Wordpress

What types of user roles are available in Wordpress?

- Admin - Editor - Author - Contributor - Subscriber

What are some ways to boost the performance of a page?

- Caching - Content Delivery Networks - Compression/Minification

What are some key features to look for in a form plugin?

- Can I set up email confirmations and/or notifications? - Does the plugin integrate spam control?

What two things must be backed up in order to fully backup a wordpress site?

- Database - Files

What options do you have for installing a plugin?

- Direct from wordpress plugin directory. - Uploading a zip file.

What questions should you ask when looking at analytics plugins?

- Does it integrate with a third party service? - Does the plugin honor privacy laws?

What are the two things that must be backed up to backup a wordpress site?

- Files - Themes, plugins, media, etc. - Database - Posts, pages, and site settings.

What are some examples of categories of plugins?

- Forms - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Caching - Backups - Social Media Integration - Analytics - Security

What are your initial thoughts on essential plugins?

- Forms. - Anti-spam. - Security. - Caching. - Analytics. - SEO.

How can you edit the global styling for a website?

- If using a block theme, you'll use the style panel to edit/modify global styles. - If using a classic theme, you'll need to use the customizer.

What sort of things do you find in the toolbar?

- Links to wordpress documentation. - Ability to view site w/ customization toolbar. - Pending updates. - Notifications. - Links to create/publish new content.

What options do you have available for customizing the look and feel of your website (at least in block themes)?

- Navigation - Styles - Pages - Templates - Patterns

What options do you have for major updates to your wordpress site?

- One click updates. - Manual updates (Should only be done if the one click update doesn't work.)

What are some items that ought to be put into a Wordpress checklist?

- Permalink settings. -

What are some great features for posts provided by Wordpress?

- Post scheduling. - Password protecting a post. - More tag.

What ought you to review when examining a plugin?

- Star rating. - Last updated. - # downloads. - Compatibility rating. - Author information & other plugins. - Support forums.

What are the UI elements available in the dashboard?

- Toolbar on top of page. - Main navigation on left hand side. - Main work area.

What considerations will determine the frequency of your backups?

- When you plan to make major updates. - How often you post.

What are the steps involved in a manual update?

1. Replace wordpress files. 1.5 Remove .maintenance file. 2 Update installation (Run migration). 3 Clear your cache.

What does a caching plugin do?

A caching plugin can improve your website's page load speed. It can do so by pre-rendering web pages.

What is the block library?

A library of all blocks that are available on your wordpress installation.

What is the style book?

A means of viewing the impact of styling changes to global styles or block styles.

What does the styles revision feature provide?

A mechanism for reverting your styles back to a previous version.

What is a post format?

A post format is a way of altering the presentation of different types of posts. This helps to make it obvious to the reader what type of post each post is. You can select different post types by choosing a different post type in the "Post Format" drop down when editing a post. Available types are fixed. Themes may or may not support different post types.

What is a block pattern?

A premade design/layout of grouped blocks.

What is a template?

A template is a structure for how a page is displayed.

What is a template part?

A template part is a component of a template (e.g., header, footer, side nav, etc.).

What are widget areas?

Areas where widgets are allowed to be inserted.

What are blocks?

The elements of a web page. Every paragraph, image, or title is a block. Each block comes with its own options for customization.

True or false. Plugins slow down your site.

They can if they don't work well together, but that is generally not the case.

True or false. Styles set for blocks in your style book take precedence over global styles.

True

True or false. Plugins exist to help automate backups.

True.

True or false. Templates for a post or page display your content in a Post Content block.

True.

True or false. You can download different patterns regardless of which theme you choose.

True. Patterns can be downloaded separately from themes.

True or false. Templates are for posting content.

False.

True or false. You can setup your site for automatic updates so that you never have to manually update your site.

False. Minor updates can be setup for automatic updates, but major releases must be manually updated.

What resource can you use to evaluate the performance of a page?

Google PageSpeed. https://pagespeed.web.dev/

What is the difference between a widget and a block?

Before full site editing, widgets were a means of adding custom, dynamic elements to widget areas. These would add dynamic content to all pages that had the widget. However, widgets are becoming obsolete. Whereas widgets used to be the only way to add non-standard blocks, that is changing with the new block editor. Now users can edit all parts of their site with the block editor. NOTE: It sounds to me like widgets were originally used to add elements that had a unique structure or behavior. These elements were only allowed to be added into certain spaces. However, with full site editing, it sounds like custom elements can now be added anywhere.

How do you insert a block?

By clicking on the block inserter icon in the gutenberg editor.

What things ought you to consider when it comes to user management?

Can users register themselves? What roles are your users going to need? When will I disable an account? Will I ever delete an account? If so, will I need to reassign their posts?

How do you change the settings for a block?

Click on the "Settings" menu in the top right hand corner of the gutenberg editor.

Do you need a caching plugin?

Depends. You should evaluate your page load speeds to determine if you would benefit from a caching plugin. Often times hosting providers have their own caching services available to customers.

What are widgets?

Dynamic content elements that can be inserted into widget ready areas. This content is not part of a page or post.

What are some ways you can combat comment spam on your site?

Edit the settings in Settings -> Discussion. - Limit # links allowed in comment. - Require admin approval of comments. - Comment moderation settings (e.g., phrases, username, IP address, etc.). - Disallowed comment keys (phrases, username, IP addresses for well known spam.). Use an anti-spam plugin.

What is the difference between a synced pattern and an unsynced pattern?

Edits made to a synced pattern will be reflected site wide. Edits to an unsynced pattern will not be reflected site wide.

Where must you add content for a post?

In the post content block. NOTE: This likely only an issue for block themes.

What is the difference between posts and pages?

Posts are blog posts. Pages are typically used for static content. Wordpress enables you to use any combination of pages and blog posts.

How do you access templates?

Site Editor -> Templates NOTE: Applies to FSE only.

How can one create a reusable block for their website?

The "More" option in the block toolbar has an option for adding a block to a list of reusable blocks.

What is full site editing (FSE)?

The ability to edit all aspects of your website as blocks. The goal is to empower users to easily customize things about a website that were previously only editable via code.

Why are themes and plugins kept separate?

The separation of themes and plugins makes it possible to change the look and feel of your website without breaking functionality.

What is the difference between themes and plugins.

Themes change the look and feel of your wordpress website whereas plugins extend it with additional functionality.

Where ought you to find your plugins and why?

Wordpress plugin directory. All plugins in here have been reviewed and approved per Wordpress' plugin guidelines.

What is gutenberg?

Wordpress' default block editor.

What are the four types of themes?

• Block Theme - A theme that uses blocks for all parts of a site. These themes are built for newer features in Wordpress (FSE). The Site Editor is used for managing these themes as opposed to the customizer. • Classic Theme - A theme that does not use the block editor to manage site layout beyond pages and posts. These use the customizer, menus, and widgets to make changes. • Hybrid Theme - A classic theme that adopts some features of FSE. • Universal Theme - A theme that can be configured completely either way.