Power Of Jargon
“He must be a bad engineer”. That’s what I thought when an engineer came to my home for fixing my computer.
Why?
Because instead of using right jargon for my computer, he used wrong words. Like he called the capacitors on motherboard batteries and what not!
Next engineer however was different.
Because he explained the problem in right manner, saying “there’s no problem, just the heatsink on the motherboard is getting hot and system reboots because of it!”
Adding some simple jargon made my impression of him different!
And same can happen with you too.
Understanding jargon is quite important. You may use it or not but if you have understanding, well, everything will be easier for you as a WordPress Developer.
In this post, I will be explaining some important terms related to WordPress.
Let’s start:
- Post: A post is a blog article. It is displayed on your blog with other ones in chronological order.
- Page: A page is almost similar to post but it can have its own template to look different and it is static. Posts are entries in your blog while page is, well, a informational article like “About Us”, “Contact” etc.
- Categories: Categories are used to group similar posts. For example, if you have a blog related to computer reviews, you can group reviews according to brands in categories “Dell”, “HP” and “Apple”. Only posts have categories. A post can have multiple categories but at least one category is needed.
- Tags: Tags are almost similar to categories but pages can have them too and tags are mostly used to describe post in detail and are optional.
- Media: Media means uploaded files. All the images, videos, audio files or documents that you upload to your blog are stored in Media Library.
- Comment: Comments are thoughts or views posted by readers on your blog posts or pages.
- Dashboard: Dashboard is the main screen that you get after logging in. It’s address is http://yourblog.com/wp-admin.
- Plugin: Plugin is an add-on for WordPress that extends its functionality. A plugin may do something simple like displaying a message on pages to something complex like turning it into a marketplace or forum! You can find plugins in WordPress Plugin Directory.
- Akismet: If you are a bit into WordPress, you must have heard this name. Akismet is an anti spam plugin for WordPress that helps you avoid bad comments. Bad comments are those which are there just to get a link back to author’s site rather than expressing something useful.
- Permalinks: Permalinks mean “Permanent Links”. By default, WordPress links look like http://yourblog.com/?p=123 It is hard to remember and not search engine friendly. Permalinks allow you to change it to any structure like http://yourblog.com/blog-posts/my-blog-post/
- Sidebar: Sidebar is the area of theme that displays small tit-bits of information apart from the posts. For example, here, the featured posts, popular posts etc. are displayed in sidebar area.
- Widgets: Widgets are the small tit-bits that are displayed in sidebar. You can control them via Appearance → Widgets.
What other WordPress related jargon do you encounter? Do not forget to share or ask in comments.
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