Wordpress Flashcards

Wordpress

A content management system that allows users to place in all the required elements to develop a website. It holds all the images, text, links, pages, and posts, organized in an easy-to-use way develop a website. In terms of the actual applications functions, it is intended to hold a lot of information within a cloud-based server to display to the world wide web.

Hyperlink

Any text or graphic that takes you to another location. Means “Above, Beyond”.

Internal Link

A link that leads into another page in the site. When a page in your site goes to another one you created. (Example: Home Page to an About Page)

External Link

A link that leads into another page that is outside of the current website’s pages, typically to a different site (Example: Our St.Hubert’s Site leading into 11th Hour’s donation pages)

Web Tree

The most basic layout of how a website is formatted and designed in graphics. A loose skeleton of ideas and concepts that lead into the actual development of a website.

HTML Tags

a particular word or letter enclosed by angle brackets, < and >. Used within Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to define elements on a web page

<p>

Paragraph

<h>

Heading

<b>

Bold

<ol>

Ordered List

<ul>

Unordered List

<li>

List

<_> text</_>

Closed Tag

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

A company that hosts the website online for a fee (generally). Often times the CMS is also the ISP (Wordpress (Company), Wix, Figma, etc) . A giant database in a remote location 

Content Management System (CMS)

An application created to work in the cloud to hold a tremendous amount of information and gives us the ability to work with it. Can hold a section of widgets, build a website, etc. 

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

The Web Address in a search bar

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

The very first part of the web address and developed by the military, used for transfering data over the world wide web.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

The coding language that produces the visuals (pages) of the site, what we are looking at. All CMS’s use it.

Metadata

Specified information about any file that belongs on a site. Could include artist’s name, date created, file name, size, etc.

Keyword

 A search term you want a page or post to rank for the most. When people search for that phrase, they should find you

Browser Programs

Google, Firefox, Edge, DuckDuckGo

Search Engine

Looking for keywords to give you website results.  

Slug

the last part of the URL address that serves as a unique identifier of the page.