Forums: Change "Forums" link in the header to something more useful

[SergeyBiryukov]

Currently, the Forums link in the header seems useless, as it just duplicates the Support heading link.

Would it make sense to change it to Forum Welcome, like we did for the home page in #2428?

cc @Ipstenu, @macmanx, @Clorith

[samuelsidler]

I'd prefer we leave it how it is, for future-proofing. After helphub integrates with the forums, both will be on the /support/ landing pages so this will be a way to get directly to the support forums from any page on the site.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to samuelsidler:

After helphub integrates with the forums, both will be on the /support/ landing pages so this will be a way to get directly to the support forums from any page on the site.

Does it mean the Support and Forums links will be differentiated when that happens?

Currently, I think it should at least scroll to the list of forums: ​https://wordpress.org/support/#bbpress-forums, instead of duplicating the preceding Support link.

On Russian forums specifically, we'd like to have a link to the forum rules there. I could just edit the translation, but I thought other forums might benefit from a similar change as well, hence the suggestion to change it for all forums :)

[samuelsidler]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

Does it mean the Support and Forums links will be differentiated when that happens?

That's correct. The landing page for Support will include the knowledge base (helphub) and the forums, to a lesser degree. Then, a landing page will be created just for the knowledge base and a separate one just for the forums.

Currently, I think it should at least scroll to the list of forums: ​https://wordpress.org/support/#bbpress-forums, instead of duplicating the preceding Support link.

Sure, that makes sense.

On Russian forums specifically, we'd like to have a link to the forum rules there. I could just edit the translation, but I thought other forums might benefit from a similar change as well, hence the suggestion to change it for all forums :)

Short/medium term, that's fine, but in the long term (when we have translatable docs), it should mirror the main support forums.

[coffee2code]

In 4846:

Support Theme: Link "Forums" in menu to "/#bbpress-forums".

It now more aptly leads to actual forums listing and no longer duplicates the link target of the preceding "Support" link.

Fixes #2455.

[coffee2code]

Feel free to reopen if there is an outstanding request I overlooked.

[SergeyBiryukov]

@coffee2code: Looks like there's a more compact and convenient list of forums with a sidebar: ​https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

Could we change the #bbpress-forums link URL to that one, or is it not supposed to exist? :)

[SergeyBiryukov]

Reopening to address comment:6.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5122:

Support Theme: Link "Forums" in menu to the actual list of forums instead of the landing page.

The list view is much easier to parse than column view, and it gives a better idea how busy a particular forum is.

Fixes #2455.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 5126:

Support Theme: After [5122], use correct relative link to the forums list.

See #2455.