Archives: Glossary

Media is the collective name for all types of content that you upload to your WordPress site.

Memory usage in WordPress refers to the amount of memory used by a PHP script.

Menus is WordPress feature that allows users to show a list of links in menu locations defined by the active theme.

A WordPress Multisite, also known as a network site, is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation.

MySQL is the database management system that WordPress uses to store and retrieve data.

Nonce is a number or key used once that WordPress uses to protect URLs and forms.

oEmbed is a system for embedding content from other websites on a web page.

Open source software is software with a license that allows anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the software.

Pages are a static type of content that are not sorted by publication date.

A page template is a template that is applied to a page to make it appear or behave differently than regular pages.