[wp-hackers] Semantics of plugin name

[Phillip Lord]

Ah, this is all fine then. I can change the name a bit and no one will
be affected.

Phil

Shea Bunge <info at bungeshea.com> writes:

> Nope. It is built from the plugin name you enter when you submit the plugin to
> the WordPress.org repo, much in the same way a permalink is built from a post
> title in WordPress. After then it can't be changed.
>
>
>> From: phillip.lord at newcastle.ac.uk
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:08:18 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Semantics of plugin name
>> 
>> 
>> Where is the plugin-slug defined, then? It doesn't come from the source?
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> Shea Bunge <info at bungeshea.com> writes:
>> > The plugin name in your readme.txt file can be anything you like. You can
>> > change it as much as you want, but your plugin will still live on the same
>> > page at http://wordpress.org/plugins, will use the same SVN repo, and will
>> > reside in the same folder name on WordPress installations and continue to
>> > recieve auto-updates. This is because it's the plugin slug that matters (
>> > http://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-slug ), not whatever you name the display
>> > name set in readme.txt or as 'Plugin Name:' in your plugin PHP file.
>> >
>> >
>> >> From: phillip.lord at newcastle.ac.uk
>> >> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> >> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:39:03 +0100
>> >> Subject: [wp-hackers] Semantics of plugin name
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> I'm just wondering about the semantics of plugin names for wordpress; in
>> >> particular if I change the capitalisation of the my plugin name, will it
>> >> have any implications for the plugin on http://wordpress.org/plugins?
>> >> 
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