It's spelt WordPress. See the difference from Word(p)ress?
Believe it or not, I typed in the title of this post into Google, and there wasn't a single post on the first page of results that was just about spelling WordPress correctly.
The WordPress team has spent an incredible amount of time coming up with logo styling and use (here), and I see so many variations of the WordPress logo I can't imaging trying to police the problem. But when I am reading around the net, reading posts, articles, blogs, whatever, and people spell WordPress as Word(p)ress, I just want to scream. Especially by people who know it's spelt WordPress. Not some variation.
Why is this important? Well, it's not really, but it's like spelling my name, which is Thom, not Tom. Even people who have known me for many years write my name as Tom. Thom is my name. Thom is my brand.
When you spell WordPress as Word(p)ress, it loses something, like it's a fake name, like you don't really know what WordPress is.
So here it is. The one post I hope makes it to the top of the search pages, so every knows how it's spelt. Now I need to write a bot to go out on the web and correct all the mistakes.
By the way, the WordPress system automatically corrects the spelling of WordPress. Read more here.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
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Perhaps you could help us out in politely enforcing the WordPress trademark as well :) http://www.wptavern.com/friendly-reminder-about-the-wordpress-domain-trademark
ReplyDeleteYou're asking if I would write an article similar to this one only about the proper use of the domain name right? Be glad too.
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