# Fixing Wordpress annoyances: welcome box, lowercase "p," please, & syntax highlighting

**URL:** <https://cog.discourse.group/t/fixing-wordpress-annoyances-welcome-box-lowercase-p-please-syntax-highlighting/1843>\
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**Created:** [February 13, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/fixing-wordpress-annoyances-welcome-box-lowercase-p-please-syntax-highlighting/1843 "2021-02-13T23:44:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigDinoBlog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/bigdinoblog/32/417_2.png) [@BigDinoBlog](https://cog.discourse.group/u/BigDinoBlog)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/fixing-wordpress-annoyances-welcome-box-lowercase-p-please-syntax-highlighting/1843/1 "2021-02-13T23:44:24Z")

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> So, hey, it turns out that while the grass is indeed a little bit greener over here on this side of the blogging fence, Wordpress still does a couple of things I don’t like and that need correcting. This gives me an opportunity to do that most overdone of blog posts—the “here’s how to add $THING to Wordpress!” post.
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> There are two problems we’re going to fix: the first is Automattic’s decision to make “Wordpress” (without camel-case) always render as “WordPress” (with camel-case) no matter how the author writes the word. We’re going to undo this unwanted trademark enforcement via a must-use plugin.
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> The second problem we’re going to fix is the block editor’s “Welcome Guide” popover, and its insistence at re-appearing even after being dismissed. The damn thing comes back every time I create a new post in a new browser window—I assume because for whatever reason its dismissal is recorded not in an actual site preference, but in a cookie or something. So we’re going to banish it permanently via another must-use plugin.
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> And then, since we’re already going to make a couple of must-use plugins, we’ll make one more—this one will add PrismJS-based syntax highlighting to Wordpress. Which I will be typing with a lowercase “p.”

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