Archives: Glossary

When talking about feeds in WordPress, the word usually refers to RSS feeds – lists with the most recent updates on your website.

A scheduled post is a post that is set to be published at some point in the future.

Screen options is a view within the administration panel that contains settings for customizing what to display on different pages.

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO for short, is a term used to describe methods for making websites appear higher in search engine results.

Settings is a page within the WordPress administration panel in which you manage most of the preferences for your website.

A shortcode is a piece of text which, when processed by the server and displayed in the browser, is replaced by something else.

In web design, the sidebar refers to an element displayed next to the main content in a horizontal layout.

A slug is a URL friendly text string representing a post, page, tag or category, usually constructed from the title of the content it represents.

Spam is a unsolicited form of electronic communication, usually containing some form of unwanted advertising.

Static front page is a feature allowing you to display a page on the front page of your WordPress site, rather than a list of the latest blog posts.