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Understanding what's WordPress once and for all
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Getting your hands on WordPress
Making sense of basic internet terminology: hosting, servers, database, and the like -
WordPress content types: what are they and their differences
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How WordPress's admin dashboard is structured
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Making the right call: when to use a custom post type
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Posts, Pages, and Themes: making a sense out of it
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How to create content on WordPressThe most basic concept: appearance vs function (shared)
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Making the right call: when to use a page or a dynamic template
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A quick view on additional terms: glossary for beginners
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Editing your content on WordPress: editors
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Browsing through plugins and add-ons: the WordPress's ecosystem
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The most common types of rework people face for bad decisions
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How to develop an efficient websiteSite performance: making your pages faster to load (how to avoid creating performance issues early on)
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Making the right call: when to install a new plugin vs develop from scratch
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Different ways to create your content: WP's native editor, page builders, template, and custom content
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Understanding menus and widgets
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Making the right call: ways to use menus and widgets
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WordPress content types: what are they and their differences
Tangible June 25, 2023
So far, we’ve briefly talked about what Post types are, but now let’s dive deeper into what they are exactly. Our goal here is for you to understand and apply specific needs to the correct WordPress terminology.
Post types are the different ways that you can organize your content on your WordPress. They are called post types because WordPress was originally thought of as a blogging platform, but it has since evolved, as we have already covered.
There are 7 Post types in WordPress: Posts, Pages, Attachments, Revisions, Navigation Menus, Custom CSS, and Changesets. You can add your custom post types too.
Let’s briefly go over them.