Do you think you know WordPress like the back of your hand?

I just made up this quiz that you can take to assess your knowledge on WordPress. Please don’t cheat by looking for answers on the Internet or in WordPress. Just take the test from whatever knowledge you have about WordPress

And yes, let me know what you scored in the comments! Be honest.

Who is the founder of WordPress?

Bill Gates
Matthew Mullenweg
Linus Torvalds
Merav Knafo

What website holds the self hosted version of WordPress (the one you can install on your server)?

WordPress.com
WordPress.org
WordPress.info
WordPress.net

What is "Hello Dolly"?

A song by Louis Armstrong
A Poem
A plugin that comes with WordPress
A song by Michael Jackson

What's the latest release version of WordPress?

3.0.2
3.5
3.0
3.0.1

What's the name of the Anti-Spam plugin that comes bundled with WordPress?

Captcha
Akismet
Spam Filter
Catch-a-Spam

What is a Gravatar?

A sequel to the Movie Avatar
A picture that identifies you on blogs' comments.
A website
Another Web 2.0 term

What is a WordCamp?

Camping Trip for WordPress users
A summer camp for children to learn WordPress
A community-driven conference for WordPress users
A plugin for Search Engine Optimization

What's the default theme bundled with the latest release of WordPress?

Kubrick
Basic
Default
Twenty Ten

What's the shortened version of a post called?

Summary
Page
Excerpt
Category

Can you choose your password while installing WordPress?

No, it's generated automatically by WordPress
Yes, WordPress suggests you some passwords and you can choose one among them.
Yes, you can do so after the release of WordPress 3.0
None of the Above

What are Permalinks?

The links that are permanently embedded into the Internet
A basis for plugin installation
These are the permanent links for posts and pages
These are SEO-friendly URLs generated by WordPress

What's a Slug?

The post date and time
Search Engine friendly version of the post title
A future post
A short form of Categories and Tags

What's a Tagline?

Its same as a Tag cloud
A line that separates the tags from categories
A catchy phrase describing your blog
A short line about your posts content

What's the best way of blacklisting a user from posting comments on your blog?

By blocking his IP address
By blocking his e-mail address
By blocking his name
All of the above

I made a new category but its not showing up on my blog. What must be the cause?

You misspelled the category name
You are bluffing
One of your tags is same as your category
The category has no posts under it

Can I install any number of plugins in my WordPress?

Yes, plugins are good to use and increase the functionality of WordPress.
No, you can only install 235 plugins per copy of WordPress.
Yes, because they are free and community supported
No, plugins are heavy scripts and overload the CPU of your hosting server.

RSS is...

Really Simple Syndication
Really Syndicated Source
Real Source Syndication
Really Sound Syndication

What's a Sponsored WordPress Theme?

A WordPress theme that is sponsored by the WordPress Community
A premium WordPress theme that you buy from the Internet
WordPress theme covered under the "theme sponsoring program 2005"
A theme that is developed for its sponsors and contains their websites' hyperlinks

Today, I downloaded and played the new release of one of my favorite PC games – Mafia II (a timed demo available free on Steam). But man oh man!…I must say that developers have done a real shitty job. They have pulled out all that the game was good for, and introduced new mechanics which are really not that great.

I am very disappointed since I was waiting for this game to be released for ages now (the game’s already been delayed a lot). Here are some in-depth details on why the game called Mafia II sucks :-

Graphics

Mafia franchise is always meant to be dark, gritty and serious business. The graphics in Mafia II have a little cartoonish feel to them. I cannot really explain this, but overall the world is too bright and happy, which is not how things should be in a game where cops are chasing criminals and everybody carries a gun under the hood (I hope you know what I mean!).

The textures are sharp but overall the graphics lack depth and seriousness.The original Mafia game looked much better at its time making it an instant hit with gamers. This version looks lame and is definitely not a trendsetter (which I was expecting).

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Meteor Slides

Meteor Slides makes it simple to manage a slide show with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides. The slides are managed as featured images through the media library; they will automatically be cropped to the dimensions specified on the settings page. Optionally, each slide can link to any Post, Page, or external URL of your choice. Meteor Slides is easy to use, but the options should offer enough flexibility to use the slide show in many different ways.

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Front-End Editor

A WordPress plugin that enables “edit in place” functionality on your website or blog. It lets you edit posts or pages directly from your website. No need to load the admin back-end just to correct a typo.

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GetSocial

GetSocial allows your visitors to easily share your blog posts to their social networks via a floating box that never goes out of sight. GetSocial is compatible with the leading web browsers and allows you to add social networks of your choice to the sharing box.

