Improve support for site health issues in WordPress

[evapparao]

after we upgraded to wordpress 5.4, we are getting these performance issues. this is what was mentioned in the site health report. can you pl tell us how to fix them?

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[audrasjb]

Hi there, Welcome to WordPress Trac and thank you for opening this ticket,

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Thanks!

[johnbillion]

While the individual issues are indeed up to @evapparao to address, I think the Site Health screen could do a better job of providing information about how to address issues that it reports.

Currently several reported issues are a dead end, while some have links to support articles.

I think we should aim to have a corresponding support article for every site health issue.

Thoughts?

[audrasjb]

Good point @johnbillion. I think this could be a dedicated page on HelpHub.
I'll point out this concern during today’s Docs team meeting.

[audrasjb]

To elaborate my thoughts: I think a "Site health issues" HelpHub page would be easier to link on site health screen and easier to maintain. If each site health issue is documented in a single page, we just need to maintain this specific page when something is modified on site health feature :)

[johnbillion]

Replying to audrasjb:

To elaborate my thoughts: I think a "Site health issues" HelpHub page would be easier to link on site health screen and easier to maintain.

There are actually only two site health checks that link to a support article currently (I thought there were more).

• get_test_https_status() links to ​https://wordpress.org/support/article/why-should-i-use-https/
• get_test_is_in_debug_mode() links to ​https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/

I can see the value in having a central support page for all site health issues.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to johnbillion:

I think we should aim to have a corresponding support article for every site health issue.

Previously: [45170] / #46734.

[audrasjb]

@johnbillion FYI, I raised this to the Docs team during today’s meeting, and there is an agreement concerning using a single Site health HelpHub page. I think we can probably use site-health-issues as a slug for this page.

For reference: ​https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2020/06/15/summary-for-docs-team-meeting-15-june-2020/