WordPress Development
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If you have a Managed WordPress account with Valice, you can log in to your WordPress site using the WP Toolkit in your Plesk control panel.
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Included with every Managed WP plan at Valice is the WP Toolkit. The Toolkit is a set of enhancements that make setting up, developing, maintaining, updating, cloning, testing, speedifying (hey, I needed a gerund) and securing WordPress a lot simpler. It’s free! It’s already there. Just head to your Control Panel, and click on “WordPress”…
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Posts are the foundation of the WordPress content management system which began as a platform for blogging. Since the vast majority of websites that have now adopted WordPress are not just blogs, most users will be more likely to be editing Pages and custom post types rather than blog posts. The fundamentals of all posts,…
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Post tags enable you to relate your posts to one or more topics. They are more free-form than post categories and are not hierarchical (i.e., there’s no such thing as a sub-tag or a parent tag, like there are subcategories and parent categories). Post tags are less about organizing and more about relating and allowing…
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Post categories allow you to organize and file your posts into a hierarchical structure. So categories can have sub-categories within them. For example, in a cookbook, you may have categories like meats, salads, or breads; and within breads, you may have subcategories of loaves, rolls, and muffins. Categories have a structure (whereas tags do not,…
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In WordPress development, a term is each individual member of a taxonomy. For example, let’s say you have two categories, red and blue. The taxonomy is “categories.” “Red” is a term, and “blue” is another term. Same thing with tags. If you’ve tagged posts as jazz or blues, “jazz” is a term and ” blues”…
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Taxonomies are different methods for grouping posts or data together in WordPress. Categories are a taxonomy, as are tags, as are post formats. That’s it!
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Let’s start with an example of a non-custom post type. WordPress comes with two post types out of the box: Posts (aka, blog posts) and Pages. So, WordPress is built using a framework of posts; everything you publish in WordPress is a kind of post. The really powerful thing about WordPress is that we can…