WordPress MCQs
WordPress MCQs
The following WordPress MCQs have been compiled by our experts through research, in order to test your knowledge of the subject of WordPress. We encourage you to answer these multiple-choice questions to assess your proficiency.
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1: What is a "pluggable function"?
A. A function placed in wp-includes/pluggable.php that let you override certain core functions via plugins
B. A function placed in wp-includes/pluggable.php that can be overridden if you create the pluggable.php file
C. A function that can only be used by plugins
D. A function placed in wp-includes/pluggable.php that can be removed only with a plugin.
2: WordPress gives you the ability to theme the way attachments are displayed by adding MIME_type.php files to your theme.
A. False, this is still being developed
B. False, this was never a feature
C. False, this was deprecated >=3.0
D. True
3: Which line of code would you add to your wp-config.php file to enable the WP_DEBUG feature?
A. define('WP_DEBUG',true);
B. define('WP_DEBUG', false);
C. define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
D. define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);
4: If you forget your admin password, you should try this first:
A. Check the support blog
B. Click lost password
C. Call 1-800-WordPress
D. Contact WordPress support
5: Do new versions of WP provide support for automatic upgrades of itself?
A. No
B. Yes
6: True or False: The $wpdb object can be used to read data from any table in the WordPress database (such as custom plugin tables), not just the standard tables that WordPress creates.
A. true
B. false
7: True or False: You can replace JavaScript libraries included with Wordpress.
A. True
B. False
8: What is the name of comment spam prevention plugin that comes default with WordPress?
A. Akismet
B. Intense Debate
C. Jetpack
D. Curecomment
E. Disqus
9: WordPress is an example of what type of software?
A. Linux
B. Proprietary
C. Open Source
D. Windows
10: You can easily add functionality to your WordPress blog by adding a:
A. Apps
B. Plug-in
C. Tool
D. Adapter
11: Of the following, which is a page in the administrative area of WordPress?
A. Dashboard
B. None of these
C. Codex Control
D. Dashter
12: How do you deactivate a plugin?
A. On the Plugins menu, select the plugin and click Deactivate
B. Delete the source code for the plugin from your server
C. Your site moderator must deactivate it for you
D. Plugins cannot be deactivated
A. True
B. False
14: WordPress is open source software.
A. True
B. False
15: Is it possible to hide wordpress header info?
A. Yes
B. No.
16: How many authors can you have on your WordPress blog?
A. 1
B. 10
C. Unlimited
D. 2
E. 100
17: WordPress is written in what programming language?
A. Python
B. Java
C. PHP
D. Perl
E. Ruby on Rails
18: How much does it costs to host your plugin in WordPress plugin directory?
A. Free
B. $2.99/year
C. $10.99/year
D. $4.99/year
E. $1,000 Plugin Submission and Approval Fee
19: What is the maximum number of blogs that can be created in a WordPress network?
A. 3000
B. Unlimited
C. 25
D. 100
E. 10
20: I am backing up my WordPress website. At a minimum, I need to make copies of:
A. The database and wp-content folder.
B. The wp-content folder.
21: What is the default WordPress admin url?
A. /wp-manage
B. /wp-admin
C. /admin
D. /manage
22: Can you add custom meta boxes to the post editor page?
A. Yes
B. No
23: What considerations should you make when using WordPress for a high-traffic site?
A. Determine what size of files you will be hosting and plan accordingly
B. All of these
C. Make sure your host or hardware/network can handle the traffic
24: When you use custom CSS to lay out your site, you can:
A. Text-wrap around an image
B. Use image styles
C. All of these
D. Add borders and captions
25: WordPress requires which of the following?
A. A server with a lot of help from your neighbors
B. A server with Perl and MySQL
C. A server with PHP and MySQL
D. A server with PHP and PostgreSQL
E. A server with Ruby on Rails
26: How can you get involved with WordPress?
A. Attend Word Camp
B. All of these
C. Submit a bug report
D. Help in the Forums
E. Edit the Codex (documentation)
27: You can post to WordPress from iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, and WebOS phones.
A. True
B. False
28: Which relational database does WordPress use?
A. PostgresSQL
B. Oracle
C. MySQL
D. MS SQLServer
29: How do you install a WordPress theme on your site?
A. Upload the theme in /wp-content/themes/
B. Copy and paste the source code into a blog entry
C. Themes are not applicable to WordPress
D. Upload the source code to your server
30: How much time do you have to edit a post after publishing?
A. Posts can be edited at any time.
B. 24 hours
C. 1 hour
D. 5 minutes
E. 15 minutes
31: WordPress is a:
A. Coded Content Silo
B. Content Management System
C. Content Production Developer
D. Customer Relationship Manager
32: You can build your WordPress site in your own language?
A. False
B. True
33: How do you speed up the load time of your Wordpress website?
A. All of these
B. Compress images before uploading.
C. Minimize plugin installation.
D. Minimize CSS.
E. Use a Content Delivery Network.
34: Where can you change your blog title?
