[wp-docs] WordPress Terminology

[Ryan Boren]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 15:25 -0700, Craig Hartel wrote:
> 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.

Indeed.

http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html
http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/frontmatter.html