An avatar is
a graphic image or picture that represents a user.
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18. Hosting provider
Domain names were
created to provide an easier means of accessing internet resources than IP
addresses, which are cumbersome to type and difficult to remember. Every domain
name has at least one corresponding IP address, but only a small number of IP
addresses have a domain name associated with them, since only computers that
are web servers require domain names. The Domain Name System (DNS) is what maps
Domain names to IP addresses.
An avatar is
a graphic image or picture that represents a user.
2. Blog
A blog,
or weblog, is an online journal, diary, or serial published by a person or
group of people.
Blogs are typically
used by individuals or peer groups, but are occasionally used by companies or
organizations as well. In the corporate arena, the only adopters of the blog
format so far have tended to be design firms, web media companies, and other “bleeding
edge” tech firms.
Blogs often contain
public as well as private content. Depending on the functionality of the CMS
software that is used, some authors may restrict access — through the use of
accounts or passwords — to content that is too personal to be published
publicly.
3. Blogging
Blogging is the
act of writing in one’s blog. To blog something is to write
about something in one’s blog. This sometimes involves linking to something the
author finds interesting on the internet.
Related
articles: 5
Minute Blogging Tutorial for Beginners, The Beginning
Bloggers Checklist, 5
Performance Goals for Bloggers
4. Blogosphere
The blogosphere is
the subset of internet web sites which are, or relate to, blogs.
5. Blogroll
A blogroll is
a list of links to various blogs or news sites. Often a blogroll is “rolled” by
a service which tracks updates (using feeds) to each site in the list, and
provides the list in a form which aggregates update information.
6. Category
Each post in WordPress
is filed under a category. Thoughtful categorization allows posts to be
grouped with others of similar content and aids in the navigation of a site.
Please note, the post category should not be confused with the
Link Categories used to classify and manage Links.
7. Comments
Comments are a
feature of blogs which allow readers to respond to posts. Typically readers
simply provide their own thoughts regarding the content of the post, but users
may also provide links to other resources, generate discussion, or simply
compliment the author for a well-written post.
You can control and
regulate comments by filters for language and content. Comments can be queued
for approval before they are visible on the web site. This is useful in dealing
with comment spam.
8. Content
Content consists
of text, images, or other information shared in posts. This is separate from
the structural design of a web site, which provides a framework into which the
content is inserted, and the presentation of a site, which involves graphic
design. A Content Management System changes and updates content, rather than
the structural or graphic design of a web site.
9. Content Management System
A Content
Management System, or CMS, is software for facilitating the maintenance of
content, but not design, on a web site. A blogging tool is an example of a
Content Management System.
10. cPanel
cPanel is a
popular web-based administration tool that many hosting providers provide to
allow users to configure their own accounts using an easy-to-use interface.
11. CSS
CSS, or Cascading
Style Sheets, is a W3C open standards programming language for specifying how a
web page is presented. It allows web site designers to create formatting and
layout for a web site independently of its content.
12. Default theme
Every installation of
WordPress has a default theme. The default theme is sometimes called
the fallback theme, because if the active theme is for some reason lost or
deleted, WordPress will fallback to using the default theme.
Up to Version 2.9.2
the default theme was the WordPress Default theme (sometimes call Kubrick) and
was housed in the wp-content/themes/default folder. Starting
with Version 3.0, the Twenty Ten theme became the default (and fallback) theme.
13. Draft
The draft post
status is for WordPress posts which are saved, but as yet unpublished. A draft
post can only be edited through the Administration Panel, Write Post SubPanel
by users of equal or greater User Level than the post’s author.
14. Feed
A feed is a
function of special software that allows “Feedreaders” to access a site
automatically looking for new content and then posting the information about
new content and updates to another site. This provides a way for users to keep
up with the latest and hottest information posted on different blogging sites.
Some Feeds include RSS (alternately defined as “Rich Site Summary” or “Really
Simple Syndication”), Atom or RDF files. Dave Shea, author of the web design
weblog Mezzoblue has written a comprehensive summary of feeds. Feeds generally
are based on XML technology.
15. FTP
FTP, or File
Transfer Protocol, is rather predictably, a client-server protocol for
transferring files. It is one way to download files, and the most common way to
upload files to a server.
An FTP client is
a program which can download files from, or upload files to, an FTP server.
You may need to use an
FTP client to upload your WordPress files to your web server, particularly if
you use a hosting provider.
16. Gallery
As defined by Andy
Skelton, Gallery, introduced with WordPress 2.5, is specifically an
exposition of images attached to a post. In that same vein, an upload is
“attached to a post” when you upload it while editing a post.
In the uploader there
is a “Gallery” tab that shows all the uploads attached to the post you are
editing. When you have more than one attachment in a post, you should see at
the bottom of the Gallery tab a button marked “Insert gallery into post”. That
button inserts a shortcode into the post. WordPress replaces that shortcode
with an exposition of all images attached to that post. Non-image file types
are excluded from the gallery.
Note: If you don’t see
the “Insert galley into post” button, it may be because you have not attached
two images to the post.
The pretty URLs for
attachments are made only after you have published the post and should be
composed as the post permalink plus the attachment slug.
17. Gravatar
A gravatar is
a globally recognized avatar (a graphic image or picture that represents a
user). Typically a user’s gravatar is associated with their email address, and
using a service such as Gravatar.com,
a blog owner to can configure their blog so that a user’s gravatar is displayed
along with their comments.
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18. Hosting provider
A hosting
provider is a company or organization which provides, usually for a fee,
infrastructure for making information accessible via the web. This involves the
use of a web server (including web server software such as Apache), and may
involve one or more related technologies, such as FTP, PHP, MySQL, and
operating system software such as Linux or Unix.
19. HTML
HTML,
or Hypertext Markup Language, is the W3C standard language with which all
web pages are built. It is the predecessor to XHTML, but HTML is often still
used to describe either one. It is often used in conjunction with CSS and/or
JavaScript.
WordPress strives to
conform to the XHTML standard.
20. IP address
An IP
address is a unique number (e.g. 70.84.29.148) assigned to a computer (or other
internet-capable information appliance, such as a network printer) to enable it
to communicate with other devices using the Internet Protocol. It
is a computer’s identity on the internet, and every computer connected to the
internet is assigned at least one — although the methods of assigning these
addresses, and the permanence
and duration of their assignment, differ according to the use of the computer
and the circumstances of its internet use.
Every web server is
assigned an IP address as well, but often times hosting providers will assign
multiple IP addresses to one computer, in the event that multiple web sites
reside on the same physical server. This is the case with most inexpensive
‘managed’ or ‘group’ hosting packages.
Domain names were
created to provide an easier means of accessing internet resources than IP
addresses, which are cumbersome to type and difficult to remember. Every domain
name has at least one corresponding IP address, but only a small number of IP
addresses have a domain name associated with them, since only computers that
are web servers require domain names. The Domain Name System (DNS) is what maps
Domain names to IP addresses.
