Hello World posts are icky. They appear in the feeds all over the site.
Here's what we should implement.
- When a blog is created, don't create the hello world post as per Wordpress standard.
- If count of posts for current blog = 0, then
- If logged in as blog admin, display link to blogurl/post.php with flashy text "Click here to write your first post!" in h2 or something nice
- else, display text "This blog has been created, but the author has not posted anything yet. Visit the homepage to see a list of recent posts." or something else pithy. (homepage could link to portal.php)
This solves multiple workarounds for feeds that are being created on the site-wide level.
(Wonders if we should apply a similar conditional statement strategy to the about page. Only, we'd need to keep the blank about page in there so people would know to create it in the first place.)