[theme-reviewers] "WordPress" spelling guidelines

Chip Bennett chip at chipbennett.net
Thu Dec 12 19:46:49 UTC 2013


My personal thought is that it's something so low down on the priority list
that if the spelling/capitalization of "WordPress" in Theme text strings is
something that we're investing very much time in, we might want to consider
our focus.

*Takes off personal-thought hat*

I would think that this could be something easily tested/flagged by Theme
Check. It's a text string. I'm sure some RegEx guru could come up with a
rule to test for the major derivations of "WordPress". (There's probably
already one in capital_P_dangit().)

On a related note: the whole "Proudly powered by WordPress" footer credit
thing is another good argument for standard template hooks. If Themes
implemented standard template hooks, including one for footer credit text,
then core could just add a filter callback to add "Proudly powered by
WordPress", and Themes wouldn't need to bother with it at all.

*Stops eating the pie in the sky; it's full of carbs anyway*


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:

> Thanks everyone.
>
> These were all examples of reviews of already approved themes (by proven
> authors I would say, not pointing fingers), I was curious how many bad
> examples are there in the repository already.
>
> If it's considered vital (eventually) a quick search could probably be ran
> and theme authors notified, as the security searches for plugins happen.
> I'm not sure how important it is really, is it possible (Otto's territory)
> and how many authors would update their themes, but just a shot in the dark.
>
>
> Mario Peshev
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>
>> Direct link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#WordPress_Trademark
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Edward Caissie <
>> edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> _capital_P_dangit() really should be all you need (*grin*) ... although
>>> I may accept all lowercase in some rare user-case scenarios, just can't
>>> think of any.
>>>
>>> Edward Caissie
>>> aka Cais.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Tobias, for some reason my search found nothing there - works
>>>> for me. :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mario Peshev
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tobias Kerst <tobscore at tobscore.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hello Mario,
>>>>>
>>>>> 'Themes must spell "WordPress" correctly in all public facing text:
>>>>> all one word, with both an uppercase W and P.'
>>>>> Quoted from this page http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>
>>>>> Tobias Kerst
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12.12.2013 16:41, Mario Peshev wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't find any guidelines related to the proper spelling of
>>>>> WordPress in texts.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Do we have a general rule of thumb for texts (header, footer, theme
>>>>> options, theme description) that could lead to rejection for (I'm so sorry
>>>>> for what I'm about to type) "Wordpress" or "wordpress" words used and
>>>>> written this way?
>>>>>
>>>>>  It bothers me a lot, but I'm not sure if that's a "recommended" or
>>>>> "required" fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mario Peshev
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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