Word press is a best Open Source CMS which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind
of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single penny for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL
(which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.

The word press is safe to operate but still it is suggested to keep updating with the latest version of
Wordpress to avoid hacking.

You can use WordPress for e-commerce sites, membership sites, photo galleries and any other type of site
you can think of. The web site is created using the same html code as any other site so there are no
limitations there either.

Wordpress was originally used as blogging software though it has since become popular for website also. It is
not necessary to have a blog to use wordpress. Still having blog is commendable as it will help in search
engine optimization.

It is one of the benefit of using wordpress, it has inbuilt SEO search engine. Also, you can have an additional
plug-in in wordpress to help with SEO and rank on a popular search engine like Google.

There are two types of hooks 1) Action hooks 2) Filter hooks

Hooks allow user to create WordPress theme or plug-in with short code without changing the original files.
Action hooks allow you to insert an additional code from an outside resource, whereas, Filter hooks will only
allow you to add a content or text at the end of the post.

Custom field is a meta-data that allows you to store arbitrary information to the wordpress post. Through

custom field extra information can be added to the post.

Few positive aspects of wordpress are

• Easy installation and upgrade
• In-built SEO engine
• Easy theme system
• Flexibility
• Multilingual- available in more than 70 languages
• Own data- no unwanted advert on your website
• Flexibility and Easy publishing option

• Create a unique name
• Create the plugin’s folder
• Create a sub-folder for PHP files, translations and assets
• Create the main plug-in file and fill in header information
• Create activation and de-activation functions
• Create an uninstall script
• Create a readme.txt file
• To detect paths to plug-in file use proper constants and functions

By default, wp_ is the prefix for wordpress.

MySQL is widely available database server and is extremely fast. It is an open source and it is available at
no cost also it is supported by many low-cost Linux hosts so its easy for anyone to host their website.

Yes, it is possible to rename the WordPress folder. If WordPress is already installed you have to login to
the weblog as the administrator and then change the settings

Wordpress address (URI) :

Blog address( URI) :

After making the changes, you can rename the folder or directory with the WordPress file in it.

There are about 11 tables in WordPress by default. Note: With succeeding releases of Wordpress this
number will change. You need to check phpMyAdmin to determine the number of tables in a vanilla
version of latest Wordpress installation.

To display post WordPress use PHP code, this code is known as loop.

If you go on dashboard under options-discussion there is a comment “ Allow people to post comment” try
unchecking the comment.

• Install security plug-ins like WP security
• Re-install the latest version of WordPress
• Check your themes and plug-ins are up to date

In WordPress template tags is a code that instructs WordPress to “do” or “get” something.

Yes, WordPress have cookies and WordPress uses cookies for verification of users while logged in.

You can’t see your plug-in menu when the blog is hosted on free wordpress.com as you cannot add plug-in
there. Also, if you do not have an account of an administrator level on your WordPress is not possible to
see plugin.

This would likely happen when you have pasted a code from a website with wrong formats, also when you
have pasted a code in a wrong location. It may also happen when your IP is banned

Some Wordpress users wants their WordPress installation to be more than a blog site. To give their page a
look more like a real website page some users use static front page.

To create a contact form in WordPress you can use plug-in like Gravity forms or also you can use a free
plug-in contact form 7.

While using widget you have to ensure whether your theme supports the widget and if it does then it must
show the sidebar. If in any case if it happens that you don’t see the sidebar then it might be missing the
“function.php” file or file similar to that. This can also happen if you have forgot to save the changes in the
widget or refreshing the older display of the page.

No, there is no limitation for using WordPress. WordPress can be used for innumerable purpose
membership site, e-commerce site, photo-gallery and many more.

Most of the things are similar in both except the choices of themes and the usage of plugins.

Wordpress.com is considered more secure than wordpress.org because they limit the themes and also does
not allow installing plugin’s. However the security is more dependable on how the hosting company is
hosting your website(wordpress.org) & also what are the steps they are taking to prevent the security
problems.

No, de-activated plugins cannot slow down the WordPress site. Wordpress only loads the active plugins
and ignores everything else.

We cannot recommend WordPress on following situation:

• If client is working on non-CMS base project
• If site wants complex or innovative e-commerce
• In case of enterprise intranet solution
• Sites requiring custom scripting solutions.

Theme selection differs according to the requirement, but an ideal theme would be something that would
not restrict to use the number of pages, plugins or static homepage.

Custom theme allows for SEO search, but with a SEO plugin available it would not make much difference
to normal theme. One benefit using the Custom theme is that it allows to make the changes without going
much into the coding part.

