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Otto42 on July 15, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Would WordPress Sue The Maker Of Thesis WordPress ...

In the case of Excel macros, Microsoft have provided a public API within which to create those programs.

This is not the case for WordPress themes. Themes use the internal structures of WordPress to do their work, not the public APIs that WordPress provides.

stoney on July 15, 2010 [–]

So what defines a public API? The Wordpress internals are all public so why doesn't that count as an API?

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