WordPress Basics

WordPress is a content management system. This means it is designed to handle and organize lots of different pieces of content. For the most part, this means blog posts. 35.7% of websites are using WordPress in 2020. (https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management) As their go-to platform. Including top brands like: - BBC - Sony Music - Disney - TechCrunch - Mozilla - Microsoft - Playstation - And many more.

Glossary TOPICS - Absolute Path (https://wordpress.org/support/article/glossary/#absolute-path) - Absolute URI (https://wordpress.org/support/article/glossary/#absolute-uri) - Action (https://wordpress.org/support/article/glossary/#action) - Admin Bar (https://wordpress.org/support/article/glossary/#admin-bar) - Ajax (https://wordpress.org/support/article/glossary/#ajax) - Apache (https://wordpress.org/support/article/glossary/#apache) - API (https://wordpress.org/support/a...

This Settings General Screen is the default Screen in the Settings Administration Screen (https://wordpress.org/support/article/administration-screens/#settings-configuration-settings) and controls some of the most basic configuration settings for your site: your site’s title and location, who may register an account at your site, and how dates and times are calculated and displayed. (https://i2.wp.com/wp-helphub.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/760px-options-general.png) General Settings ...

Let’s take a step-by-step tour through your WordPress site and see how the different functions work and how to make your new site your own. During the first part of this tutorial, please don’t change anything within the program unless it is part of the tutorial. After following these steps, you’ll soon be changing everything. Log In (https://i1.wp.com/local.wordpress.test/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/login_form.png) Begin by logging into the administration area, or the back end (https://wo...

WordPress uses a concept of Roles (https://wordpress.org/support/article/roles-and-capabilities/#roles), designed to give the site (https://wordpress.org/support/article/glossary/#site) owner the ability to control what users can and cannot do within the site. A site owner can manage the user access to such tasks as writing and editing posts (https://wordpress.org/support/article/writing-posts/), creating Pages (https://wordpress.org/support/article/pages/), creating categories (https://codex.wo...

Content visibility is about controlling who can see your blog content. WordPress allows you to control the visibility of your posts and Pages (https://wordpress.org/support/article/pages/) on an individual basis. By default, all posts and Pages are visible. There are several ways to set the visibility for your blog content. You can set it on a per post/Page basis for public, private, or Password Protected, or make the entire blog private and Password Protected through the use of WordPress Plugi...

The Posts Screen provides the facility to manage all the Posts in a blog. Via this Screen, Posts can be edited, deleted, and viewed. Filtering, and searching, also makes it easy to quickly find Posts matching certain criteria. A powerful bulk edit feature allows Posts to be edited in bulk (en masse) allowing fields such as Author, Comments Allowed, Status, Pings Allowed, and Sticky to be changed for a whole batch of Posts. It is important to note that Categories and Tags can be ADDED in bulk to...

What is a “blog”? #What is a “blog”? (https://wordpress.org/support/article/introduction-to-blogging/#what-is-a-blog) “Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe websites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog features diary-type commentary and links to articles on other websites, usually presented as a list of entries in reverse chronological order. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a wh...

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual pages and blog posts, as well as your category and tag archives. A permalink is the web address used to link to your content. The URL to each post should be permanent and never change — hence the name permalink. The Settings Permalinks Screen allows you to choose your default permalink structure. You can choose from common settings or create custom URL structures. You must click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen for new set...