A. From the widget
B. Upgrade the wordpress.org
C. Under the "Settings > General" screen within the WordPress admin
D. You need to change core code
E. You cant change the blog title
35: Once you have entered your content onto your blog and completed final edits, what button do you activate to send it live?
A. Enter
B. Submit
C. Go
D. Publish
36: What is the key to solid WordPress SEO?
A. Backlinks and permalinks
B. Relevant content
C. All of these
D. Minimal duplicate content
37: How can you install a widget on your blog?
A. The server programmer must add it for you
B. Upload a file with the code for the widget onto your server
C. Go to “widgets” in Appearance, browse available widgets and install them
D. Copy and paste the code for a widget into your blog
38: What software stack does WordPress require to operate correctly?
A. Ruby, MySQL, and Apache
B. PHP, MySQL and Memcached
C. Python, MySQL and nginx
D. PHP, MySQL, and a web server
39: Can you unschedule an event from WP cron, if the event has been created by another plugin?
A. No
B. Yes
40: What is the name of the most famous WordPress plugin?
A. Hello Manny
B. Hello Dolly
C. Hello Kelly
D. Hello Sally
41: Items in WordPress sidebars are generally called:
A. Widgets
B. Blocks
C. Content Zones
D. Content Areas
42: In WordPress, what is the user role with the highest privilege level?
A. Contributor
B. Administrator
C. Editor
D. Author
43: The sections of information that you can visually drag into your sidebar / footer are called?
A. Excerpts
B. Gremlins
C. Widgets
D. Plugins
E. Chunks
44: This filter is used by WP to minimize spam content:
A. Scramble
B. Akismet
C. Eskimo
D. Askimo
45: In what folder are Plugins and Themes located?
A. wp-content/
B. wp-extensions/
C. wp-common/
D. wp-includes/
E. wp-admin/
46: Before you upgrade WordPress, what is the most important task you must perform?
A. ensure your WP account is paid
B. backup your database
C. install Askimet
D. ensure the new version ends with ".2"
47: Is it possible to add a full-featured security plugin to your WordPress installation?
A. Not Sure
B. Yes
C. No
48: True Or False ? is it possible to disable WordPress autosave function?
A. False
B. True
49: WordPress began as a publishing platform for:
A. Web applications
B. Newspaper sites
C. Blogs
D. Business homepages
50: How can you display an RSS feed in your blog?
A. RSS feeds cannot be enabled
B. RSS feeds do not work with WordPress
C. Add the RSS widget to your sidebar
D. Approve the feed link in Remote Content
51: Wordpress is used by major companies such as People Magazine and CNN
A. True
B. False
52: New themes can be chosen from which Dashboard section?
A. Appearance
B. Widgets
C. Jetpack
D. Plugins
E. Settings
53: How can you add an image to your blog entry?
A. Email the image to your server moderator and ask them to post it
B. Upload the image to your server
C. Click "add an image" and enter the URL of the image, or upload an image from your computer
D. You can't add an image to blog entries in WordPress
54: Standard post URLs like /index.php?p=76 can be replaced via:
A. my-hacks.php
B. Core File Hacks
C. Permalinks
D. Plugins
E. Jetpack
55: Where can you edit your permalink settings?
A. Settings - Permalinks
B. Settings - General
C. Settings - Privacy
D. Settings - Reading
56: When registering a new post type if you set public => true, then your post type will be
A. All of these
B. visible in the admin interface.
C. visible in search results.
D. available for selection in navigation menus.
E. visible publicly in the front-end.
57: WordPress can only be used as a blog.
A. True
B. False
58: What is a theme in WordPress?
A. A color scheme
B. A set of files that work together to create the design and functionality of a WordPress site
C. A plugin that extends the functionality of a WordPress site
D. The combined design and messaging statements in your site that drive the user to a specific 'call to action'
59: What is the name of the first page you encounter after logging into your web page?
A. Security question page
B. Dashboard
C. WP upgrade option
D. WPAdmin
60: Where should you go to download the latest version of WordPress?
A. WordPress.org
B. WP.org
C. WordPress.com
D. GoDaddy
61: What is WooCommerce?
A. Is a Web Page
B. It's a plugin for electronic commerce
C. Is a plugin for
D. Is a plugin information exchange
E. Is a widget
62: WordPress plugins might also be referred to as:
A. extras
B. fillers
C. additions
D. add-ons or extensions
63: When you install a theme, where will the theme files be stored?
A. wp-content
B. wp-admin
C. wp-root
D. wp-config
E. wp-includes
64: What are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress?
A. Modules
B. Themes
C. Plugins
D. Blocks
E. Components
65: How would you troubleshoot the error message: "Database not connected."?
A. None of these
B. You change the username in phpMyAdmin
C. Check the database name, user and password in wp-config.php
D. You check style.css
E. You check functions.php
66: Which plugin is used for the contact form
A. Contact WP
B. Contact Details
C. Contact Form 7
D. WP Form
E. Wordpress Contact
67: How can you add a plugin to your WordPress site?
