[wp-docs] FLAGGED FROM FORUMS

[Chris Waigl]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:00:13 -0700, Craig Hartel <craig at nuclearmoose.com> wrote:
> Matthew Mullenweg wrote:
> > The whole idea of the plugin system is that people *should not* be
> > making modifications to the core files. Everything you need to do should
> > be in a plugin, my-hacks, or a template.
> >
> 
> Sure, I agree with the plugin stuff, but I, and many others, change a lot of the
> "chatty" stuff that isn't changed in any other way than manually. For example,
> the three default values for comments at the end of a post are '0 Comments', '1
> Comment' and '# Comments' (or whatever) and I change that to 'Add your
> comments', 'One comment so far' and '# Comments so far'.
> 
> To my knowledge, there's no other way to change this without "hacking" core
> files. Have I been missing something all this time?

Er, Craig, these are changed in your templates. No core file hacking involved. 

The only thing I've seen where half-newbies are tempted to have a go
at the code is about the allowed html in comments. Maybe something
should be changed about this.

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Chris Waigl 
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