What the heck is going on with WordPress?

This is a repost promoting content originally published elsewhere. See more things Dan's reposted.

Let’s play a little game. 😉

Look at the following list of words and try to find the intruder:

  • wp-activate.php
  • wp-admin
  • wp-blog-header.php
  • wp_commentmeta
  • wp_comments
  • wp-comments-post.php
  • wp-config-sample.php
  • wp-content
  • wp-cron.php
  • wp engine
  • wp-includes
  • wp_jetpack_sync_queue
  • wp_links
  • wp-links-opml.php
  • wp-load.php
  • wp-login.php
  • wp-mail.php
  • wp_options
  • wp_postmeta
  • wp_posts
  • wp-settings.php
  • wp-signup.php
  • wp_term_relationships
  • wp_term_taxonomy
  • wp_termmeta
  • wp_terms
  • wp-trackback.php
  • wp_usermeta
  • wp_users

What are these words?

Well, all the ones that contain an underscore _ are names of the WordPress core database tables. All the ones that contain a dash - are WordPress core file or folder names. The one with a space is a company name…

A smart (if slightly tongue-in-cheek) observation by my colleague Paolo, there. The rest of his article’s cleverer and worth-reading if you’re following the WordPress Drama (but it’s pretty long!).

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