WordPress Interview Questions and Answers

In Wordpress, an importer is a tool, which is used to migrate content from an existing WP website to another one. This tool can also be used to move a website from the localhost, i.e. local server to an online hosted server.

Using WordPress importer, you can migrate different data like:

• New Posts, pages, or other custom created post types
• Comments in posts
• Custom fields and post metadata
• Categories, tags, and other terms from custom taxonomies section
• Authors on the website

Custom posts types in WordPress are the new post types that developers can create. You can add a custom post type via the register_post_type() function, which allows the developers to define the new post type by labels, features, and availability.

Or we can also create custom post type with the helps of plugins.

• Custom Post Type UI
• Custom Field

Shortcodes in WordPress are specific codes that allow the developers to do various tasks with minimal effort. Shortcodes are used to simplify tasks such as creating objects or embedding files that require lots of coding in a single line. A Shortcode is synonymous to the shortcut. WordPress has five built-in shortcodes- audio, embed, caption, video, and gallery.

Yes. WordPress has all the tools and features to prevent any malicious attacks or brute force attacks on your website. All you need is to make sure you have completed these tasks given below.

Make a strong password and username for your WordPress admin login page and not only this, but the users which have been given editing permissions by you must also have strong passwords.

Having a good firewall can save you from trouble. It doesn't guarantee to eliminate brute force attacks but it can save you from malicious attacks. Make sure to have two-factor authentication or 2FA. WordPress will ask you for confirmation before login in either on your mobile or by email. There is a simple free plugin called Limit Login Attempts Reloaded which will limit the number of logins on your login page. And finally, Always keep your WordPress updated. WordPress brings all new security features on every update.

A Sidebar in WordPress is an area where widgets can be used with a theme and this area is also termed as a Widgetized area. In WordPress, sidebar is created by using a function named as register_sidebar() function. The widget zed area should be registered in WordPress supported the theme as they are presentational. The sidebar function takes only one argument of an associative array of parameters that set the options for the widget area. Wrap $args array and register_sidebar() both are separate functions that can be called on ‘widgets_init’ hooks. In short, with the use of register_sidebar() method/ function users can add sidebars to WordPress. Syntax code for the creation of sidebar-

$args = array(
   'name' => __( 'Sidebar name', 'theme_text_domain' ),
   'id' => 'unique-sidebar-id',
   'description' => '',
   'class' => '', 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   'after_widget' => '</li>',
   'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
   'after_title' => '</h2>'

);

There are many ways when WordPress can interact with databases like using functions like get_posts(), wp_get_post_terms(), wp_query(), and $wpdb(). From all these functions the most effective function to get a database table out of WordPress is the $wpdb() function. $wpdb is a global function and hence is declared with global keyword.

global $wpdb;

Widget is defined as a configurable code snippet which makes it possible to customize the functionality and appearance of a WordPress blog. Users can access the widgets page form the appearance menu effectively. Widgets in WordPress allow you to drag and drop the elements into the sidebar of your website. WordPress is featured with a standard set of widgets that you can use with any theme of WordPress. In order to create a customer widget in WordPress, it is important for the customers.

• In order to create a site-specific plugin, paste the code functions .php file (theme’s file)
• add your code to appearance >> widgets pages
• register with ‘wpb_widget’ and load customer widgets

WordPress has many advantages but sometimes it can get costly for small businesses. This happens when you have a big website and less knowledge to even edit content.

WordPress, CMS requires regular maintenance every 2-3 months for which you need to hire a WordPress developer. These developers will make your website more of a code reliable than plugins reliable. When this happens you will not be able to customize and edit pages and content by yourself and hire more developers instead which will increase the cost of the project.

The second thing is when your website deals with a piece of sensitive information or you are worried more about your website's security, you should not use WordPress because it is prone to attacks by hackers. 1/3rd of all websites are created on WordPress and hence it becomes popular among hackers too since they have too many targets.

Here is a list of some best picks which we think will do the honors. Name any 3-4 and be sure to study about them in brief.

• Yoast SEO
• Google XML sitemaps
• SEO framework
• SEO squirrely
• WP meta SEO
• Rank Math
• SEO press
• AIOSEO (All In One SEO)