Glossary

  • SERP – search engine results position/page
  • Post Tags – a comma delimited list of keywords describing your posts content.
  • Post Categories – a broad grouping of post topics. A form of post organization.
  • WordPress – WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today.
  • Blogroll – A list of links to other blogs that a blogger might recommend.
  • Permalink – The permanent identifier to a single or specific blog post.
  • Slug – A slug is a few words that describe a post or a page. Slugs are usually a URL friendly version of the post title, but a slug can be anything you like. Slugs are meant to be used with permalinks as they help describe the content at the URL. Example post permalink: http://cliftonhatfield.com/blogging-tools/ The slug for that post is “blogging-tools“.
  • RSS – Really Simple Syndication is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.
  • RSS Feed – An RSS-equipped page containing a blog’s latest posts. Example: http://cliftonhatfield.com/feed/
  • Blogoholic – A person addicted to blogging. Example: Clifton Hatfield
  • Link – A selectable connection from one object to another, using hypertext.
  • Tag – Attaching key words to similar posts.
  • Header – the topmost part of the blog that usually displays an image and contains the blog’s title.
  • Index page - Front page of a blog.
  • Footer – Opposite of a Header. The most bottom part of a blog typically containing copyright statements or listing navigation.
  • Posts – Individual articles collectively making up a blog.
  • Archives – Collection of all blog posts on a single page.
  • FTP – (File Transfer Protocol)-The transfer of files to and from your web host using tools such as Dreamweaver or Filezilla.
  • CMS (Content Management System) – Software used to publish/manage websites.
  • Comment Thread – Series of post comments on a particular topic.
  • Sidebar – Column/columns typically found on the side of most blogs.