[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38049: Rename Headings in TinyMCE

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#38049: Rename Headings in TinyMCE
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 Reporter:  mrwweb       |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Editor       |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
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 Forking a proposal from #27159 where Heading 1 will be removed from
 TinyMCE in WordPress 4.7:

 Multiple people have suggested renaming the Headings in the editor '''to
 encourage correct usage''' (that is the goal of this ticket). I would add
 that this might be combined with actually removing Headings 5 and 6 which
 I imagine are barely [properly] ever used. (Theme and plugin authors will
 always be able to add Headings back via filters.) Only having to name
 three levels of headings also makes this much more feasible.

 A few ideas just to get things started.

 '''Concept 1'''

 - Heading (H2)
 - Subheading (H3)
 - Subsubheading (H4)

 '''Concept 2'''
 - Section Title (H2)
 - Subsection Title (H3)
 - Subsubsection Title (H4)


 '''Concept 3 (use indentation to imply hierarchy)'''
 - Heading 2
 - – Heading 3
 - –– Heading 4

 At least at first, I think it would make sense to retain the HTML heading
 level in parentheses as shown above to help technical editors understand
 what's going on.

 To encourage correct heading usage, the new labels must communicate to all
 editors that the heading levels are hierarchical and not selected based on
 perceived importance or (obviously) visual appearance.

 One primary problem is "what comes after sub? subsub?" Most rich text
 editors editors I've looked at while writing this ticket either using
 "Heading #" OR give only two levels of Heading (which avoids the
 "subsubsub" problems).

 '''References'''
 - Medium [https://blog.medium.com/introducing-improvements-to-titles-
 subtitles-and-headings-97978206d8f9#.n4ygmct3p just changed their
 formatting toolbar to focus users on appearance over heading levels]
 because they were apparently being abused. I think this is pretty
 obviously the opposite direction this ticket intends to go (giving into
 visual over hierarchy).
 - I honestly can't find other examples of editors doing this beyond the
 exceptions mentioned above, so examples are highly appreciated.

 cc: @hugobaeta

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