Reading the WordPress.org page on WordPress Semantics

I’m continuing to go though the WordPress Lessons. I’ve skimmed the Intro to Blogging and dug deep into the First Steps with WordPress. Now I am reading WordPress Semantics - Learning the Jargon.

I did not know that blogs were considered a form of CMS or content management system. I always thought CMS was used for large companies with lots of information to control. A wiki is also a form of CMS.

If you are not familiar with posts, categories or tags this is an educational read. WordPress also has a page for static information. You can have commenting on a page but you can not categorize a page.

In the Terminology Related to Design section they briefly describe but link to more information on the loop that WordPress goes through when it processes and presents a web page. The dance goes something like this. You have template tags that are in template files that get their info from a MySQL database and a web page is shown. The contrived controlled combination of template tags and template files is called a Theme.

I’ve seen stuff like this before so I’m not too surprised until I get to the next line. “In fact, with the use of a Theme Switcher Revisited Plugin, WordPress designers can allow their visitors to select their own Theme.” Interesting, instead of finding one theme I can find several I like and let my visitors change them as they want.

If there are any theme designers out there who want to design a theme just for a specific color than please let me know. Contact me.

This is also a good page to refer to if you need information on administering the blog. Help links are also provided.

The page is summed up by a little history of the WordPress name. The press part was chosen specifically to associate with printing presses.