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Opened 4 weeks ago

Closed 11 days ago

#63301 closed enhancement (fixed)

Improve Post Password Form Message

Reported by: tyrannous's profile Tyrannous Owned by: sergeybiryukov's profile SergeyBiryukov
Milestone: 6.9 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Posts, Post Types Keywords: has-patch
Focuses: Cc:

Description

The current sentence displayed on password-protected posts is:

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

I’d like to propose updating this message to:

This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below.

Changes made:

  1. Grammar and punctuation correction: Added a hyphen in “password-protected” (as it is a compound adjective) and a comma before “please”.
  2. Clarity: Replaced “your password” with “the password” — since it refers to the password set by the post author, not the user’s own.
  3. Consistency: Changed the colon at the end to a full stop. The colon is redundant because the form label for the password field already includes one, causing a slightly awkward duplication.

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Change History (5)

This ticket was mentioned in PR #8707 on WordPress/wordpress-develop by @Tyrannous.


4 weeks ago
#1

  • Keywords has-patch added

This PR updates the post password form message from:

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

to:

This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/63301

#2 @SergeyBiryukov
4 weeks ago

  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 6.9

#3 @SergeyBiryukov
11 days ago

  • Owner set to SergeyBiryukov
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In 60222:

Text Changes: Improve the post password form message for clarity and consistency.

Follow-up to [323], [394], [9138], [25582], [59736].

Props Tyrannous.
Fixes #63301.

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