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Opened 17 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

#3695 closed defect (bug)

Inconsistent naming for Links — at Version 12

Reported by: karmadude's profile karmadude Owned by: anonymous's profile anonymous
Milestone: 2.5 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 2.1
Component: General Keywords: 2nd-opinion
Focuses: Cc:

Description (last modified by rob1n)

There seems to be inconsistent naming when it comes to links. Some places it's links, other places blogroll and now now bookmarks. Could all this be consolidated into either links or bookmarks to avoid all the confusion.

Change History (13)

#1 @foolswisdom
17 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 2.1.1 to 2.3

Please explain where the various terms are used and what makes it confusing or incorrect.

#2 @markjaquith
17 years ago

I'm +1 for "Bookmarks" for the following reasons:

  • Not all lists of links are "Blogrolls"
  • "Blogroll" is a term that has no real-life connotation
  • "Blogroll" is a trendy term that very well may be transient
  • "Bookmarks" is used in the back end (WP functions)

#3 @ryan
17 years ago

I like bookmarks too, but we've been bouncing back and forth and I'm just going to sit this round out. :-)

#4 @foolswisdom
17 years ago

markjaquith, sneaky sneaky, you seem to be changing the topic of this ticket ;_) If I understand correctly, karamdude's initial report is that in some places it is not consistent.

karamadude, JeremyVisser found one in #3718, are there others?

#5 @markjaquith
17 years ago

Well, you can't solve inconsistency without choosing which consistency you want. :-)

#6 @johnbillion
17 years ago

I vote for reverting to "links" and using the term consistently as it's unarguably the most descriptive and simplist term. "Blogroll" is an atrocious term and whoever decided to use it should be shot at dawn.

I'm not sure about "bookmarks". The links on your blog aren't really bookmarks are they? They're, um, links.

#7 @Otto42
17 years ago

My 2 cents:

The Blogroll link should be named "Bookmarks", and most of it should be moved to somewhere under "Manage" like the posts and such are. Everywhere that references "Links" on these pages should be changed to "Bookmarks". The term "Links" causes confusion among many people to whom "links" are any sort of a href inside a post or elsewhere.

So, I say that we should:

  • Move Blogroll->Manage Blogroll to Manage->Bookmarks.
  • Move Blogroll->Import Links to Manage->Import Bookmarks.
  • Eliminate Blogroll->Add Links entirely (there's an "Add links" link on the Manage Blogroll page already, although it should have a more obvious placement)
  • Modify both of the new Manage pages to call them Bookmarks.

@Otto42
17 years ago

Bookmark renaming/menu reordering patch

#8 @Otto42
17 years ago

There's a patch to do what I described above. Most of it, anyway, I may have missed a few spots.

#9 @Otto42
17 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 2.3 to 2.2
  • Priority changed from low to normal

#10 @Otto42
17 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added

#11 @foolswisdom
17 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 2.2 to 2.4

#12 @rob1n
17 years ago

  • Description modified (diff)
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