{"id":73395,"date":"2012-03-06T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=73395"},"modified":"2012-03-06T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T16:04:44","slug":"mind-your-ps-and-qs-just-say-no-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/mind-your-ps-and-qs-just-say-no-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Your Ps and Qs &#8211; Just Say No to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[73395]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/mind-your-ps-and-qs-just-say-no-to-wordpress\/strict-big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73396\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73396\" title=\"strict-big\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/strict-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"633\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, I\u2019m not advising you to say no to the blogging software WordPress. I\u2019m talking about the spelling of WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>The official spelling of WordPress is just how I\u2019ve spelled it here. You\u2019ll notice the capital \u201cP\u201d in the middle of the word for \u201cPress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the WordPress software will automatically \u201ccorrect\u201d you if you try to spell it with a lower case p. Some people don\u2019t like this. They don\u2019t like the software telling them what they can and can\u2019t write.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Freedom of the &#8220;press&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When this correction first came about with the release of WordPress 3.0, it caused something of little firestorm. There were a number of reasons for people\u2019s dislike. Some said it could even possibly break URLs on some sites. Another reason was that it was added to the core code by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg without any discussion. So while Matt was obviously minding his Ps, it seems he wasn\u2019t minding his Qs quite as well.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of all that, the function still exists. And so if you\u2019d like to mind your own Ps as well as your Qs (WordPress has no problem with Qs, by the way), then one of the methods below will help you reverse this function so that you can write \u201cWordPress\u201d however you like.<\/p>\n\n<h2><strong>Plugin<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/remove-wordpress-to-wordpress-filter\/other_notes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remove WordPress to WordPress filter plugin<\/a> will do the trick for you. Simply upload it, activate it, and you\u2019re set.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Functions File<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Another option is to put the following code into your functions.php file in your theme. <strong>(Appearance &gt; Edit &gt; Theme Functions \u2013 functions.php)<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>remove_filter( 'the_title', 'capital_P_dangit', 11 );\r\nremove_filter( 'the_content', 'capital_P_dangit', 11 );\r\nremove_filter( 'comment_text', 'capital_P_dangit', 31 );<\/pre>\n<p>On a side note, there is debate over the origin of the phrase, \u201cMind your Ps and Qs\u201d (which means \u201cmind your manners\u201d). \u00a0You can read about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mind_your_Ps_and_Qs\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> if you\u2019re interested.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-26302334\/stock-photo-strict-father-punishes-his-son\" target=\"_blank\">Strict father punishes his son<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take the capital P out of WordPress and spell it however you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":73397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-73395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216288,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73395\/revisions\/216288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73395"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=73395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}