WordPress 24-Hour Trainer, 3rd Edition

Glossary

activate a plugin

The next step after installing a plugin. WordPress displays a list of plugins you've installed, but you need to activate them before they function on your site. You can deactivate a plugin but that still leaves it installed.

Administrator

The highest level of WordPress user. Administrators have full access to all administrative functions, as opposed to, say, Editors, who cannot change the theme of a site nor do anything with plugins.

Admin Bar

The previous name for the Tool Bar at the top of admin screen.

attachment

Any file that has been uploaded to a Post or Page and, as a result, is listed in the gallery for that Post or Page. Though the file can be used anywhere on the site, that uploading process created a unique relationship to the Post or Page and, in that sense, the file has been attached to it.

Auto-Embed

A feature of WordPress that automatically embeds videos from certain video-sharing sites, such as YouTube. Users simply paste the URL of the video on a separate line in the Text Editor and the video is embedded. For security purposes, the list of allowed sharing sites is set by WordPress, though this can be altered by custom coding.

avatar

A small graphic or image used in WordPress comments to represent the person making the comment.

backup

Saving and storing a copy of any information. Backing up WordPress is a two-step process: backing up the database, and backing up the theme and uploaded files.

Blogroll

A list of links. It was originally ...