Date in "Incoming Links" dashboard widget is never shown

[Latz]

The Dashboard widget "Incoming Links" has a checkbox "Display item date?". The date is never shown because there are two variables which are not used, never set, and therefore the date is never displayed (wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php, line 823):

if ( !empty($show_author) || !empty($show_summary) )

I can see no reason for these conditions. Removing them will produce the expected output.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Introduced in [6705]. Related: ticket:6432:1. Makes sense to remove them, I guess.

Should probably also combine the strings for better i18n support (20644.2.diff​).

[nacin]

Seems like using %1, %3, and %4 in the second string could be confusing? Typo, or an attempt at standardizing the placeholders in the first string?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to nacin:

Typo, or an attempt at standardizing the placeholders in the first string?

The latter. It's the same as the block in line 809 (all four strings share the same placeholders):
​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.4.1/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php#L809

[nacin]

In [21249]:

Fix the 'Display item date' configuration option for the Incoming Links dashboard widget. props Latz, SergeyBiryukov, fixes #20644.