Make WordPress Core

Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#3749 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

"different than" should read "different from"

Reported by: jonnylamb's profile jonnylamb Owned by: ryan's profile ryan
Milestone: 2.2 Priority: low
Severity: trivial Version: 2.0.6
Component: Administration Keywords: has-patch commit
Focuses: Cc:

Description

In the General Options in WordPress admin, there is the following text:

If you want your blog homepage to be different than the directory you installed WordPress in, enter that address here.

This should read:

If you want your blog homepage to be different from the directory you installed WordPress in, enter that address here.

Here are some on-line docs that agree with my view:

Attached is a simple patch to correct this issue.

Attachments (2)

different_from.diff (1.0 KB) - added by jonnylamb 17 years ago.
Patch that corrects "different than" text in General Options.
3749-2.diff (1.2 KB) - added by foolswisdom 17 years ago.

Download all attachments as: .zip

Change History (8)

@jonnylamb
17 years ago

Patch that corrects "different than" text in General Options.

#1 @jonnylamb
17 years ago

  • Milestone set to 2.0.6

#2 @foolswisdom
17 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 2.0.6 to 2.2
  • Version set to 2.0.6

#3 @Nazgul
17 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added

#4 @markjaquith
17 years ago

This you catch, but the hanging preposition in the same sentence gets a pass? :-)

@foolswisdom
17 years ago

#5 @foolswisdom
17 years ago

  • Keywords commit added
  • Owner changed from anonymous to ryan

#6 @rob1n
17 years ago

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

(In [5141]) Some grammar fixes in options-general.php. Props jonnylamb and foolswisdom. fixes #3749

Note: See TracTickets for help on using tickets.