Content Management System (CMS) Interview Preparation Guide

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► Posts are timely vs. Pages are timeless.
► Posts are social vs. Pages are NOT.
► Posts can be categorized vs. Pages are hierarchical.
► Posts are included in RSS feed vs. Pages are not.
► Pages have custom template feature vs. Posts do not.

Child themes are often used when you want to customize or tweak an existing WordPress theme without losing the ability to upgrade that theme.
Advantage is child theme is Safe Updates,Easy to Extend,Fallback Safe.

A WordPress child theme is a WordPress theme that inherits its functionality from its parent WordPress theme.

► has_action()
► add_action()
► do_action()
► do_action_ref_array()
► did_action()
► remove_action()
► remove_all_actions()

Hooks are provided by WordPress to allow your plugin to 'hook into' WordPress; that is, to call functions in your plugin at specific times, and thereby set your plugin in motion. There are two types of hooks used in WordPress are Actions and Filters.

The default WordPress excerpt is 55 words long. By modified bit to your functions.php file you can change the length to as you required.

Yes, That is one of the major selling points of using WordPress is that it includes excellent built in search engine optimization (SEO).In Other CMS you have to install SEO extention they either free or Commercial.In WordPress you can also extend SEO feature by using some Nice FREE SEO plugins likes All in one SEO,Yoast These are popular plugins that are known to help your rank on search engines such as Google and Bing.

A default wordpress will have 11 tables. They are-
► wp_commentmeta
► wp_comments
► wp_links
► wp_options
► wp_postmeta
► wp_posts
► wp_terms
► wp_term_relationships
► wp_term_taxonomy
► wp_usermeta
► wp_users

To Display the time the post was published. (uses PHP date formatting as a parameter):

To Getting the URL to the Current Theme.

To Getting the Site's URL.

To Displays the contents of the current post.

Displays the title of the current post.

Condition for check if category is displayed. Its return true or false.

To Displays the excerpt of the current post with read more link for display full post.

To Listing All Pages.

To Enabling WordPress 3.0′s Navigation Menu Feature

Condition for check if page is displayed. Its return true or false.

Its same like we will work in c,c++
$p = &$s

There are six main categories of CMS, with their respective domains of use:

► Enterprise CMS (ECMS)
► Web CMS (WCMS)
► Document Management System (DMS)
► Mobile Content management system
► Component content management system
► Media Content Management System

Almost invariably, no. As we saw above, the usability of CMSs varies widely, with the majority weighing in at the frustrating end of the scale. If you want people to use a CMS, you have to make sure they’re trained properly, and that it’s as simple to use as possible. And this consideration is even more critical if you’re hoping to involve staff who are not tech-savvy at all (which we see a lot).

This can be a real problem. As you saw with Laurence’s article on WYSIWYG editors last month, the standard of the code produced by text editors can be patchy at best. CMSs then drop that material into templates that control the layout of the rest of the page (navigation, header, footer), and often these templates are also suspect.

However, there’s no reason that many CMSs can’t produce clean pages. Wordpress, for example, is exemplary in this, but the real issue is often an awareness of standards-compliant and accessible coding in the people setting up the CMS, rather than any inherent limitation of the tool itself. That said, do make sure to do due diligence on the quality of output before going too far in a purchasing decision.

Er, no. That is the biggest myth of CMSs. Most of the time, the real issues in content creation are around people and processes, not the technology. You need to manage your content creation like any other project – with a clear workflow and timetable, and enough people—with the right skills—to handle what you need to create. The CMS will help you get the content on to the site, but the much more difficult challenge is creating it. And computers don’t write very well.

Requirements gathering is crucial, to make sure you buy on what you need, not on the shiny features that look good in the demonstration.

Another important factor is how easy the system is to use – most likely, the people you’d like to update the site won’t be that technically comfortable, so the best solution is one that has solid usability.

Your boss is unlikely to be happy if your corporate site starts talking about Tom Cruise’s love life or the latest Mac gossip, but from a technical standpoint a blog is little more than a website that’s updated often, almost always with a CMS.

So the functionality of a product like Wordpress could well be exactly what you need (including added features like RSS feeds). The press release example above would be meat and drink to any blogging software, and you can completely customise the design to make your site look nothing like a blog.