WordPress Interview Questions – Set 05

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Explain Avatar and Gravatar in WordPress.

Word Avatar is used for a user’s profile image in online communications. Gravatar is a web-based service which allows its users to use the Avatar image.

How to optimize WordPress site performance?

Optimization increases the speed of your site and gives the best possible outcome. It improves the ranking of a website.

There are many tricks to optimize a WordPress site. Some of them are given below:

  • Use CDN
  • Use a caching plugin
  • Use a simple theme/framework
  • Keep site updated
  • Split long posts into smaller pages

In which cases, WordPress is not suitable for a website?

These are some situations when WordPress is not recommended:

  • If the client is working on the non-CMS based project.
  • For sophisticated and innovative e-commerce sites.
  • Sites which require custom scripting solutions.

What are the system requirements for installing WordPress?

Database – MySQL 5.0 +

  • Web Server –
  • WAMP (Windows)
  • LAMP (Linux)
  • XAMP (Multi-platform)
  • MAMP (Macintosh)
  • Operating System – Cross-platform
  • Browser Support – IE (Internet Explorer 8+), Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera
  • PHP Compatibility – PHP 5.2+

What are the most exciting and useful features of WordPress?

These are the features which make WordPress very popular:

  • Easy to install and upgrade
  • In-built SEO engine
  • Free and easy theme selection
  • Flexibility
  • Multilingual- available in more than 70 languages
  • Own data- no unwanted advert on your website
  • Flexibility and Easy publishing option

What is WordPress?

WordPress is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) and a blogging tool, based on PHP and MySQL. It is free of cost, and you can use it for any personal and commercial website.

WordPress is the most popular blogging system and used for more than 60 million websites. It is licensed under GPL.

Is WordPress the best CMS or any other CMS is better than WordPress?

No doubt WordPress is good CMS, but Drupal and Joomla are considered better CMS than WordPress to work.

What are WordPress Themes?

With the help of a WordPress theme, you can design the layout and appearance of your website in the front-end.

Explain the steps involved in the backup of the database.

In the database, all your posts, media files, comments, and metadata stored. It also contains user’s information and all your plugin settings. All these information are personal and unique. If you lose them, they are gone permanently. Select your WordPress database (which you created during the installation of WordPress).

Click on Export.
Quick is used when the database is small. Custom is used when the database is large. Suppose we are choosing Custom.
After choosing Custom, a table appears. Select all the tables.
Now come to the Output section.
Choose SQL from the Format drop-down menu.
Check “Add drop table.” It is useful for overwriting an existing table.
Check “If not exists.” It prevents errors when tables are already there.
Now click Go. Your data will be saved in your system.

How can you disable WordPress comment?

You can disable the WordPress comment on the dashboard. On the panel, under the options- discussion you find “Allow people to post the comment.” Uncheck this to disable comment.