1. Avatar
An avatar is a graphic image or picture that represents a
user.
2. Blog
A blog, or weblog, is an online journal, diary, or serial
published by a person or group of people.
Blogs are typically used by individuals or peer groups, but
are occasionally used by companies or organizations as well. In the corporate
arena, the only adopters of the blog format so far have tended to be design
firms, web media companies, and other “bleeding edge” tech firms.
Blogs often contain public as well as private content.
Depending on the functionality of the CMS software that is used, some authors
may restrict access — through the use of accounts or passwords — to content
that is too personal to be published publicly.
3. Blogging
Blogging is the act of writing in one’s blog. To blog
something is to write about something in one’s blog. This sometimes involves
linking to something the author finds interesting on the internet.
4. Blogosphere
The blogosphere is the subset of internet web sites which
are, or relate to, blogs.
5. Blogroll
A blogroll is a list of links to various blogs or news
sites. Often a blogroll is “rolled” by a service which tracks updates (using
feeds) to each site in the list, and provides the list in a form which
aggregates update information.
6. Category
Each post in WordPress is filed under a category. Thoughtful
categorization allows posts to be grouped with others of similar content and aids
in the navigation of a site. Please note, the post category should not
be confused with the Link Categories used to classify and manage Links.
7. Comments
Comments are a feature of blogs which allow readers to
respond to posts. Typically readers simply provide their own thoughts regarding
the content of the post, but users may also provide links to other resources,
generate discussion, or simply compliment the author for a well-written post.
You can control and regulate comments by filters for
language and content. Comments can be queued for approval before they are
visible on the web site. This is useful in dealing with comment spam.
8. Content
Content consists of text, images, or other information
shared in posts. This is separate from the structural design of a web site,
which provides a framework into which the content is inserted, and the
presentation of a site, which involves graphic design. A Content Management
System changes and updates content, rather than the structural or graphic
design of a web site.
9. Content
Management System
A Content Management System, or CMS, is software for
facilitating the maintenance of content, but not design, on a web site. A
blogging tool is an example of a Content Management System.
10. cPanel
cPanel is a popular web-based administration tool that many
hosting providers provide to allow users to configure their own accounts using
an easy-to-use interface.
11. CSS
CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a W3C open standards
programming language for specifying how a web page is presented. It allows web
site designers to create formatting and layout for a web site independently of
its content.
12. Default
theme
Every installation of WordPress has a default theme. The
default theme is sometimes called the fallback theme, because if the active
theme is for some reason lost or deleted, WordPress will fallback to using the
default theme.
Up to Version 2.9.2 the default theme was the WordPress
Default theme (sometimes call Kubrick) and was housed in the wp-content/themes/default
folder. Starting with Version 3.0, the Twenty Ten theme became the default (and
fallback) theme.
13. Draft
The draft post status is for WordPress posts which are
saved, but as yet unpublished. A draft post can only be edited through the
Administration Panel, Write Post SubPanel by users of equal or greater User
Level than the post’s author.
14. Feed
A feed is a function of special software that allows
“Feedreaders” to access a site automatically looking for new content and then
posting the information about new content and updates to another site. This
provides a way for users to keep up with the latest and hottest information
posted on different blogging sites. Some Feeds include RSS (alternately defined
as “Rich Site Summary” or “Really Simple Syndication”), Atom or RDF files. Dave
Shea, author of the web design weblog Mezzoblue has written a comprehensive
summary of feeds. Feeds generally are based on XML technology.
15. FTP
FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is rather predictably, a
client-server protocol for transferring files. It is one way to download files,
and the most common way to upload files to a server.
An FTP client is a program which can download files
from, or upload files to, an FTP server.
You may need to use an FTP client to upload your WordPress
files to your web server, particularly if you use a hosting provider.
16. Gallery
As defined by Andy Skelton, Gallery, introduced with
WordPress 2.5, is specifically an exposition of images attached to a post. In
that same vein, an upload is “attached to a post” when you upload it while
editing a post.
In the uploader there is a “Gallery” tab that shows all the
uploads attached to the post you are editing. When you have more than one attachment
in a post, you should see at the bottom of the Gallery tab a button marked
“Insert gallery into post”. That button inserts a shortcode into the post.
WordPress replaces that shortcode with an exposition of all images attached to
that post. Non-image file types are excluded from the gallery.
Note: If you don’t see the “Insert galley into post” button,
it may be because you have not attached two images to the post.
The pretty URLs for attachments are made only after you have
published the post and should be composed as the post permalink plus the
attachment slug.
17. Gravatar
A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar (a graphic image
or picture that represents a user). Typically a user’s gravatar is associated
with their email address, and using a service such as Gravatar.com,
a blog owner to can configure their blog so that a user’s gravatar is displayed
along with their comment.
18. Hosting
provider
A hosting provider is a company or organization which
provides, usually for a fee, infrastructure for making information accessible
via the web. This involves the use of a web server (including web server
software such as Apache), and may involve one or more related technologies,
such as FTP, PHP, MySQL, and operating system software such as Linux or Unix.
19. HTML
HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the W3C standard
language with which all web pages are built. It is the predecessor to XHTML,
but HTML is often still used to describe either one. It is often used in
conjunction with CSS and/or JavaScript.
WordPress strives to conform to the XHTML standard.
20. IP
address
An IP address is a unique number (e.g. 70.84.29.148)
assigned to a computer (or other internet-capable information appliance, such
as a network printer) to enable it to communicate with other devices using the Internet
Protocol. It is a computer’s identity on the internet, and every computer
connected to the internet is assigned at least one — although the methods of
assigning these addresses, and the permanence and duration of their assignment,
differ according to the use of the computer and the circumstances of its
internet use.
Every web server is assigned an IP address as well, but
often times hosting providers will assign multiple IP addresses to one
computer, in the event that multiple web sites reside on the same physical
server. This is the case with most inexpensive ‘managed’ or ‘group’ hosting
packages.
Domain names were created to provide an easier means of
accessing internet resources than IP addresses, which are cumbersome to type
and difficult to remember. Every domain name has at least one corresponding IP
address, but only a small number of IP addresses have a domain name associated
with them, since only computers that are web servers require domain names. The
Domain Name System (DNS) is what maps Domain names to IP addresses.
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