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#57226 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Inconsistency in the use of text cases in the WordPress dashboard
| Reported by: | aravindajith | Owned by: | audrasjb |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 6.2 |
| Component: | Administration | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch |
| Cc: | Focuses: | ui-copy |
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.
Attachments (7)
Change History (15)
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4 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
#1
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4 years ago
- Component General → Administration
- Focuses ui-copy added
- Summary Inconstancy in the use of text cases in the WordPress dashboard → Inconsistency in the use of text cases in the WordPress dashboard
This ticket was mentioned in PR #3703 on WordPress/wordpress-develop by @audrasjb.
4 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?
#4
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4 years ago
- Resolution fixed
- Status closed → reopened
Wrong commit assignment, sorry. Reopening.
#5
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4 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