A. The server administrator must add the plugin for you
B. In the navigation menu, choose “edit plugins” under plugins
C. WordPress doesn't support plugins
D. In the navigation menu, choose “add new” under plugins
68: WordPress Widgets are designed to do the following:
A. works in conjunction with plugins to ensure a more secure site
B. simplify the arrangement of the various elements of your sidebar content, without code changes
C. aid navigation through the web to find similar content to yours
D. allows for easier uploading of content onto your home page
69: Which one of the following is required in a child theme. What is it?
A. functions.php
B. sidebar.php
C. widget.php
D. style.css
70: What is the file that WordPress edits (or you can edit yourself) when installing WordPress?
A. The wp-installation.php file
B. The wp-config.php file
C. The wp-login-information.php file
D. The wp-installer.php file
E. The wp-database-settings.php file
A. False
B. True
72: When you install a plugin, where will the plugin be saved?
A. wp-root
B. wp-includes
C. wp-admin
D. wp-content
E. wp-config
73: On a default configuration of self-hosted WordPress, which one of these lets me login to manage the site?
A. /wordpress.com
B. /wp-login.php
C. /login
D. /letmein
E. /admin
74: What are the registered user roles?
A. Viewer, commentator, author, guest, subscriber
B. Visitor, user, contributor, blogger, lurker
C. Subscriber, contributor, author, editor, administrator
75: Does WordPress have a built-in url rewrite engine?
A. Yes
B. No, you need a SEO plug-in
C. No, and there's no way because it is useless
76: Can you migrate your WordPress.com blog to your own hosted website?
A. Yes, but you need to export the content and re-import it to your website
B. Yes, but you have to purchase and syncronizer plugin
C. You really shouldn't do this at all.
D. No, this is not allowed as per the terms of service on WordPress.com
77: When upgrading to a newer version of WordPress, you should check with your web host to ensure the following minimum required versions of these exist:
A. PHP and MySQL
B. PHP and SSH (Secure Shell Access)
C. WinZip and MySQL
D. PHP and FTP
78: WordPress is powered by the content management platform Drupal.
A. True
B. False
79: When you need to access your WP Dashboard, which URL do you use?
A. www.yourdomain.com/wp/dashboard
B. www.yourdomain.com/admin/wp-admin
C. www.yourdomain.com/admin-wp
D. www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
80: Which function should you use to send an e-mail from within WordPress?
A. wp_mail
B. imap_send
C. mail
D. smtp_send
81: True or false? wp_enqueue_scripts is the proper hook to use when enqueuing items that are meant to appear on the front end, but despite the name, it is used for enqueueing both scripts and styles.
A. False
B. True
82: Which of the following can you download and use to extend the native WordPress functionality?
A. hooks
B. add-ons
C. sparks
D. plugins
83: What can widgets do with supported themes?
A. Spell check your blog posts
B. Change the colors and fonts of the theme
C. Place videos in the body of your posts
D. Add content to your sidebars
84: Which license is WordPress available under?
A. GPL v2
B. Apache
C. BSD
D. Other
E. Proprietary
85: What is the name of WP_Query pagination parameter used to limit posts shown per page?
A. limit
B. posts_per_page
C. total
D. per_page
86: True or False? A standard WordPress installation can be set to require an administrator to always approve a comment without a plugin.
A. False
B. True
87: Themes can add which of the following to WordPress?
A. Design
B. Functionality
C. All of these
D. Additional CMS capabilities
E. Settings
88: WordPress displays in US English by default, but is capable of being used with
A. any language
B. UK, Canadian, Australian and US English
C. all languages that do not contain accents and symbols
D. all languages within North America and Asia
89: How do you post a new blog entry?
A. Click “blog info” on the main site
B. Email your entry to the WordPress moderators to have them post it
C. Click “My dashboard” on the main site
D. Click “new post” on the main site
90: post, page, attachment, revision and nav_menu_item are all reserved post types?
A. false
B. true
A. wp_users
B. wp_usermeta
C. wp_options
92: How do you change the date display format in WordPress posts?
A. Install the Date Modifier plugin
B. Enter a sample date using Jan 1 1900 as a placeholder
C. It's controlled by the theme, so check theme settings
D. Change the format under General Settings
93: When you use the "Export" feature of WordPress, it creates a ______ file which can then be imported to retrieve all posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.
A. JPEG
B. RSS
C. XML
D. JSON
A. abc -child
B. abc-child
C. abc child
95: How do you format text in your blog entry?
A. Copy and paste the formatted text from a word processing program
B. Use raw html to format the text after clicking the HTML tab or use the rich text editor to format the text
C. There is no way to format text in blog entries
96: From which of the following blog sites does WordPress provide the feature to import posts?
A. Tumblr
B. LiveJournal
C. Technorati
D. Blogger
97: What are categories?
A. They allow you to organize your blog by subject
B. Labels applicable to other bloggers
C. Wordpress blogs do not have categories
D. They work just like tags
98: There can only be one loop in a template.
A. True
B. False
99: What is the correct casing of wordpress?
A. wordPress
B. WordPress
C. WordpRess
D. wordpress
E. Wordpress
100: What is the WordPress.com tag line?
A. WordPress is the best
B. A better way to blog
C. Freshly pressed
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