Blogging Glossary

This glossary of blogging terms is compiled to help people who are new to blogging navigate the blogosphere. Blogging has developed its own vocabulary that often combines different words or simply creates new ones as needed. Within this glossary are common terms used within WordPress web development and internet marketing. Throughout my website I have used many of these terms so if you find a phrase or word on my site you don’t understand simply head on back to this page.

Above The Fold
Administrator
Admin Area
Action
AJAX
Alternative text (alt)
Array
Atom
Author
Autoresponder
Attachment
Apache
Autosave
Administration Screens
Absolute Path
Admin Bar

bbPress
Back End
Backlink
Binaries
Blog
Blogging
Blogosphere
Blogroll
Bookmarklet
Boolean
Breadcrumb

Call to Action
Capabilities
Category
CGI
Character Entity
Character Set
Child Theme
chmod
Class
cPanel
Codex
Collation
Cookies
Comments
Content
Content Management System (CMS)
Contributor
Custom Backgrounds
Custom Fields
Custom Headers
CSS
CVS

Dashboard
Database
DDoS
Dedicated Hosting
Default Theme
Deprecated
DIV
DNS
DOM
Domain Name
Draft

Editor
Excerpt

Favicon
Featured Image
Feed
Feed reader
Filters
Fluid layout
Footer
Free Software
Frontend
FTP
functions.php

Gallery
gettext
GMT
GPL
Gravatar
GUI
Gutenberg

Hack
Hacking
Header Image
Hexadecimal Colors
Home Page
Hook
Hosting provider
.htaccess
HTML
Hyperlink

iFrame
IDE
IP address
ISAPI

JavaScript
JPEG
JQuery

Landing Page
Link
Linux
localhost

Mac OS X
MariaDB
Markup
Media
Media Settings
Menu
Meta
Memory Usage
Microformats
MIME
Moblogging
mod_rewrite
Multisite (MU)
MySQL

Navigation
Network
News reader
Nonce

Open Source
Options

Page
Parent Theme
Perl
Permalink
Permissions
PHP
phpMyAdmin
Ping
Pingback
Plugin
Plugin Editor
PNG
Port
Post
Post Format
Post Meta
Post Slug
Post Status
Post Types
Press This
Primary Menu
Profile

Query
Query String
Query Variable
QuickPress
QuickTag

RDF
Relative Path
Relative URI
Recordset
Responsive Theme
Revisions
RSS
RTL
Robots.txt
Role

Scanning
Screen
Screen Options
Security Keys
SEO
Settings
Shared Hosting
Shell
Shortcode
Sidebar
Site
Sitemap
Slider
Slug
Smileys
Spam
Splog
SSH
SSL
Static Front Page
Stats
String
Structure tags
Subscriber
Subdomain
Subversion
SVC
Syndication

Tag
Tagline
Task Based Documentation
Taxonomy
Telnet
Template
Template Tag
Terms
Text editor
Theme
Theme Editor
Theme Framework
Theme Options
Thumbnail Size
Toolbar
Trackback
Transient
Trash

Updates
Unicode
Unix
Unix Time
URL
User Role
UTC

Visual Editor

WAMP
Web server
Widgets
Widget Area
WordCamp
WordPress.com
wp-config.php
WP_Query

XFN
XHTML
XML
XML-RPC