This updates some inline comments to better match the guidelines and recommendations set forth in the make/core and make/docs handbooks:
> In general, use second person in your documentation. Second person depicts a friendly tone, with a perfect focus on the reader. In addition to this, directly addressing the reader helps avoid passive voice; thereby preventing unwanted confusion.
> ...
> the word “we” should be avoided (...) unless its made very clear which group is speaking.
Includes:
* Replacing first-person usage of "we" with second person point of view.
* Making small clarification adjustments where the voice is much too casual or lacks clear context, especially for non-native English speakers.
References:
* [https://make.wordpress.org/docs/style-guide/language-grammar/grammatical-person/ Style Guide: Grammatical person]
* [https://make.wordpress.org/docs/handbook/documentation-team-handbook/handbooks-style-and-formatting-guide/ Handbooks & HelpHub Style and Formatting Guide]
* [https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best-practices/post-comment-guidelines/#style-and-substance Post & Comment Guidelines: Style and Substance]
Follow-up to [2176], [3430], [4676], [6009], [7991], [12688], [12762], [26008], [28978], [44488], [44962], [51979], [53131], [53132], [53156], [53131], [54200].
Props ironprogrammer, costdev, jorbin, SergeyBiryukov.
See #57052.
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This fixes a `Variable "$comment_post_ID" is not in valid snake_case format` WPCS warning.
`$comment_post_ID`, while matching the database field of the same name, does not follow the WordPress coding standards, so the variable is now renamed to `$comment_post_id`.
Additionally, these variables are renamed for clarity:
* `$tb_id` to `$post_id` (this was not the trackback ID)
* `$tb_url` to `$trackback_url`
Follow-up to [172], [637], [1616],
See #55647, #56244.
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This changes updates many strings to remove self-references to an undefined "we" collective across the WordPress Administration.
The goal of this change is to better match the guidelines and recommendations set forth in the make/core handbook, specifically:
> the word "we" should be avoided (…) unless its made very clear which group is speaking.
Props johnbillion, shital-patel, audrasjb, marybaum, SergeyBiryukov, peterwilsoncc, johnjamesjacoby, kebbet, costdev, chaion07, davidbaumwald.
Fixes#46057.
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This avoids the performance overhead of the function call every time `dirname( __FILE__ )` was used instead of `__DIR__`.
This commit also includes:
* Removing unnecessary parentheses from `include`/`require` statements. These are language constructs, not function calls.
* Replacing `include` statements for several files with `require_once`, for consistency:
* `wp-admin/admin-header.php`
* `wp-admin/admin-footer.php`
* `wp-includes/version.php`
Props ayeshrajans, desrosj, valentinbora, jrf, joostdevalk, netweb.
Fixes#48082.
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Adds checks throughout to allow for `wp_new_comment()` returning a `WP_Error` instance.
Updates the docs for the `pre_comment_approved` filter to include that it can be passed an error.
Props enrico.sorcinelli, ryotsun.
Fixes#39730.
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- Adds a complete hash notation for the `WP_Date_Query` arguments array.
- Adds missing documentation for the `date_query_valid_columns` and `get_date_sql` filter hooks.
Props aeg0125 for the incremental patches.
Fixes#25552.
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* Consolidate the logic to avoid appending ellipsis if the entire string is shown.
* Show ellipsis after truncated filenames and post titles.
props solarissmoke, bpetty, SergeyBiryukov. fixes#11446.
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The exceptions to this are update_post_meta() and add_post_meta() which are often used by plugins in POST handlers and will continue accepting slashed data for now.
Introduce wp_upate_post_meta() and wp_add_post_meta() as unslashed alternatives to update_post_meta() and add_post_meta(). These functions could become methods in WP_Post so don't use them too heavily yet.
Remove all escape() calls from wp_xmlrpc_server. Now that core expects unslashed data this is no longer needed.
Remove addslashes(), addslashes_gpc(), add_magic_quotes() calls on data being prepared for handoff to core functions that until now expected slashed data. Adding slashes in no longer necessary.
Introduce wp_unslash() and use to it remove slashes from GPCS data before using it in core API. Almost every instance of stripslashes() in core should now be wp_unslash(). In the future (a release or three) when GPCS is no longer slashed, wp_unslash() will stop stripping slashes and simply return what is passed. At this point wp_unslash() calls can be removed from core.
Introduce wp_slash() for slashing GPCS data. This will also turn into a noop once GPCS is no longer slashed. wp_slash() should almost never be used. It is mainly of use in unit tests.
Plugins should use wp_unslash() on data being passed to core API.
Plugins should no longer slash data being passed to core. So when you get_post() and then wp_insert_post() the post data from get_post() no longer needs addslashes(). Most plugins were not bothering with this. They will magically start doing the right thing. Unfortunately, those few souls who did it properly will now have to avoid calling addslashes() for 3.6 and newer.
Use wp_kses_post() and wp_kses_data(), which expect unslashed data, instead of wp_filter_post_kses() and wp_filter_kses(), which expect slashed data. Filters are no longer passed slashed data.
Remove many no longer necessary calls to $wpdb->escape() and esc_sql().
In wp_get_referer() and wp_get_original_referer(), return unslashed data.
Remove old stripslashes() calls from WP_Widget::update() handlers. These haven't been necessary since WP_Widget.
Switch several queries over to prepare().
Expect something to break.
Props alexkingorg
see #21767
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