WordPress  Questions & Answers :

01.    What is WordPress ? 

 Ans:  WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. The easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. WordPress started in 2003.

02.   What is the latest version  ?

Ans:  WordPress  4.7.2.

03.   15 Best Frameworks For WordPress :

01.   Genesis

02.   Headway

03.   Divi

04.   Themify

05.   Tesla Themes

06.   WPZoom.

07.   Ultimatum .

08.   Builder

09.   Thesis

10.   Jump Start

11.   PageLines 

12.   Beans  (Free)

13.   Unyson (Free)

14.   Gantry  (Free)

15.   Redux (Free)

04.  From SEO point of view is wordpress helpful? Will it show the website on Google?

Ans: You can have an additional plug-in in wordpress to help with SEO and rank on a popular search engine like Google.

05.  What are the types of hooks in WordPress and mention their functions?

           Ans:There are two types of hooks 1) Action hooks 2) Filter hooks Hooks allow user to                create WordPress theme or plugin with shortcode without changing the original files. Action   hooks allow you to insert an additional code from an outside resource, whereas, Filter hooks will only allow you to add a content or text at the end of the post.

06.  What do you mean by custom field in wordpress?

Ans: Custom field is a meta-data that allows you to store arbitrary information to the wordpress post. Through custom field extra information can be added to the post.

07.  What are the positive aspects of wordpress?

            Few positive aspects of wordpress are

01.  Easy installation and upgrade

02.  In-built SEO engine

03.  Easy theme system

04.  Flexibility

05.  Multilingual- available in more than 70 languages

06.  Own data- no unwanted advert on your website

07.  Flexibility and Easy publishing option

08. What are the rules that you have to follow for wordpress plugin development?

• Create a unique name
• Create the plugin’s folder
• Create a sub-folder for PHP files,  translations and assets
• Create the main plug-in file and fill in header information
• Create activation and de-activation functions
• Create an uninstall script
• Create a readme.txt file
• To detect paths to plugin file use proper constants and functions

09. What is the prefix of wordpress tables by default?

      Ans: By default, wp_ is the prefix for wordpress.
10.  Why does WordPress use MySQL?
     Ans: MySQL is widely available database server and is extremely fast.  It is an open source and it is available at no cost also it is supported by many low-cost Linux hosts so its easy for anyone to host their website.
11. How many tables are there in WordPress by default?
Ans: There are about 11 tables in WordPress by default. Note: With succeeding releases of WordPress this number will change. You need to check phpMyAdmin to determine the number of tables in a vanilla version of latest WordPress installation.
12. What is WordPress loop?
To display post WordPress use PHP code, this code is known as loop.

13. What are the template tags in WordPress?
In WordPress template tags is a code that instructs WordPress to “do” or “get” something.


13. How you can disable the WordPress comment?
If you go on dashboard under options-discussion there is a comment “ Allow people to post comment” try unchecking the comment.
14. What are the steps you can take if your WordPress file is hacked?

• Install security plug-ins like WP security
• Re-install the latest version of WordPress
• Change password and user-ids for all your users
• Check your themes and plug-ins are up to date

15 Does WordPress have cookies?
 Ans: Yes, WordPress have cookies and WordPress uses cookies for verification of users while logged in.
16 What are the plugins you can use to create contact form in WordPress?
To create a contact form in WordPress you can use plugin like Gravity forms or also you can use a free plugin contact form 7.
17.Is there any limitation for using WordPress?
 Ans: No, there is no limitation for using WordPress.  WordPress can be used for innumerable purpose membership site, e-commerce site, photo-gallery and many more.
18. How is creating a site on wordpress.org different from wordpress.com?
Most of the things are similar in both except the choices of themes and the usage of plugins.
19 .Why wordpress.com is considered more secure than wordpress.org?
WordPress.com is considered more secure than wordpress.org because they limit the themes and also does not allow installing plugin’s.  However the security is more dependable on how the hosting company is hosting your website(wordpress.org) & also what are the steps they are taking to prevent the security problems.


20. How you can create a static page with WordPress?
To create a static page in wordpress, in the page section  you have to upload a php files to the server in the theme folder, and then select that as your template.  This allows you to add any page and look that you wanted for your blog and it will remain static.
21. Is there any other CMS better WordPress?
WordPress is no doubt a good CMS, but Drupal and Joomla are among the best CMS you can work with.
22.  Which is the best multi-lingual plugin for wordpress?
Keeping all the limitations in mind, WPML would be the best multi-lingual plugin for wordpress .

23. What are meta-tags?
Meta-tags are keywords and description used to display website or page information.
24. Can you host WordPress using  Amazon web services such as EC2, RDS, EBS etc?
Yes, you can host using Amazon web services.
25. What are the reasons why one should not hack WordPress core file?
The best reason not to hack the core files is that whatever you might be doing has to be reworked as a patch.