[wp-hackers] Custom Post Types and pending incompatibilities

[Tobias Bergius]

Well, the best practice for plugin and theme developers is to use a
unique namespace. Wordpress core post types could then be without a
specific namespace.

Cf. post type "event" and post type "mysite_event".



2010/7/12 Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>:
> Any suggestion on how to avoid a situation of having a core update that adds a new post type keep from breaking any sites, themes and plugins that happen to use the same obvious name?
>
> Maybe the answer is, "Let it happen."  Okay if so, just thinking it would be nice for it to be explicit as opposed to by happenstance.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Jul 11, 2010, at 7:16 PM, scribu wrote:
>
>> Furthermore, since 'post' and 'page' aren't going anywhere, if the core team
>> were to add a post type for events, calling it 'wp_event' would just be
>> confusing.
>>
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