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PHP AND WORDPRESS
What is: Parent Theme
A parent theme in WordPress is a theme that is declared parent by a another theme, child theme. This feature in WordPress allows theme designers and developers to take advantage of a larger and robust WordPress themes and make modifications…
What is: Post Status
Post status allows users to set a workflow status for a post in WordPress. There are 8 default statuses that WordPress uses. They are published, future, draft, pending, trash, auto-draft, and inherit. A post may also have a…
What is: Pingback
Pingback allows you to notify other bloggers that you have linked to their article on your website. Although there are some minor technical differences, a trackback is basically the same things as a pingback. If the other blogger or author…
What is: Post Formats
Post formats is an optional value added to WordPress posts which allows theme developers to define visual representation of a post. Theme developers can create themes with support for post formats. A number of post formats are available,…
What is: Page
A page in WordPress usually refers to the page post type. It is one of the default pre-defined WordPress post types. WordPress started out as simple blogging tool which allowed users to write posts. In the year 2005, Pages were introduced…
What is: PHP
PHP is a programming and scripting language to create dynamic interactive websites. WordPress is written using PHP as the scripting language. Just like WordPress, PHP is also an Open Source. PHP is a server side programming language. When…
What is: 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, study, change and redistribute its source code. The open source…
What is: Nonce
Nonce is a number or key used once. WordPress uses Nonces to protect URLs and forms from getting misused by malicious hack attempts. For example, on the comment moderation screen when you trash or delete a comment, WordPress adds a nonce…
What is: Media Settings
The Media Settings is a sub panel located under Settings » Media. An administrator can define settings for WordPress media uploads in this sub panel. The first option on this page is for image sizes. When a user uploads an image, WordPress…
What is: Media
Media is a tab in your WordPress admin sidebar which is used to manage user uploads (images, audio, video, and other files). Under the Media menu, there are two screens. The first screen Library lists all the files in the media library.…
