I'm trying to figure out if I want the Table of Contents or the Tabular Quick Links. Hide the TOC to see what it looks like without one (I can take it out later with the __NOTOC__ tag). To see it with out the tabular links, close your eyes and use your imagination. :)

The advantage of the Tabular Quick Tags is that the links are organized more like you would see them in the WordPress Admin Panel. The Advantage of the TOC is that it doesn't take up as much space.

Also, any comments on whether the Quick Tags (if you prefer those) link to the SubPanel wiki pages (as they do now) or instead reference the appropriate # anchor on this page?
--MDAWaffe 01:41, 11 Jan 2005 (GMT) Edited for Clarity

OK - got rid of the TOC and made the Quick Tags point to #anchors --MDAWaffe

This looks fantastic! I don't mind the tabular quick tags at all.

NuclearMoose 05:09, 11 Jan 2005 (GMT)

Thanks :) I'll go with this format and try to finish up the rest of the content. It'll take a while though
--MDAWaffe 06:02, 11 Jan 2005 (GMT)

Suggestion: "SubPanel Pages" instead of "SubPanel Wikis" as some folks visiting Codex won't really understand the wiki concept.

NuclearMoose 09:05, 11 Jan 2005 (GMT)

I've been doing my best, actually, to avoid the use of the word "page" in the wiki pages about the administration panels. I thought people might get confused since, by necessity, I frequently mention "pages" in the "pages as in funny posts" sense. But, I agree, "SubPanel Wikis" is not satisfactory. I'll switch it now and perhaps someone will think of something clever. (Who let them call those funny posts "pages" anyway - terrible idea. "Spread" or "Leaf" or "Record" or "Folio" or anything but "Page" - is it too late to change?)
--MDAWaffe 09:27, 11 Jan 2005 (GMT)

Hmmm...what about just simply "SubPanels"? You are doing some awesome work, BTW!

NuclearMoose 16:59, 11 Jan 2005 (GMT)

Thanks. Nothing new today - just some tweaks. I didn't have it in me to start in on Options :). --MDAWaffe 09:01, 13 Jan 2005 (GMT)

Naming Conventions

NOTES to the rest of the documentation effort: I don't know what the best name for any of these pages is. I have come to know them as "Administration Panels" and "SubPanels". I'm more than open to discussion/debate, however, and will happily accept whatever the rest of the docs community decides. Whatever the eventual naming convention is, I would imagine this page will be linked from "Blog Administration" --MDAWaffe

Should this page be brought into line with Matt's comments ? -- Boneill 12:09, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What it is and What it isn't

These pages are meant to document the user interface for the administration of WordPress 1.5 sites only. I have chosen to put all of the content addressing the Dashboard, Plugins, Presentation and Upload Panels here and to move the content addressing all other SubPanels to their own pages on codex. This was done since the user-interface content was minimal for the above pages, and because explanations of Plugins and Themes (and to some, small extent, Uploading Files) are available elsewhere. I felt the short discussion on this page was all that was needed to tell the user how to actually implement them.

The Options->Discussion SubPanel is already documented (and quite well) at Discussion Options. I am unsure what to do regarding this. Please see USER_talk:NuclearMoose#1.2 v. 1.5 Codex Protocol. --MDAWaffe 05:55, 27 Jan 2005 (GMT)

I see in the post Writing_Posts a mention that while that specific page is for 1.2, information has been merged (or updated) in another page for 1.5. Is this available for release yet? If so, I want to make sure there is a link to it from the Main page that I'm updating right now. Thanks. Lorelle 18:40, 1 Feb 2005 (GMT)

As far as I'm concerned, this page and all the pages it links to are ready to go live. They still need a bit of filling out in terms of content, but I have done with them what I can. I believe Carthik is working on moving them out of my user space and into the Codex proper, but you might check with him. Ah, and Writing Posts I've merged into USER:MDAWaffe/Write Post SubPanel Write Post SubPanel --MDAWaffe 01:23, 2 Feb 2005 (GMT)

Thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing these "out there". Excellent work!

Lorelle 16:19, 2 Feb 2005 (GMT)

Hi Michael, I do something similar called "visual docs" in the german documentation. Have a look: http://doku.wordpress.de/Visuelle_Doku It`s similar to the original backend navigation...
Olaf 11:16, 21 Feb 2005 (GMT)

Wow, Olaf, that's hot. These pages are not, perhaps, as "Task Based" as they should be. Instead they provide a more "functional description" of what various bits mean (to quote Carthik). I think people will find it useful (as apparently you think too :)), but I'm not quite sure where they'll best fit into Codex. They may need some tweaking before they "go live".

I think of it as a "two sides of the same coin" issue. These docs were meant as a guide to what WordPress does and where it does it, not as a How-To for specific WordPress features. They answer more general things like "How and Where do I modify my site's Options, and what options do I have?" instead of very specific questions like "How do I show excerpts in my syndication feed". They certainly answers that question, but you sort of need to know where to look. Perhaps with a little tweaking, these pages could be made to easily answer both kinds of questions.

Thanks for the link! --MDAWaffe 11:45, 21 Feb 2005 (GMT)

MDA, I changed the links in the article to something more "digestable" because they were changing the colon, exclamation, and question mark into letter number combinations that make the links not very easy to use in the future. Something like: #Dashboardb16what3bis_going_on3f. Not fun. So I changed it to #The_Dashboard and changed the other ones to use hypens and get rid of the exclamations and question marks. Thinking ahead.

I also made a ton of links from my article on First Steps with WordPress to these to help users get a handle on each point. This is amazingly useful information that I wish I'd had when I was started. Some of us just need hand holding. It's wonderful material and I'll be linking to it heavily from the new Lessons section. Thanks4bf hee hee Lorelle 22:09, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks --MDAWaffe - Talk 22:43, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Some Historical discussion

User:MDAWaffe/Write Administration Panel TALK --MDAWaffe - Talk 23:14, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

problem with events calendar plug-in

i'm using events calendar pro and my events are no longer showing up! as you can see here: http://www.phillyfreeschool.org/events

using version 3.11.2 of pro and 3.11.1 of the basic calendar but can't see a way to roll back (if this is even the problem).

school starts soon. help!