User Guide

Plugin - Extends the functionality of WordPress by adding an additional

feature.

Post - A new item added to a blog.

Profile - Describes the users profile, including their password.

Publish - Make a post or page available to visitors of the website.

Quickpress - A shortcut to quickly adding a post to a blog, with no additional

parameters.

Role(s) - What a user can do on a website, for example a user can undertake the

role of “Administrator” thereby giving them access to everything on the website.

Sidebar - An area of the screen, defined by the theme, that you can add Widgets

to.

Software - The set of PHP scripts and related data that together make up

WordPress.

Spam - Unwanted, and typically commercial comments that clutter up a blog.

Also received via email.

Styles - How a website looks and is laid out. Totally separate from the content,

allow the styles to be changed independently.

Taxonomy - Information on the content, stored as terms. Three are included

with WordPress: tags, categories and link categories. Helps organise the

additional information that describes what you enter.

Term - a single item within a taxonomy, for example one of your post tags.

Theme(s) - A collection of styles and files that can change the look of a website

without effecting the content.

Trash - The collection of deleted files or content that can be recovered.

WordPress 3 User Guide" Glossary