Suggested label change for "Stick this post to the front page"

[designsimply]

In the Publish meta box, it would be more clear to say "Stick this post to the top of the front page" compared to saying "Stick this post to the front page".

[ocean90]

I prefer the same label as we use in Quick Edit "Make this post sticky". Sticky posts aren't always on front page, even less on top.

[designsimply]

Thanks. Re-patched with 18400.1.diff.

[danielbachhuber]

Refresh patch against trunk

[nacin]

The problem with "Make this post sticky" is it doesn't describe what "sticky" means. I understand the brevity in Quick Edit, but it should probably be descriptive when editing a post. Otherwise it lacks any meaning for the user.

"Stick this post to the front page" seems OK to me as-is. It is a good balance of descriptiveness and clarity. "Stick this post to the top of the front page" feels less accurate as you can have multiple sticky posts (it also causes awkward text wrapping in English). Also, sticky posts *are* always on the front page, so that part isn't inaccurate either. Even if posts_per_page is 10, if you have 11 sticky posts, they'll all display.

[nacin]

designsimply, I'm guessing this came out of seeing some feedback from users, though it was pretty easy for ocean90 to pivot things to another string, so I'm not sure :-)

I wouldn't mind considering other variants; I'm just not sure anything so far proposed is any better. While some users might be less confused with "to the top", other users might be more confused.

[nacin]

Getting this out of 3.9; we can bring it back in if there is a consensus for changing it.

[celloexpressions]

Replying to nacin:

Also, sticky posts *are* always on the front page, so that part isn't inaccurate either. Even if posts_per_page is 10, if you have 11 sticky posts, they'll all display.

I think the issue here is that the user may have a static front page, in which case "Stick this post to the front page" is inaccurate. Themes also do special things with sticky posts sometimes (Twenty Fourteen, even), so we should keep it as generic as possible. I would call that an edge case, but the default theme does it out-of-the-box (where, incidentally, the "front page" statement is valid). In fact the best solution might be to lose some clarity and go with "Make this post sticky", since "sticky" can mean different things in different themes (although the general idea is almost always the same).

[designsimply]

designsimply, I'm guessing this came out of seeing some feedback from users

Correct.

I think the issue here is that the user may have a static front page, in which case "Stick this post to the front page" is inaccurate.

Correct again.

[helen]

#30248 was marked as a duplicate.

[philiparthurmoore]

In #30248 I've proposed to change "front" to "home", since front is incorrect. At a minimum I'd advocate for this change because it's in line with how themes treat the terms "home" and "front". As has been mentioned above, front as it's used now is incorrect when a static front page is used. Consistency here with the Customizer and other WordPress admin areas would be nice.

[kellenmace]

I'm proposing we change this wording on the single post edit screen from "Stick this post to the front page" to "Stick this post to the posts page".

Reasons why:

1. When users are using a static front page and a different page for their posts, the current "Stick this post to the front page" wording is inaccurate and misleading.
2. The "front" and "home" terms can be confusing to end users, as noted by others on this ticket. We can avoid that confusion altogether by referring to it as the "posts page" instead.
3. Using "posts page" makes this label consistent with the "— Posts Page" label that is applied to that page on the Pages edit.php screen.

[kellenmace]

Use "Stick this post to the posts page" wording

[Presskopp]

related #42468