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Justin Tadlock
Personal blog · justintadlock.comwebwriting
Justin Tadlock's personal blog at justintadlock.com covers web and writing. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Lowercase p, dangit”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Justin Tadlock's WordPress posts, including one on the lowercase 'WordPress' spelling and one on keeping custom themes and plugins under version control with Git or SVN. The comments only cite or link them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I am also a writer. A front-end developer. A gardener. A small-town Alabama kid just trying to figure out whatever it is that that folks are supposed to figure out on this journey. Welcome to my little home on the
Most-linked posts?
- Lowercase p, dangit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-08
What Hacker News says?
Yes, and I think it's arrogance on the part of Wordpress (there I did it) folks to insist that everyone capitalize it in the prescribed manner. Especially since they weren't consistent from the get-go. They even went so far as to make Wordpress (trolol) itself filter content to be capitalized if someone tries using the lower case p. http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/08/lowercase-p-dan...
Comment linking /archives/2010/07/08/lowercase-p-dangit
on “TOML, Tom's Own Markup Language”Submitted Forty-One as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot really. If you're not running a test site, put the theme and custom plugins inside another folder and commit that to Git or SVN. If you are running a test site, oommit the wp-content folder, with the uploads directory and any third party code set as ignored. And the way I suggest is also what a lot of WordPress experts suggest, as seen here: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2013/09/14/why-custom-post... http://…
Comment linking /archives/2013/09/14/why-custom-post-types-belong-in-plugins
on “Popular WordPress plugin comes with a backdoor, steals site admin credentials”Submitted Lowercase p, dangit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The life-changing magic of sorting books as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lowercase P, Dangit (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Years of Reading as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from WordPress to a custom CMS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ThemeForest Experiment: One Year Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussion