#57226 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Inconsistency in the use of text cases in the WordPress dashboard
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Milestone: | 6.2 | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Administration | Keywords: | has-patch |
Focuses: | ui-copy | Cc: |
Description
There seems to be a serious inconsistency in following the use of a standardized test case across the WordPress dashboard. The inconsistency has been observed in form labels, titles, and buttons. Sharing some screenshots as attachments.
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Change History (15)
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2 years ago
Settings > General - The last label is capitalized - Expected 'On' to be in small case (Week Starts on) as most other labels were following title case
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2 years ago
- Component changed from General to Administration
- Focuses ui-copy added
- Summary changed from Inconstancy in the use of text cases in the WordPress dashboard to Inconsistency in the use of text cases in the WordPress dashboard
This ticket was mentioned in PR #3703 on WordPress/wordpress-develop by @audrasjb.
2 years ago
#2
- Keywords has-patch added
Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57226
### About Privacy Settings Screen
There are a few use case:
- When referring to the Privacy Policy page, "Privacy Policy" should probably use capitalization on "Privacy Policy", but "page" should remain lowercase
- When referring to the fact that a website needs, let's say "a relevant privacy policy", I'd says that "privacy policy" should stay lowercase.
This PR also updates other small capitalization issues.
What do you think?
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2 years ago
- Owner set to audrasjb
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
In 54897:
#4
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2 years ago
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Wrong commit assignment, sorry. Reopening.
#5
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2 years ago
I'm not sure I'd like changing the settings screens to use Title Case, particularly with results like:
Create A New Privacy Policy Page
This seems a little much to me, and I'd personally prefer sentence case:
Create a new privacy policy page
Or, if "privacy policy" is assumed to be the name of the new page, then:
Create a new Privacy Policy page
On the Site Health page:
1 critical issue
3 recommended improvements
These aren't actually "small case" as noted in the screenshot above. "1" and "3" are the start of each of these sentences, so it's valid sentence case.
Settings > Writing