To create a static page in wordpress, in the page section you have to upload a php files to the server in the
theme folder, and then select that as your template. This allows you to add any page and look that you
wanted for your blog and it will remain static.

Wordpress is no doubt a good CMS, but Drupal and Joomla are among the best CMS you can work with.

Keeping all the limitations in mind, WPML would be the best multi-lingual plugin for wordpress .

It depends on the type of the site or project, but yes one can update their own content on the site.

Meta-tags are keywords and description used to display website or page information.

There is no specific preference for plugin development; it depends on what type of plugin’s one has to
develop. Though few recommend custom post type, as it has few benefits comparison to custom database
table.

Yes, you can host using Amazon web services.

You can use organize series plugin to write series in wordpress.

The best reason not to hack the core files is that whatever you might be doing has to be reworked as a patch.

The features of Wordpress are:

User Management

Media Management

Theme System

Extend with Plugins

Search Engine Optimized

Multilingual

Importers

The disadvantages of Wordpress are:

• Using several plugins can make website heavy to load and run.
• PHP knowledge is required to do modification or changes in the wordpress website.
• Sometimes software needs to be updated to keep the wordpress up to date with the current browsers and
• mobile devices. Updating of wordpress version leads to loss of data so it requires the backup copy ofwebsite.
• Modifying and formatting the graphic images and tables is difficult.

The different types of gadgets present in the Wordpress Dashboard are:

• Dashboard Menu
• Screen Options
• Welcome
• Quick Draft
• Wordpress News
• Activity
• At a Glance

The Quick Draft is a mini post editor allows writing, saving and publishing post from admin dashboard. It
includes the title for the draft, some notes about your draft and save it as a Draft.

The WordPress News widget displays the latest news such as latest software version, updates, alerts, news
regarding the software etc from the official WordPress blog.

This section gives overview of your blog's posts, number of published posts and pages, number of
comments. When you click on these links, you will be taken to the respective screen. It displays the current
version of running Wordpress along with currently running theme on the site.

The Activity widget includes latest comments on your blog, recent posts and recently published posts. It
allows you to unapproved or approve the comment, reply to the comment, editing the comment or you can
delete the comment or move it to spam.

Wordpress general setting is used to set the basic configuration settings for your site.

The writing settings controls Wordpress writing experience and provides options for customizing
Wordpress site. These settings control WordPress's features in the adding and editing posts, Pages, and
Post Types, as well as the optional functions like Remote Publishing, Post via email, and Update Services.

This option uses email address to create post for you and publishes posts on your blog by email. To use
this, you'll need to set up a secret email account with a POP3 access, and any mail received at this address
will be posted.

Reading Setting is used to set the content related to the front page. Here you can set the number of post to
be displayed on the main page.

The user can view the number of posts when they download one of the site feeds. By default, it is set as 10.

It Discourage search engines from indexing this site, your site will be ignored by the search engine.

Wordpress discussion setting can be defined as the interaction between the blogger and your visitors. These
settings are done by the admin to have a control over the posts/pages that come in through users.

It is used to set the height and widths for the images which you're going to use into your website.

Permalink is a permanent link to a particular blog post or category. It allows setting the default permalink
structure. These settings are used to add permalinks to your posts in Wordpress.

Plugin allows easily modifying, customizing or enhancing wordpress blog or post. The Wordpress Plugin
is software that can be uploaded to expand the functionality of the site. They add services or features to
wordpress blog.

Category is used to indicate sections of your site and group related posts. It sorts the group content into
different sections. It is a very convenient way to organize the posts.

Posts are also known as articles and sometimes referred as blogs or blog posts. These are used to
popularize your blogs.

Preview Post is to view the post before it is published to the user. It's safer to preview your post and verify
how your post looks on website.

Publish is used to make the post available to all the users wherein every user can view that particular post.

Media files can be inserted to your Pages or Posts from libraries, from local storage or from URLs.

Pages are static content and often do not change its displayed information.

WYSIWYG Editor is similar to a word processor interface where we can edit the contents of the article.

Page attributes module allows you to select parents for your particular page. You can also set order of the
pages.

Tag is small information attached to main content or post for the purpose of identification. It tells the
visitors what actually the post is about. If the tag is mentioned properly then it helps to find the content
very easily.

It is used to specify the tags URL.

Link is a connection from one resource to another. Adding links to your pages or blog posts helps you to
connect to other pages.

Adding comments allows your visitors to have a discussion with you. Comments are approved by the
admin and then posted to be discussed further.