- Admin Area: The administrative area of a WordPress website. Usually it can be accessed by visiting the wp-admin directory in your web browser. Example: http://www.example.com/wp-admin/
- Admin Bar: A floating bar that contains useful administration screen links such as add a new post, see pending comments, edit your profile etc.
- Blog: regularly updated website or web page, typically run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.
- Content Management System (CMS): A software that facilitates creating, editing, organizing, and publishing content.
- CSS: CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to define visual appearance and formatting of HTML documents.
- Database: A database is a structured organized set of data. In computing terminology a database refers to a software used to store and organize data.
- Dedicated Hosting: A term used to describe web hosting packages that provide a dedicated server with dedicated resources to a single client.
- Default Theme: WordPress comes with a default theme to display the front-end of the website. This is the first theme that you see when you first install WordPress. The user can then replace it with any other WordPress theme.
- DNS: DNS or Domain Name System is a system that points a domain name to physical IP address.
- Domain Name: A name used to identify a website on the internet.
- Featured Image: A Featured Image is a representative image for posts, pages, or custom post types. It is sometimes referred to as a post thumbnail.
- GPL: General Public License, sometimes also called GNU GPL, is the most commonly used free software license. This license allows software to be freely used, modified, and redistributed by anyone.
- Home Page: The term home or home page is used in web development to refer to the the main page of a web site.
- MySQL: A database management system that is used by WordPress to store and retrieve all your blog information.
- Navigation Menus: Navigation Menus, or simply Menus, are a WordPress theme feature which allows users to create navigation menus by using built-in Menu Editor located in WordPress admin area under Appearance » Menus.
- Open Source: Open source is a term used to describe computer programs with their source code available for everyone to study. WordPress is an open source software and any one can use
- Permalinks: Permalinks are the permanent URLs of your individual blog post or page on your WordPress site. Permalinks are also referred to as pretty links. By default, WordPress URLs use the query string format which look something like this:http://www.example.com/?
- PHP: A programming and scripting language to create dynamic interactive websites. (WordPress is written using PHP as the scripting language).
- Plug in: A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites.
- Post Slug: The post slug is the user friendly and URL valid name of a post. Most common usage of this feature is to create a permalink for each post. WordPress automatically generates post slugs from a post’s title.
- Profile: Users on a WordPress powered website can edit their profiles from the WordPress admin area. Several preferences can be set here including the admin panel color scheme
- Responsive Theme: Responsive Themes follow the responsive web design approach which aims to create websites that offer optimal user experience across various devices and screen resolutions including desktop computers, tablets such as iPad, smartphones and other mobile dev
- Shared Hosting: A term used for web hosting service plans where multiple websites share the resources of a large web server.
- Shortcodes: Shortcodes in WordPress are little bits of code that allow you to do various things with little effort.
- Static Home Page: A Static Home Page is the first page that someone will see when they type in your domain name as long as you set one. A WordPress website can have a dynamic blog-like front page, or a static front page which is used to show customized content.
- Theme: In WordPress, a theme is a collection of templates and stylesheets used to define the appearance and display of a WordPress powered website.
- Theme Option: Theme options is a custom admin page which comes with some WordPress themes. It allows users to change theme settings without modifying theme files or touching any code.
- Trash: Trash in WordPress is like the Recycle Bin on your PC or Trash in your Macintosh computer.
- Widgets: A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. They add content and features to your Sidebars and Footers.
- WordPress: A free open source blogging tool and content management system.