Beginnings/Origins
This founder of StudioPress is credited with pioneering the business of selling WordPress themes.
Who is Brian Gardner?
This version control system was released in 2005 by the developer of Linux.
What is git?
HTTP
What is HyperText Transfer Protocol?
This is the project name for what became known as the Block Editor.
What is Gutenberg?
This process for decreasing filesize strips unnecessary characters and whitespace from files.
What is minification/minify?
This is the year in which WordPress launched their Theme Directory.
What is 2008?
This process of making your code support multiple languages is abbreviated as i18n.
What is Internationalization?
CSS
What is Cascading Style Sheets?
This Admin Panel submenu item, added with WP 5.2 in 2019, shows security and performance issues, and server information such as the PHP version.
What is Site Health?
This infamously irritating tag element, used to draw attention to text, was deprecated in HTML 4.0 and is no longer supported by modern browsers.
What is <blink>?
We will also accept <marquee>
This tasty company based in Nova Scotia bought Advanced Custom Fields Pro last year.
Who is Delicious Brains?
(before the WP Engine deal)
This WP Database table is where you will find your site url.
What is wp_options?
SSL
What is Secure Sockets Layer?
This is the current latest version number of WordPress.
What is 6.2?
This icon in the browser’s location bar indicates that all content on a site is secured via SSL.
What is a padlock?
He is Elegant Themes's Founder and CEO.
Who is Nick Roach?
This oddly-spelled web server recently surpassed Apache to become the internet’s most widely used server.
What is Nginx?
RSS
What is Really Simple Syndication?
He is the jazz musician the current version of WordPress is named for.
Who is Eric Dolphy?
This is the small image shown in the browser tab when visiting a site.
What is Site Icon or favicon?
The WordPress content management system (CMS) was developed in 2003 by American blogger Matt Mullenweg and this British blogger.
Who is Mike Little?
This is the line needed in your wp_config.php file to enable a Multisite.
What is
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
SQL
What is Structured Query Language?
Name one of the Admin Panel submenu items related to personal data that was added in response to the European GDPR in 2019.
What is Export Personal Data, Erase Personal Data?
In a WordPress child theme, these are the only 2 required lines in style.css.
What are:
Theme Name
Template