Slightly confusing wording in save options

  • When I click “Save All Tabs”, it takes me to a new page, telling me my site details have been saved. Superb!

    However, the page also says:

    “Save Changes” will update the data you have entered in these fields.

    “Publish Terms” will create or update your terms based on all of your choices.

    If you have made manual changes to your terms after publishing them previously with Legull, “Publish Terms” will overwrite those manual changes.

    The only option after this is “Publish Terms”. There is no “Save Changes” anywhere, that I can see.

    I appreciate this is just a terminology issue, but it’s rather confusing!

    I assume that hitting “Save All Tabs” will merely add blocks to the Terms that were not already present (e.g. by turning 18+ on, you’ll get a clause in the TOS) whilst retaining custom-edited text in other sections?

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  • Thread Starter eggplant_casserole

    (@eggplant_casserole)

    After doing a reinstall of my site, I noted that nothing actually happens upon hitting Save All Tabs to the Terms – you have to publish them for your changes to take effect.

    I misread:

    “Save Changes” will update the data you have entered in these fields.

    as meaning you could use it to only update changed options. However, that’s not the case. Perhaps it would be better to explain that you have to hit Save All Tabs on the Getting Started Tab (not Save Changes as is stated), and then MUST hit Publish Terms, which will overwrite any changes you’ve previously made?

    It is a shame previous changes are overwritten, but I appreciate how much of a headache it would be to write something that selectively replaces text in a user-editable post! I guess it would be possible to show each section of text on the Publish page and allow the user to edit them before publishing, thus saving the blocks of text. However, I think this would be a bit of a mess (as is often the case where a plugin has lots of text fields) and I rather like the simple, streamlined approach already taken!

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