WordPress 5 Essential Training
Used by 30% of the top 10 million sites.
WordPress.org vs .com
| WordPress | WordPress.org | WordPress.com |
| A free, open-source web publishing application | The official website for the WordPress project | A hosting site for WordPress as a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering |
| Eg: My new site is powered by WordPress | If you’re having a problem with your new WordPress site, try asking a question in the WordPress.org forums. | I build my first blog on WordPress.com. Now I want to add functionality and movie it to a self-hosted WordPress site. |
| The course is about this. not other two. |
How wordpress works
WordPress has three types of content:
- Posts
- Pages
- Media
Posts information, like title, author, and content stored into the database.
But the media file is added to the post, then the media is stored in the server, but its metadata is stored into the database.
Post vs Pages
The post is used for time sensitive thing, not the page. Page is best for content that is not ephermeral.
Play with “more” block
This is the test text after READ MORE.
Categories vs Tags
Categories: how we organize
Tags: additional metadata.
example of closet, the tshirts, shirts, pants, etc. But tags are information on the clothing which shows the material they are made of, washing instruction, etc.
- Taxonomy
- A system or scheme of classifying something.
- Categories are hierearichal taxonomy meaning they can have parent child relationships.
- Tags are non-heirarichal. And they are just metadata.
Reusable blocks
Create templates with reusable blocks. Remember this could be done.
