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Glossary

We'll be regularly adding to the Glossary, to help explain some of the common terms you'll come across in website design and WordPress.

What are WordPress plugins?

WordPress plugins are used to add to or expand on the functionality of your WordPress powered website. Commonly installed WordPress plugins cover such topics as contact forms, comment spam, and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). What else can WordPress plugins do? Mostly if you have an idea for something you’d like your WordPress website to do then the…

August 3, 2014 by Gary Filed Under: Glossary Tagged With: Plugins

What is a featured image in WordPress?

So what is the featured image in WordPress? and what does it do? Well it really depends on the theme that’s currently being used. We like to use featured images to represent posts/articles on the archive pages, so visiting a category or taxonomy will bring up a list of posts and display their featured images…

June 24, 2014 by Gary Filed Under: Glossary Tagged With: Wordpress

What is an RSS feed?

We’ve been asked this question a couple of times lately, mostly from clients getting onto the web for the first time, so here’s our definition. RSS stands for ‘Rich Site Summary’. An RSS feed delivers a variety of web content in one format, directly to your computer. By using an RSS feed, you are in…

June 12, 2013 by Gary Filed Under: Glossary

Just what are forums?

Forums are an area on your website for users to post topics for discussion, find answers, and to discuss and comment on other users topics. They are essentially a conversation using published messages. Forums are usually divided up into different categories – making it easier for users to find topics that they are interested in.…

September 15, 2011 by Gary Filed Under: Glossary

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