WordPress Terminology
Post (2 meanings)
1) A post can refer to a single blog item.
2) A post can also refer to any single content item created in the system. Example:
A Leadership Team item such as the one for Briana Fram is a post.
A Past Production entry such as Letterkenny is a post.
Post Type
A post type refers to any common post types that are packaged with WordPress. Examples are: Posts, Pages.
Custom Post Types
A custom post type is any post type that did not come with WordPress by default and was created by the web team. Examples are: Leadership Team, Past Productions, Contact Blocks.
Category / Taxonomy
Category or Taxonomy refers to categories you can assign to posts to help further categorize and group posts within a post type. The site is currently not using categories but this may change in the future.
Tags
Tag is one of the pre-defined taxonomy in WordPress. Users can add tags to their WordPress posts along with categories. However, while a category may cover a broad range of topics, tags are smaller in scope and focused to specific topics. Think of them as keywords used for topics discussed in a particular post.
We are currently not tagging our content but this may change in the future.
Admin Menu Columns
Admin Menu Columns refers to the columns when viewing all the posts under a post type within the WordPress Admin area. Typically, these will include title and publish date. These can also include status, author, featured image, etc…
Some plugins and some code can control which columns are displayed in these views.
Post Types
Post types refer to a grouping of posts under a single main classification. On our site we have the following post types.
Posts
This is where the blog posts are stored.
Contact Blocks
Contact blocks are used to display a primary contact in the sidebar of some pages. They contain the contact’s name, location, contact details, etc…
Leadership Team
This refers to the team member blocks on the Meet Our Team page.
Past Productions
This refers to individual past production blocks on the Past Productions page.