Plugin

A WordPress Plugin is a piece of software that runs as part of a larger piece of software (WordPress).  A Plugin will not run independantly of WordPress and must be installed (deployed) within WordPress. Plugins achieve certain functions, layouts and … Continue reading

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

The Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) controls how your website looks, including colours, fonts, positioning and layout and much more.  The code on your website (HTM etc) references the style sheet to control how the content is displayed.  This way, you … Continue reading

Theme

A ‘theme’ is the term associated with the design (UI and aesthetical) elements of a WordPress website.  A theme controls the aspects normally assocated with a style sheet, but also included varieties of templates (page layouts) and where content (widgets … Continue reading

CMS (Content Management System)

A Content Management System (CMS) is a piece of software that make editing your website simple and user-friendly. The CMS removes the need for the website editor to have any knowledge of web-editing or coding and most CMS also make … Continue reading