[wp-hackers] get_settings or get_option ?

[Mark Jaquith]

On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Charles wrote:

> In this case "deprecated" just means that the developer  
> documentation steers developers toward one or the other, reducing  
> confusion all around.

Would be good to reduce confusion.  Another bag of worms that is  
confusing as heck is get_bloginfo().  There's also this little bit of  
insanity in get_bloginfo() that has been driving me nuts for years:

> function get_bloginfo($show='') {
>
> 	switch($show) {
> 		case 'url' :
> 		case 'home' :
> 		case 'siteurl' :
> 			$output = get_settings('home');
> 			break;
> 		case 'wpurl' :
> 			$output = get_settings('siteurl');

get_bloginfo('siteurl') == get_option('home')    ?!

That's seriously dysfunctional... especially considering how many  
plugin authors don't know the difference and write plugins that  
assume that your WP install URL and blog URL are the same.

--
Mark Jaquith
http://txfx.net/