Top Wordpress Interview Question and Answers

Important WordPress Interview Questions and answers for fresher to 5 years experience developer and designer, it help to the interview.

Quick Questions and Answer About Wordpress CMS

1. Wordpress : Written in PHP Programming Language
2. Wordpress : CMS(Content Management System)

3. Wordpress : Supports Unix-like Windows, Linux operating Systems

4. Wordpress :  WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little
5. Wordpress Current Stable release 5.2.2
6. Wordpress is a PHP based Open source CMS

1. What Do You Need to Run WordPress?

     Basically WordPress order version works with PHP 5.6 but latest versions supports with more than PHP 7.0 version. 

Here is what is recommended:

• PHP version 7.2 or greater
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.0 or greater
• HTTPS, HTTP support
• Apache or Nginx are recommended for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do

2. What is a custom field in WordPress?

    The custom field in WordPress is a meta-data that allows the user to store the arbitrary information in the WordPress post. For example,

• Price : 100 Rs
• Favorite color : Blue 

3. What are the Template Tags?

  

    Template tags are used within the Templates to customize your Theme. These are common types of tags are used:

• General Tags
• Author Tags
• Bookmark Tags
• Category Tags
• Comment Tags
• Link Tags
• Post Tags
• Post-Thumbnail Tags
• Navigation Menu Tags

4. There are 4 basic steps you should follow in the case your WP website is hacked.

• First, you should backup the all files and DB,
• clean the Files of affected using virus and remove plugins if affected by virus (need to check the files in cpanel (its may changes rights (000) affected by virus(sometimes hosting provider give these kind facility also), and remove virus and change to rights again as per needed.)) 
• Setup the Website, install a security plugin, for example, WP security. 
• You should also re-install the latest WordPress version, change your passwords and user-ids for all users, and check if all of your plugins and themes are up to date.  

5. What are the types of hooks in WordPress and mention their functions?

In Wordpress two types of hooks 1) Action hooks 2) Filter hooks
Its benefits to allow a user to create Wordpress Theme or plugin with shortcode without changing the
original files. example, Filter hooks will only allow you to add content or text at the end of the post.

6. What are the Features of WordPress? 

• It's easy to understand use
• Easy to create E-commerce
• User Management 
• Search Engine Optimized 
• Easy to use Theme system
• Add features use plugins
• Multi language support
• Media Management
• Custom Content Management