10 Responses to “WordPress Taking Out The What?”
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I agree.
“Delete” is so clean and simple. “Trash” sounds like an 80′s rock band or something.
Can’t wait for the first official “Restore-WordPress-Delete-Functionality” plugin
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your comment. 80′s rockband gave me a laugh. With the long hair!
Just for the record Jane Wells tweeted the following:
to which I replied:
Delete is quite clearly the standard action (at least with email apps!).
Did they give any official reason for replacing the term? Like Jeff, I’d say Delete is better sounding than Trash. Delete is like a one-click affair, whereas Trash sounds like delete made complicated and you get the feeling that the trashed file/link is still there somewhere.
Anyway, should that day come, I think I know enough PHP to dive into the wordpress turmoil, search for the ‘trash’ word, and replace it back with ‘Delete’. Hopefully I won’t mess up my blog in the process.
sounds like you guys have something against 80′s rockbands and long hair? come on you have all been there! hahaha
i sort of disagree..
we can not go back to deleted items
but we can look through trash items if we accidently delete them
do you see where i am coming from?
Hi Shaddha,
I’ve got no problem with the functionality being added, just the terminology – mainly because Trash isn’t normally used in Australia or the UK.
Personally, I’d go with Delete (the action) and Recycle Bin (where they go), because that terminology is more international (rather than US centric). Also, that’s what Windows uses, and I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of WordPress users are also Windows users. Maybe the WordPress developers don’t use Windows, but most of the end users do.
I think I know enough PHP to dive into the wordpress turmoil, search for the ‘trash’ word, and replace it back with ‘Delete’. Hopefully I won’t mess up my blog in the process. Thanks for the post.
How about Recycle bin like on Windows?
Are more and more parts of computing going to be Americanized? We have “color” and “center” in HTML coding, and it’s even a mission to find a British dictionary for Word or Firefox!
True that “delete” sounds like you can’t get it back, and trash is old school. How bout “chest”? I’ve seen some anti-virus programs use the term…
This is an interesting post. I had never really thought about the terms that are used and whether the words are universally used in the English language. It makes sense, it is just something I hadn’t really thought about when building software and naming the actions. I do understand the reason for the change though. It is more representative of the actual functionality.