“Publish” in metabox caption is verb in imperative mood and same as command “Publish”: Not good!

[demetris]

This should not be a verb in imperative mood since it is not a command to publish.

(I sometimes find myself approaching the area, in order to click Save Draft, and then retreating fast as soon as my eye catches the verb “Publish” nearby.)

Some alternative ideas:

• Publishing
• Publish Status (used in 2.6 -- sounds a bit clumsy to me)
• Content State (used in Habari 0.6 -- has exactness but sounds a bit clinical to me)

[filosofo]

I vote for "Status".

[mrmist]

I don't see a great need to change this. To Publish is the box's primary purpose. Status is no better than Publish, and in fact is (for me at least) a bit worse, because I would rarely use any of the functionality in the box other than the Publish button.

If I were to do anything with the box, I'd collapse it completely, and call it "Publishing Options" with the Publish button itself extracted out on its own. All of which would be 2.8 I guess.

[azaozz]

"Publish" may not be the best there, but the other options aren't better... To publish also means "to announce, to make public".

Feel free to reopen with a more fitting postbox title.