WordPress bans developers from using WP in plugin names

Plugin names that use WP are being rejected by the WordPress Plugin Review Team. WordPress Foundation is claiming Automattic holds the trademark for WP.

Joe Youngblood, a digital marketer from Dallas, TX, had an unpleasant surprise on Friday the 13th. He was horrified after submitting a new WordPress plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory and it was auto-rejected. The rejection message stated that the plugin could not include WP in the name.

In correspondence with the WordPress Plugin Review team, a team member told Youngblood that they were explicitly instructed to prohibit the…


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