[wp-hackers] Semantics of plugin name

[Shea Bunge]

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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