WordPress Interview Questions Part 1

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1-What is WordPress?

Ans : WordPress is the simplest, most popular way to create your own website or blog. On a slightly more technical level, WordPress is an open-source content management system(CMS) licensed under GPLv2, which means that anyone can use or modify the WordPress software for free.

It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites, mailing lists and Internet forum, media galleries, membership sites, learning management systems and online stores.

2-What is CMS (content management system )?

Ans : A content management system is basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website – like content – without needing to know anything about programming.

2-Expalin about $wpdb variable in WordPress?

Ans : $wpdb is a variable that stores the WordPress database object. It can be utilized to perform custom database activities. It gives the most secure intends for the WordPress database.

3-Is it safe to build a website on WordPress?

Ans : Yes, it is safe to build, as WordPress not allows hacking.

4-For SEO, What are the WordPress plugins mainly used?

Ans : Yes, it is safe to build, as WordPress not allows hacking.

5-For SEO, What are the WordPress plugins mainly used?

Ans : Yoast SEO, All in one SEO etc..

6-Brief on Photon in WordPress?

Ans : Photon is an image speeding up and alteration service for Jetpack-associated WordPress websites. By using this converted images can cache automatically and serve from the WordPress.com CDN. Here images can be edited, resized, and filtered by utilizing an easy simple API controlled by getting query arguments. When you enable Photon in Jetpack, images are refreshed on the fly.

7-Diffeence between WordPress.org and Wordpess.com?

Ans : WordPress.org does not provide hosting, and it’s not even a platform, as it’s often referred to. Remember, WordPress.org is a website hub that houses information, downloads, resources, and a community. Using wordpress.org website we can download Wordperss and install it and use it on self hosted server.

WordPress.com provides hosting and a platform in which to build your site, using the WordPress software.

8-What is current version of WordPress?

Ans : The latest version is the 6.3.1 version.

9- Who are the founders of WordPress?

Ans : WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, American developer Matt Mullenweg and English developer Mike Little.

10- Why WordPress free?

Ans : WordPress is an open source software. It is free in the sense of freedom not in the sense of free beer. Open source software comes with the freedom for you to use, modify, build upon, and redistribute the software in any way you like without paying any fees.