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If you are a WordPress user, its time to upgrade to the latest release of WordPress 3.0 (codenamed “Thelonious”). The new release comes with a lot of changes and bug fixes (I had also blogged about the upcoming changes in this post :- http://www.blogohblog.com/whats-new-in-wordpress-3-0/ ).

The most notable changes include :-

• Define your own admin username/password during the installation of Wordpress
• Bulk Updates of plugins and WordPress in one place.
• Detailed help on every screen
• A New theme that replaces the default theme called TwentyTen (2010) with lots of features
• Define your own Custom Backgrounds/Headers
• Custom Menu system to hand craft your navigation system
• Custom Post types to create a CMS type capability
• Inbuilt URL Shortening service
• WordPress + WPMU combined to manage multiple blogs

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It gives me immense happiness to present to all my blog readers,  a brand new free WordPress theme called Businezz! As you can guess by its name, this is a business styled theme which can be used by anyone wishing to launch a company,corporate or business website/portfolio. Businezz sports a crisp design that will add value to any blog/website that implements it.

The theme comes with a ready-to-use homepage and a separate blog page for your posts. All the different segments of the home page have been designed keeping in mind how a company website should look. The home page can be easily set up from the theme options that have been integrated with the WordPress admin section.  For the blog, all you have to do is make a new page and choose its page template as the “blog template”. So basically, this a two in one theme

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Whenever I am developing a new website or WordPress theme, I try and look for new kind of content sliders and carousel scripts (that can scroll images & HTML content). Over a period of time, I have bookmarked some efficient sliders that can also be easily integrated into WordPress if you have the skills. I am sure these will be helpful to both moderate and advanced developers alike. Here is the list :-

1. Sproing!

This is a lively script that make your images grow in size whenever someone hovers their cursor over the thumbnails.

2. Easy Slider JQuery Plugin

An easily configurable content slider plugin for JQuery that supports both horizontal and vertical scrolling. I have used this for my last Premium theme – Freedom.

3. Floom

This is the prettiest of them all! It uses Mootools to beautifully transition between images and overall a very cutting-edge image slider.

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I’m very happy to announce my new Premium WordPress Theme called “Freedom”.

This is a one of its kind Premium WordPress theme that comes with a revolutionary “Theme Maker” (Also known as a Color Scheme Generator). This allows you to create your own color schemes using three basic colors (primary, secondary & tertiary).

If you have observed carefully, most well-designed websites comprise of 3 major colors that define the total look of the website. You can choose your own colors or just choose from 24 ready-made color schemes provided in the theme options panel. So basically, this theme redefines the concept of theme making and gives you the freedom (pun intended) to make your own color schemes!

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Embed Article has come up with a creative way to eliminate the negative side effects that arise from someone copying your content and pasting it onto their own blog. And with the recent launch of their WordPress Plugin, it’s now even easier for WordPress users to integrate their free technology.

Let’s start by painting a dirty picture that the majority of bloggers have dealt with. You spend a great deal of time and energy researching, writing, editing, thinking, developing, rewriting, and finally publishing a quality post on your blog for your readers to enjoy. Turns out, they love it! They love it so much that a few of them copy your post or parts of it, and publish it on their own blog. That’s very flattering, however, now your well written post is out there multiple times, competing against itself in search traffic and earning you zero ad revenue on this 3^rd party blog. Bummer, right? The link back they gave you is great, but if only there was another way you could allow the sharing of your content without dealing with these negative side effects…

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Over the past few years, mobile Internet consumption has increased at an exponential rate.  A good portion of this can be attributed to the success of smart phone devices like Google’s Android platform, Apple’s iPhone, RIM’s Blackberry, and of course Windows mobile phones.

When phones first became Internet capable, it was common for developers to enable their web pages to work with the WAP browsers. Current smart phones are much more powerful, the browsers work with standards in-line with their larger computer brethren. This has led many developers feel that there is no need to create versions of their websites that work with WAP browsers.

While that may be true, some provisions  should be made to insure that your users will have quick access to your content using the slower Internet connections provided by their phones. Below i have outlined a few tips to make sure your website will satisfy your visitors on their mobile devices.

Create a Mobile Sub-Domain

Creating a mobile version of your website begins with creating a sub-domain of your current site. Most users have become accustomed to appending “m” or “mobile” so that your URL reads m.yoursite.com or mobile.yoursite.com. After creating a sub-domain, you have the choice in how you want your mobile site to work. Either it can be a mirror of your main sites content with a custom CSS file made for mobile browsers or you can choose to make an independent site that has its own content that you feel would benefit mobile users.
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