id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses 47267,Let's improve the writing -- and the message -- in the WordPress sample post.,marybaum,,"Here's the current copy in the WP sample post: ""This is an example of a WordPress post, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many posts as you like in order to share with your readers what is on your mind."" For starters, let's fix the opening sentence to make it correct English: ""This is an example of a WordPress post. You could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. ... "" But we can also be a little more helpful. If someone needs to know what a post is, or what a page is, maybe they'd appreciate something more like this: ""This is an example of a WordPress post. Think of a post as an article in your own magazine, and write from your own perspective. Create as many posts as you like, or as it takes to make your case. "" Here's a dummy post I use with a client who might be a little more sophisticated: ` {{{

This is a sample intro paragraph we can use to hook visitors into reading the article. With Gutenberg – I mean the block editor – and some shrewd changes on the style sheet, we can make this blend in or stand out.

Up to now we’ve shown this dummy copy to be a whole lot longer than it’s likely ever going to be, even if we have a long story to tell, because we’ll want to break up that longer story into a series of posts.

Taking the measure.

Another thing we do for readability is to spec a maximum character width on the paragraph tag. There’s even a unit for that! It’s the ch. I set the

element to a maximum width of 55 to 75 characters.

In traditional typography, the line length is called the measure. If you want to impress someone (from a very short list!) in a meeting, you can say, ""I think a 75-character measure is fine, but 55 characters is a lot more comfortable for some people."" You'll sound like you've been setting type for 40 years.

This is a sample subhead.

I tend to use subheads that stand out at smallish sizes: they’re bold, or script, or they might be highly decorative. Their purpose is to keep your reader interested in discovering the next little bit of copy--or to tell the next part of the story in a nutshell, or both. Designwise, if there’s a distinctive typeface in your logo, you’ll likely see it repeated in subheads, where they’ll help the content pull the reader’s eyes down farther into the copy.

That’s the hope, anyway.

}}} ` So there are lots of ways to fix this, from the sublime to the stupidly simple. Do we want to consider the easy grammatical fix as has-patch? Do we want to involve another team, like Marketing? If we add subheads and explain why they're a good idea, we'll patch the CSS accordingly. So I guess this is a needs-patch if it gets blessed.",enhancement,closed,normal,,Text Changes,5.3,normal,invalid,,,