Feature #2182: Change "People" in the main nav and WP Bar nav to "Members" - CUNY Academic Commons - CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System

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Feature #2182

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Change "People" in the main nav and WP Bar nav to "Members"

Added by Chris Stein over 11 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

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Resolved

Priority name:

Normal

Assignee:

Boone Gorges

Category name:

WordPress (misc)

Target version:

1.6

Start date:

2012-10-12

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Description

Except for in the main navigation and in the blue part of the WP bar navigation at the top of the screen, we use the word "members" to refer to the registered users of the site. In those two places the word "People" is used.

Opening this ticket to discuss whether or not to change People to Members in those places (and in any other place I might have missed).

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MembersPeople-Homepage-5.png (268 KB) MembersPeople-Homepage-5.png		Chris Stein, 2014-03-27 04:50 PM
MembersPeople-ActivityPage.png (13.2 KB) MembersPeople-ActivityPage.png		Chris Stein, 2014-03-27 04:50 PM
MembersPeople-MembersPage-5.png (83.2 KB) MembersPeople-MembersPage-5.png		Chris Stein, 2014-03-27 04:50 PM
Screen_Shot_2014-03-31_at_10_58_11_PM.png (32.9 KB) Screen_Shot_2014-03-31_at_10_58_11_PM.png		Matt Gold, 2014-03-31 10:59 PM

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Updated by Matt Gold over 11 years ago

Interesting. I'm fine with our team discussing this here, but I'd like this to be discussed at the CAT Subcommittee meeting, as I think that the reason we went with "People" had to do with input from that committee (I remember Maura Smale having input there. Have added her here as a watcher).

Part of me likes "People" because it makes the site seem less like a member-only affair and more open -- here are the people who make up the CUNY academic commons.

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Updated by Matt Gold over 11 years ago

Category name set to WordPress (misc)
Status changed from New to Assigned
Assignee set to Chris Stein
Target version set to 1.5
Severity set to High impact

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Updated by Maura Smale over 11 years ago

Thanks Matt and Chris. Thinking on this more, I'm on the fence -- like Matt, I feel that "people" is friendlier and more real. But the aura of exclusivity that "members" carries could go either way -- some folks might like the feeling that comes with being a member. Hmmm... I guess I'm looking forward to discussing this at our next meeting.

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Updated by Boone Gorges almost 11 years ago

Target version changed from 1.5 to 1.6

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Updated by Chris Stein about 10 years ago

File MembersPeople-Homepage-5.png MembersPeople-Homepage-5.png added
File MembersPeople-ActivityPage.png MembersPeople-ActivityPage.png added
File MembersPeople-MembersPage-5.png MembersPeople-MembersPage-5.png added
Status changed from Assigned to Reporter Feedback
Assignee changed from Chris Stein to Matt Gold

I'm going to recommend using People as the default. The exception is in groups where Members should still apply.

The places to change are:

Homepage: Change Members to People in the list under Who's online (the main navigation already has People). See MembersPeople-Homepage screenshot
People Page: People Directory sounds awkward so I'm recommending "CUNY Academic Commons Directory", also change the placeholder search text to Search People (or Search Directory, people is in the attached image), And change All Members to All People. See MembersPeople-MembersPage screenshot.
Activity Page: In the filter change Show New Members to Show New People. See MembersPeople-ActivityPage screenshot.

There may be some other dropdowns I missed. If so and changing Members to People makes sense then I say go ahead and make the change. If not it can be kicked back here for discussion.

Changing to Matt for your blessing before sending this to dev team.

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Updated by Matt Gold about 10 years ago

Status changed from Reporter Feedback to Assigned

Looks great. Thank you, Chris!

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Updated by Boone Gorges about 10 years ago

Status changed from Assigned to Testing Required
Assignee changed from Matt Gold to Chris Stein

These changes are ready to test on cdev.

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Updated by Maura Smale about 10 years ago

Thanks Boone and Chris! I think People is a good way to go.

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Updated by Matt Gold about 10 years ago

File Screen_Shot_2014-03-31_at_10_58_11_PM.png Screen_Shot_2014-03-31_at_10_58_11_PM.png added

Thanks for your work on this, Boone. On the homepage, can you regularize the spacing between the icon and the word People? Annotated screenshot attached

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Updated by Chris Stein about 10 years ago

Assignee changed from Chris Stein to Boone Gorges

Looks Good Boone.

On my Mac in Chrome I'm finding that the third column, recent blog posts, is breaking down to the next line. I think it has something to do with Chrome doing sub-pixel rendering or something. I found that when I looked at what chrome saw for the box model on the middle #box2 column instead of
border (left/right) 1px
padding (left/right) 10px
width 278px

the numbers were
border (left/right) 1.11px
padding (left/right) 10px
width 277.986px

If you decrease the width of #box2 to 277 instead of 278px then the problem is solved.

I don't have time to create a ticket but we might think about moving these widths to percentage-based and using the border-box box model in future repsonsive mods.

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