In About.php update "Welcome to WordPress (version)" to a dynamic string

[NekoJonez]

​https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/admin/nl-be/default/?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=27039&sort%5Bby%5D=translation_date_added&sort%5Bhow%5D=asc&historypage

​https://build.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-admin/about.php?marks=63#L63

In my honest opinion, to save a little bit of time for the translators and not have a string with many olds and updating every new version... I think it would be nice if this string also had %s so one variable needs to be updated.

[mukesh27]

WordPress 7.0 also have similar string ​https://build.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/wp-admin/about.php#L65
WordPress 6.9 - ​https://build.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9/wp-admin/about.php#L65

[NekoJonez]

Replying to mukesh27:

WordPress 7.0 also have similar string ​https://build.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/wp-admin/about.php#L65
WordPress 6.9 - ​https://build.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9/wp-admin/about.php#L65

Looking at my NL_BE translation history, it was at one point a dynamic string. So, this must have changed in the release of 6.8 -> 6.9? Maybe? But yes, those two versions also had that non-dynamic string.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to NekoJonez:

Looking at my NL_BE translation history, it was at one point a dynamic string. So, this must have changed in the release of 6.8 -> 6.9? Maybe?

Yes, it appears that we still have WordPress %s as a dynamic string added for 6.1 in [54499] / #56357, but also Welcome to WordPress 6.9 was added with a hardcoded number in [61204] / #63941. Perhaps it was originally intended for that release only, but now it can be changed to a dynamic string too.

The About page heading hardcodes the version as Welcome to WordPress 7.1, so translators retranslate it every major release.

The dynamic Welcome to WordPress %s form was in core through 6.7, but [61204] reintroduced a hardcoded number. This restores the placeholder and passes $display_major_version, the same variable the two sibling headings on the page already use.

Rendered output is unchanged; $display_major_version is the major version, so point releases still read Welcome to WordPress 7.1.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65895

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@itzmekhokan Thanks for the PR!

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@itzmekhokan Thanks for the PR!

When an issue is marked as good-first-bug, please don't pick it up, as these issues are intended for new contributors who are looking to make their first contribution and learn how the contribution process works.

🤦‍♂️ my bad.

[NekoJonez]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

Replying to NekoJonez:

Looking at my NL_BE translation history, it was at one point a dynamic string. So, this must have changed in the release of 6.8 -> 6.9? Maybe?

Yes, it appears that we still have WordPress %s as a dynamic string added for 6.1 in [54499] / #56357, but also Welcome to WordPress 6.9 was added with a hardcoded number in [61204] / #63941. Perhaps it was originally intended for that release only, but now it can be changed to a dynamic string too.

#Thinking out loud...

Maybe we should have it in the handbook that when the about page is created, we don't use hardcoded strings? Since, if a fellow contributor makes the about page and takes an old template, it doesn't have the dynamic string, and that's maybe what happened? ... Now, I tell my thinking here not fully knowing how the About page is created for each version, but it might be a nice fix for this too?

[peterwilsoncc]

In 63329:

Help/About: Update heading string to use placeholder.

Updates the "Welcome to WordPress X.X" heading to use a placeholder for the version number to ease l10n efforts with a reusable string across each version of WordPress.

Props nekojonez, khokansardar, mukesh27, SergeyBiryukov.
Fixes #65895.