and Lorelle says, to justify why it should be here. I would suggest you add something about chown and chmod, as permissions are fairly important for making WordPress work correctly, even install correctly. I could then link some of my security material to this article to provide background, which would be great. --Eads 16:48, 4 Jul 2005 (UTC)