WordPress Interview Questions and Answers

A : The difference is in who’s hosting your site. With org, YOU host your website or blog. This is where you find the open source software to download.-com, THEY host for you.

Q3 : How safe is a website on WordPress?
 A : The word press is safe to operate, but still, it is suggested to keep updating with the latest version of WordPress to avoid hacking.

Q4 : What are the types of hooks in WordPress and mention their functions?
A : There are two types of hooks 1) Action hooks 2) Filter hooks
Hooks allow a user to create WordPress theme or plugin with shortcode without changing the original files. Action hooks allow you to insert an additional code from an outside resource, whereas, Filter hooks will only allow you to add content or text at the end of the post.

Q5 : What are the positive aspects of WordPress?
A : Few positive aspects of WordPress are

• Easy installation and upgrade
• In-built SEO engine
• Easy theme system
• Flexibility
• Multilingual- available in more than 70 languages
• Own data- no unwanted advert on your website
• Flexibility and Easy publishing option

Q6 : What is WordPress loop?
A : To display post WordPress use PHP code, this code is known as a loop.

Q7 : Does WordPress have cookies?
A : Yes, WordPress has cookies, and WordPress uses cookies for verification of users while logged in.

Q8 : Why you use a static front page in WordPress?
A : Some WordPress users want their WordPress installation to be more than a blog site. To give their page a look more like a real website page some users use static front page.

Q9 : What are the plugins you can use to create a contact form in WordPress?
A : To create a contact form in WordPress, you can use a plugin like Gravity forms or also you can use a free plugin contact form 7.

Q10 : How is creating a site on wordpress.org different from wordpress.com?
A : Most of the things are similar in both except the choices of themes and the use of plugins.

Q11 : Is there any limitation for using WordPress?
A : No, there is no limitation for using WordPress.  WordPress can be used for innumerable purpose membership site, e-commerce site, photo-gallery and many more.

Q12 : In which cases you don’t see plugin menu?
A : You can’t see your plugin menu when the blog is hosted on free wordpress.com as you cannot add plugin there.  Also, if you do not have an account of an administrator level on your WordPress is not possible to see the plugin.

Q13 : How can you disable the WordPress comment?
A : If you go to the dashboard under options “discussion, there is a comment “ Allow people to post comment” try unchecking the comment.

Q14 : At what instance you get locked out of your WordPress admin and look at your website as a blank screen?
A : This would likely happen when you have pasted the code from a website with wrong formats, also when you have pasted the code in an incorrect location. It may also happen when your IP is banned.

Q15 : How is creating a site on wordpress.org different from wordpress.com?
A : Most of the things are similar in both except the choices of themes and the use of plugins.

Q16 : What are the steps you can take if your WordPress file is hacked?
A :

• Install security plugins like WP security
• Re-install the latest version of WordPress
• Change password and user-ids for all your users
• Check your themes and plug-ins are up to date

Q17 : Why does widget not show up in the sidebar?
A : While using a widget, you have to ensure whether your theme supports the widget and if it does then, it must show the sidebar.  If in any case if it happens that you don’t see the sidebar, then it might be missing the “function.php” file or file similar to that.  This can also happen if you have forgotten to save the changes in the widget or to refresh the older display of the page.

Q18 : In what case we cannot recommend WordPress to our client?
A : We cannot recommend WordPress in the following situation:

• If the client is working on a non-CMS base project
• If a site wants complex or innovative e-commerce
• In case of enterprise intranet solution
• Sites are requiring custom scripting solutions.

Q19 : What are the essential features you look for a theme?
A : Theme selection differs according to the requirement, but an ideal theme would be something that would not restrict to use the number of pages, plugins or static homepage.

Q20 : Can you update your own content on the site?
A : It depends on the type of the site or project, but yes one can update their own content on the site.

Q21 : What are meta-tags?
A : Meta-tags are keywords and description used to display website or page information.

Q22 : Can you host WordPress using  Amazon web services such as EC2, RDS, EBS, etc.?
A : Yes, you can host using Amazon web services.

Q23 : Which is the best multilingual plugin for WordPress?
A : Keeping all the limitations in mind, WPML would be the best multilingual plugin for WordPress.

Q24 : Why is wordpress.com considered more secure than wordpress.org?
A : WordPress.com is considered more secure than wordpress.org because they limit the themes and also does not allow installing plugins.  However, the security is more dependable on how the hosting company is hosting your website(wordpress.org) & also what are the steps they are taking to prevent the security problems.

Q25 : Do de-activated plugins slow down a WordPress site?
A : No, de-activated plugins cannot slow down the WordPress site.  Wordpress only loads the active plugins and ignores everything else.