[wp-docs] WordPress Terminology

Craig Hartel craig at nuclearmoose.com
Sat Mar 12 22:25:55 GMT 2005


Michael D.Adams wrote:
> Moving this from the 'Adding Administration Menus' thread to a new one.
> 
> See http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MDAWaffe/WordPress_Terminology
> 
> To answer Lorelle's question: it's not meant to be documentation at 
> all.  This page is meant as a Sandbox for people to make suggestions 
> regarding consistent nomenclature.
> 
> And Kaf's: the Glossary is the natural choice.  My point is that I don't 
> believe there exists consistent WP specific terms yet.  That user page 
> of mine can be scrapped after terms are decided.
> 
> Perhaps this is too anal though?  Should things be more freeform/organic?
> 
> Michael
> 

I think that trying to pin down WP isms is a good idea. It will help in 
documentation, and it will help in the support forums. I can see developers of 
plugins and such benefiting from it as well.

Craig.


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