Discourage search engines setup/config inconsistency

[Clorith]

When setting up your WordPress site, you are provided with a checkbox stating Allow search engines to index this site, often unchecked during setup while preparing your site (or at least this is how I personally use this feature).

Once under Settings > Reading the same option occurs, but in reverse, here it states Discourage search engines from indexing this site, this time checking it to achieve the same behavior.

I can see that both wordings are used if the blog_privacy_selector hook is triggered, here it makes sense to have both wordings since it is a set of radio inputs, one to allow and one to discourage, but for the (now) default checkbox it feels like keeping the wording consistent would be beneficial.

[SergeyBiryukov]

27628.patch​ would revert a part of [21851]. See #16416, specifically comment:44:ticket:16416.

[Clorith]

Ahh yes, I see. Maybe the wording of the setup should be the one changed to reflect the Settings option then, unless more consideration has been put into removing it from the install?

[ocean90]

@nacin @SergeyBiryukov Any thoughts on this?

[DrewAPicture]

+1 for changing the string on the install page to match the setting.

If I remember correctly, we went with the "discourage" vernacular in settings explicitly because "Allow" implies that you have ultimate control over whether search engines index your site, which isn't really true. The subtext of "It is up to search engines to honor this request" along with "Discourage" makes that relationship clearer.

[ocean90]

In 34752:

Install: Replace the "Privacy" setting with the "Search Engine Visibility" setting from Reading Settings.

Props Clorith, ocean90.
Fixes #27628.
See #16416.

[pavelevap]

This should be also applied for Multisite and creating blogs? Is there any related ticket except #29305 (focused only on i18n)?

[DrewAPicture]

@pavelevap Opened #34149.