I18N: Remove the "Error:" prefix from error messages.

For a number of years, most of the WordPress error messages have been prefixed with "Error:". However, these messages appear in a context where it's already clear an error occurred. Whether it's an error, a warning, or any other classification, that's not so relevant for users. The content of the message is the relevant part. The "Error:" prefix doesn't add great value while it does add unnecessary complexity for the message readability.

Also, revises some of these messages to improve clarity and removes HTML from translatable strings.

Props garrett-eclipse, ramiy, SergeyBiryukov, afercia, sabernhardt, quadthemes, audrasjb. 
See #47003, #43037, #42945, #15887.
Fixes #47656.

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git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@47826 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
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Andrea Fercia
2020-06-16 15:35:13 +00:00
parent 8f065b688d
commit f83c504b88
23 changed files with 74 additions and 74 deletions

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@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ function network_step1( $errors = false ) {
global $is_apache;
if ( defined( 'DO_NOT_UPGRADE_GLOBAL_TABLES' ) ) {
echo '<div class="error"><p><strong>' . __( 'Error:' ) . '</strong> ' . sprintf(
echo '<div class="error"><p>' . sprintf(
/* translators: %s: DO_NOT_UPGRADE_GLOBAL_TABLES */
__( 'The constant %s cannot be defined when creating a network.' ),
'<code>DO_NOT_UPGRADE_GLOBAL_TABLES</code>'
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ function network_step1( $errors = false ) {
$hostname = get_clean_basedomain();
$has_ports = strstr( $hostname, ':' );
if ( ( false !== $has_ports && ! in_array( $has_ports, array( ':80', ':443' ), true ) ) ) {
echo '<div class="error"><p><strong>' . __( 'Error:' ) . '</strong> ' . __( 'You cannot install a network of sites with your server address.' ) . '</p></div>';
echo '<div class="error"><p><strong>' . __( 'You cannot install a network of sites with your server address.' ) . '</p></div>';
echo '<p>' . sprintf(
/* translators: %s: Port number. */
__( 'You cannot use port numbers such as %s.' ),
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ function network_step1( $errors = false ) {
$error_codes = array();
if ( is_wp_error( $errors ) ) {
echo '<div class="error"><p><strong>' . __( 'Error: The network could not be created.' ) . '</strong></p>';
echo '<div class="error"><p><strong>' . __( 'The network could not be created.' ) . '</strong></p>';
foreach ( $errors->get_error_messages() as $error ) {
echo "<p>$error</p>";
}