Compared to the previous versions, WordPress 4.0 is not an outstanding issue. However, it had already caused an excitement.
So let us have a look at the new useful features that it offers for us.
Category: WordPress basics
It is easy to forget about the significance of security of our internal website with these all recent headlines about large-scale data breaches. But WordPress cares about the issue. It provides 5 default user roles which help you to see how visitors interact with every part of your site.
From now on, you can modify or assign roles through the User screen on the WordPress dashboard, once you understand the possibilities of these 5 WordPress user roles.
WordPress comes with a great set of features designed to make your publish experience on the web as appealing, easy and pleasant as possible. WordPress offers you fast, freely distributed, light, free, standards-compliant, semantic and powerful publishing platform, with a great number of default features and settings, and an highly configurable core.
The article describes a list of some standard WordPress features. In addition, the variety of plugins can expand the default WordPress`s functionality. Thus, its actual functionality has almost no limits. Also you can extend or modify the WordPress code in any way or use it for your business without any license or payment. That is the meaning of free software. The freedom to have complete control over it.
Once you install a plugin, it can be activated or deactivated. Also, you can delete the Plugin, Upgrade the Plugin as well as edit the Plugin file.
When the Plugin needs to be updated, you will see a Red balloon with a number inside it in the left navigation menu. It is a special notification regarding the Plugin Upgrade process. That number inside the balloon will show the number of Plugins that need to be Updated.
WordPress is a CMS that has been created from the ground up by volunteers. Owing to people willing to collaborate worldwide, we now have the documentation, core software, competent support, a series of translations to various languages, get-togethers and other types of events, but, most importantly, we have a perfectly functional blogging system that hosts more than 60 million websites. To keep WordPress running, individuals are willing to sacrifice their spare time, and a growing number of companies now ask their employees to join this project development.
The secret behind WordPress’s success is primarily associated with its manifold community, which, unlike many, does not consist solely of developers. Instead, it is also designers, support volunteers, users, writers, accessibility and experience experts, as well as enthusiasts who make things possible. While strengthening the project, this diversity also implies finding a task for anyone willing to cooperate. So, whatever skills you have, there will be room for you in WordPress community.
An access to all your WordPress installation control features is provided by Administration Screen. It comes in sections, the main navigation, the toolbar (and header), the footer and the work area.
You can find the main navigation menu on the left side of the screen. It contains a description of each of the administrative functions which can be performed by a user. Also, see the Collapse menu button at the bottom of that section. It lists a set of icons by major function. If an item clicked, the sub-menu expands fully within each major function, such as Posts and it expands partly (fly-out) when you hover.
Similar to your house that gets messy after a while, WordPress needs some housekeeping every now and then in order to keep working properly. Hence, optimization is essential for your website, otherwise some problems may eventually occur.
Here are several things that will help your WordPress website run smoothly in case done on a regular basis.
WordPress is ready to embrace search engines straight out of the box. Your aim is to gather the information that the search engine needs to include your site within its database as well as to help the search engine crawl your site. For this purpose, WordPress` functions and features guide a search engine through the pages, categories and posts.
WordPress provides a number of built in search tools aimed to optimization. It includes the ability to create permalinks, to use .htaccess, pinging and blogrolling. Also, there are different hacks and third party plugins useful for search engine optimization (SEO). Read More…
