Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#32500 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Default comment form confusing for non technical people
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 3.0 |
Component: | Comments | Keywords: | |
Focuses: | ui | Cc: |
Description
Recently I set up a wordpress.com site for a starting local entrepreneur and they were very happy to have setup their website. After that they shared their achievement on Facebook and then I got the same remark from two different people:
What are these weird codes at the bottom of the website. Is there an error?
After looking at the website I realized they were talking about the HTML tags under the comment form:
This text is very confusing for non-technical users and it doesn't leave a good first impression about the website.
We could remove this line and add wysiwyg to the comment form or we could add a line along the lines of "You can add special formatting using HTML(linked to some explanation)".
This is the default value in 'comment_notes_after'. It can be filtered using 'comment_form_defaults' but also overwritten by passing an arg into comment_form. That being said I agree this is not very helpful for most users leaving a comment.