Dictionary

WordPress: glossary

Dictionary of WordPress-related terms, expressions and abbreviations. In this dictionary, I explain technical WordPress terms in common lay language.

Don’t understand the term in WordPress? In this large dictionary , I explain technical terms related to WordPress. Simply and after a shovel.

Table of Contents

A

Administration
Administrator
Akismet
Update
Automatic
the author
Avatar

B

bbPress
Block
Blog
Side panel
Breadcrumbs
BuddyPress

C

Cache
CMS
Content Management System
Cookie
Core
Cron
CSS
Custom Post Type (CPT)
Customizer

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D

Dashboard
Database
Domain

E

E-commerce
Editor (role)
Post Editor
Eshop
Excerpt
Export

F

Featured Image
Feed
Footer
Post format

G

GDPR
GNU General Public License (GPL)
Gravate
Gutenberg

H

Header
Header
Hosting
HTML

CH

Child Theme
Error 404

I

Illustration image
Import
Infinite Scroll

J

WordPress core
JavaScript
Jetpack

K

Category
Media library
Comment
Concept
Trash

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M

Matt Mullenweg
The media
Menu
Module
Display options
Multisite
MySQL

N

WordPress Foundation
Parent topic
Scheduled post
Settings
Bulletin board
Endless scrolling

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Customer
Retail navigation
oEmbed
Open Source

P

Page
Pagination
Parent Theme
Heel
Permalink
PHP
Pingback
Plugin
Post
Post Format
User
Default topic
Pinned post
Attached file
Contributor

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