[wp-docs] Redundancy in article titles

Carthik Sharma carthik at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 15:08:54 GMT 2007


Hi all,

On 4/30/07, Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/30/07, Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I noticed a lot of articles in the Codex have their titles starting
> > with "WordPress". For example, "WordPress Coding Standards".
> >
> > I know this is really nitpicky, but does anybody else think this is
> > slightly redundant? I mean, codex.wordpress.org already has WordPress
> > in the URL, and not to mention the large WordPress logo at the top of
> > the Codex (unless you use the monobook theme like me because the edit
> > links don't show up for you). Isn't that enough WordPress?
> >
> > I suggest we simply drop "WordPress" from the titles, e.g. in the case
> > of "WordPress Coding Standards", rename to "Coding Standards".
> Strange, I remember putting it in the Codex New Page Creation
> Guidelines page under the "title" section that the word "WordPress"
> should not be used in titles as it is redundant - there has been a
> discussion about this before, back when we were building the Codex. I
> can't find it now - must have been edited out or something.
>

I found the thread:
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/docs/2004-December/001076.html

:) History repeats itself

Carthik.
> Yes, this is a no-brainer as far as I am concerned- title should not
> have "WordPress" in them.
>
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