[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12554: Change label in UI for Post Thumbnail and Page Image to "Featured Image" for both

[WordPress Trac]

#12554: Change label in UI for Post Thumbnail and Page Image to "Featured Image"
for both
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 Reporter:  jane            |       Owner:     
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.0
Component:  UI              |     Version:  2.9
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:     
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Changes (by mikeschinkel):

 * cc: mikeschinkel@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:5 nacin]:
 > What I mean is, when we change the label, we won't bother changing the
 functions.
 >
 > We renamed the functions (briefly) last time is because they still
 hadn't progressed out of a beta release yet. Otherwise, we would very
 likely not rename an entire API for a change in terminology driven by UX.

 Just a comment about this.  I agree that often it's not practical to
 change function names but please be aware that having names in the UI that
 are inconsistent with the function names that support said features can
 make it much more difficult for a plugin developer to figure out what's
 going on.  For example, the featured image meta box has disappeared on a
 site I'm working on and it was unclear if I should not set the custom post
 type "supports" option to include "featured-image" instead of "thumbnail".
 Tracking down that answer took some time whereas if the names were
 consistent no such question would have occurred to me.

 Something to consider...  If you can't change the internal names because
 of conflict so be it but if you can create new function names etc. and
 deprecate the older ones I think there's real value there. JMTCW.

 (P.S. I still haven't figured out why the metabox disappeared...)

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