If you haven’t been following the latest hot debate in the WordPress community, you’re in for some news. If you have been following it, you’re probably in a fiery rage, given up all hope in the “community” aspect of this community project, or are just sitting back laughing at the rest of us.
The issue: Before WordPress 3.0 was released, a small piece of code was added to the WordPress core that changes all instances of “Wordpress” (notice the lowercase “p”) to “WordPress” in areas where content is shown on the site. We’ll get to the details in a bit.
I tried hard to stay out this debate because I’m fairly certain I made a vow to myself to stay out of these types of arguments. But, I’ve got a few opinions on this one that I can’t just keep to myself. And, as someone that is considered a leader within the WordPress community, I feel responsible for communicating with that community on this issue.
On a more serious note, these are not proper:
The issue: Before WordPress 3.0 was released, a small piece of code was added to the WordPress core that changes all instances of “Wordpress” (notice the lowercase “p”) to “WordPress” in areas where content is shown on the site. We’ll get to the details in a bit.
I tried hard to stay out this debate because I’m fairly certain I made a vow to myself to stay out of these types of arguments. But, I’ve got a few opinions on this one that I can’t just keep to myself. And, as someone that is considered a leader within the WordPress community, I feel responsible for communicating with that community on this issue.
It’s spelled “WordPress”
WPCamelCase.com says so, and I’d never question an entire site dedicated to the proper spelling of a single word.On a more serious note, these are not proper:
- Wordpress
- wordPress
- wordpress
- Word Press
- word press
- wordress
- WoRdPrEsS
