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Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#3525 closed task (blessed) (fixed)

Rephrase wording in new about page, features section

Reported by: flashbash's profile flashbash Owned by: dd32's profile dd32
Milestone: Priority: normal
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Description

This phrase needs rewording:

Create WordPress themes for clients, customers, and for WordPress users.

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-main/page-about-features.php?marks=132#L132

I suggest going with:

Create WordPress themes for clients and for WordPress users.

Change History (6)

#1 @flashbash
6 years ago

  • Summary changed from Rephrase wording in new about page, section features to Rephrase wording in new about page, features section

#2 @Otto42
6 years ago

I'd get rid of "clients" too. That's a weird word to have in a community site.

#3 follow-up: @dd32
6 years ago

  • Owner set to dd32
  • Status changed from new to accepted

While I don't see any issue with the wording, I'd also like to see it have some kind of "or for yourself" phrasing in there as well.

I'm chasing this up to find out what (if at all) the text should change to.

#4 in reply to: ↑ 3 @flashbash
6 years ago

Replying to dd32:

While I don't see any issue with the wording, I'd also like to see it have some kind of "or for yourself" phrasing in there as well.

I'm chasing this up to find out what (if at all) the text should change to.

I actually stumbled upon this while translating. I'm not a native speaker, but at least in German, clients and customers would be the same, even if I use synonyms. So there's this weird double mention of customers...
Having it mention "or for yourself" as well is actually a great idea!

Last edited 6 years ago by flashbash (previous) (diff)

#5 @mapk
6 years ago

Let's go with this:

Create WordPress themes for clients, other WordPress users, or yourself.

I think the 'clients' term still works for the community seeing as a large part of the community build websites for clients or serve clients is some fashion.

#6 @dd32
6 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from accepted to closed

In 6909:

Main: About: Update the 'Create WordPress themes..' text.

Props mapk.
See #3046.
Fixes #3525.

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