Glossarys

WordPress plugin is basically a bit of code that “plugs in” to your self-hosted WordPress site. Or we can say that it is something that adds new functionality to your WordPress site or extends existing functionality on your site. There are ten thousands of WordPress plugins that you can add to your site. Plugins can

Posts status in WordPress can have a number of statuses. The status of a given post settles how WordPress handles that post. For example Public posts viewable by everyone assigned the publish status whereas drafts are allocated the draft status. The status is saved in the post_status field in the wp_posts table. WordPress uses 8 default

WordPress uses MySQL, as an open source database management system to store and retrieve all of the website’s information, everywhere from the content of the posts and pages to the comments, usernames, and passwords of your website. What is MySQL MySQL in WordPress is a central component in the LAMP stack of open source web

A WordPress sidebar is a theme feature, which is basically a vertical column provided by a theme for displaying information other than the main content of the web page. The usage of sidebars changes and it depends on the choices of the theme designer. Sidebars play a vital role in designing the layout of a

WordPress Comments allow the visitor’s of your website to have a discussion with you and each other. When you activate the comment option on your page or post, WordPress inserts several text boxes after your content where the users can submit their comments. Once you approve any comment, it appears underneath your content. It’s up

WordPress Attachment is a file which can be uploaded to a page or post in your site. This could be an image, video or audio clip etc., or it could be a file which has a clickable link that WordPress creates when you upload the file. An attachment is a post type in WordPress. It

WordPress Templates are those files which control how your WordPress site will be displayed on the Web. These files draw information from your WordPress MySQL database and generate the HTML code which is then sent to the web browser. By its powerful theme system, WordPress furthermore allows you to define as few or as many

WordPress Footer refers to the bottom section of a web page in a web design terminology. It contains information like copyrights, links to privacy policy, credits, etc. It may contain codes and scripts that a WordPress theme developer would want to include in the page but after loading the rest of the page content. The

A tag in WordPress is one of the default tools one can use to categorize their WordPress posts. Each post can have multiple tags and visitors can click on any tag to find similar posts that have that same thing. Tags are completely optional, that’s it depends on you whether you want to add WordPress tags

Protecting sites against brute force attacks is one of the fundamental steps of WordPress Security. WordPress security keys and salts offer a solution to improve and harden your site security. WordPress keys and salts play a significant role in securing site cookies and stop hackers from accessing your site. What are security keys? Security keys