Clarifying what "Private" means in post visibility

[danielbachhuber]

When choosing visibility for a single post, “Private” doesn’t make much sense as a label and requires extra explanation as to whom the post will be private to.

Context: At the Newbie Workshop during WCSF 2011, we had to talk brand new users through the myriad of features offered in WordPress. "Private" as a post visibility required extra explanation and even I realized I didn't know what it did.

"Private" should be replaced with text like "Private to blog editors and administrators"

[danielbachhuber]

Replace "Private" text with "Private to blog editors and administrators"

[SergeyBiryukov]

Maybe just “Private to editors and administrators”, without “blog”?

[danielbachhuber]

That makes sense to me too

[westi]

I'm not sure that adding this longer string actually improves this much.

Private posts are confusing in general and we don't support them very well - I think we need to step back and decide whether or not we want to keep them at all and how they should be presented from a UX perspective.

[jane]

Agree with westi. I don't want that long of a string cluttering up things. Also @danielbachhuber, you were doing the newbie workshop using wordpress.com, which has an entirely additional level of confusion because of the existence of private blogs there. I would rather .org support a fully private blog than individual private posts, as realistically you could just save posts as draft in a lot of the use cases for that feature.

[ryan]

Punting enhancements from 3.3.

[sillybean]

I agree that adding a long string doesn't help the situation -- especially given that plugins can change the privacy-related roles.

Maybe fixing #7745 would help this situation as well.

[helen]

Replying to sillybean:

especially given that plugins can change the privacy-related roles.

Yep. Maybe something about what it does (by default) would be good in the help tab - I didn't see it on a quick glance.

[sillybean]

Adding to the help text on publish settings to clarify what "private" does

[sillybean]

Help text to clarify what "private" and "password protected" mean

[sillybean]

Updated the patch to break up the Publish section into separate strings for each topic. I've left the Format and Thumbnail sections alone because their text is more cohesive.

[wonderboymusic]

18418.diff​ is a refresh

[wonderboymusic]

In 34004:

Cleanup the text for Publish Settings > Publish in the edit-form-advanced help tab. Clarify that Private posts aren't hidden from editors and administrators.

Props sillybean.
Fixes #18418.

[ryan]

I'm going to add some before and after screenshots. I'm attempting before and after shots of all visual changes on multiple devices. Screenshots are used in visual changelogs and the Today in the Nightly posts, all of which increases awareness of our usability and make ui review easier. ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/today-in-the-nightly/

If you'd like to help collect visuals, we want before and after screenshots on at least two devices, with one of them preferably being a phone. We're increasing our mobile/touch awareness by testing and capturing all visual changes from phones. Provide whatever screenshots you can. The Flow Patrol team will handle the remainder. Developers, taking screenshots of your patches and commits really helps ui/ux review and flow patrol. ​https://make.wordpress.org/flow/

[pavelevap]

Why was this help paragraph splitted into several strings? It is one long text and for translators is better when they translate it at once? There was no visual change and splitting strings is not helpfull...

[ryan]

Replying to pavelevap:

Why was this help paragraph splitted into several strings? It is one long text and for translators is better when they translate it at once? There was no visual change and splitting strings is not helpfull...

Indeed. This adds concatenation and reduces context, things we avoid when marking strings. Suggest revert.

[wonderboymusic]

In 34016:

After [34004], don't break apart the paragraph into multiple translatable strings.

Fixes #18418.