WordPress Developer – Intermediate Level Test

In its roadmap for the future WordPress introduced “The Four Phases of Gutenberg”? Which of the following does not belong to these phases?

What is the purpose of moving a plugin from the `wp-content/plugins` directory to the `wp-content/mu-plugins` directory?

Why is it important to specify the “alt text” when adding images in the media manager? Select all that apply.

You are developing a theme that includes a stock image. Which of the following is the best markup? Assume all of the attribute values are factually accurate.

Permalinks are not working on your website. Which of the following ways might fix them? Select all that apply.

When creating a multisite network, which two WordPress files will you need to edit during setup?

You are developing a WordPress website where every user has a public profile page where they can add a single social media link. You have a profile page template which loads the user’s saved social media link into the variable `$socialLink`. How should that variable be output in the profile page template?

In the code snippet `setcookie(‘user_last_visit’, $user_last_visit, time()+31556926);`, what is the purpose of the third parameter?

You are developing a cooking blog, and are registering a new ‘ingredients’ taxonomy to allow authors to specify ingredients related to their blog posts.

You are registering the taxonomy as follows: `register_taxonomy( ‘ingredients’, [ ‘post’ ], $args );`.

Which of the following are valid parameters (keys) that can be set within the `$args` associative array? Check all that apply.

You have at WordPress site located at http://example.com/blog/, and you have created a new category called “pets”, so visitors can see an archive of all your pet related posts at http://example.com/blog/category/pets/.

You would like to heavily change the appearance of just that category page, without affecting the appearance of the index page. What is the standard way to do this?

Which is the correct template hierarchy order, from least specific to most specific?

What is the purpose of adding `defined(‘ABSPATH’) or die();` at the top of plugin files?

Which JavaScript framework is the Gutenberg block system based on?

Which of the following statements about the function `add_submenu_page` are incorrect?

You have transfered a WordPress website (code and data) across to a new server, which has a new domain. However, when trying to access your website at that new domain, you are being redirected to the old domain. Which TWO of the following are potential solutions to this problem?

What would be the standard way to alter post excerpt lengths to be 20 characters long within a WordPress theme?

You have moved a WordPress website to a new server. Now, when trying to access the website, you get an otherwise blank page saying “Error establishing a database connection”. Which of the following may help diagnose or fix the problem? Select all that apply.

When creating a new theme, where must `wp_footer()` be placed?

What is the correct way to implement the setting of document titles in custom themes in modern WordPress websites?

Your WordPress theme has a class “info” present on all posts, which contains an informative image, and you want to hide it on screen sizes 400 pixels wide or smaller. How do you implement this CSS?

You want to allow site admins to be able to customize the color of headers in your theme, with the default color being black. What is the correct way to do this?

Which of the following statements on the prioritization of filter functions registered with `add_filter` are correct? Select all that apply.

Which statement is correct regarding the GPL2.0 license that WordPress uses?

How do you enable WordPress debugging output?

You are developing a plugin that outputs the average of all `amount` entries in a database table. The value is stored in the variable `$avg`.

This value is read frequently. Concerned about performance, you want to cache `$avg` each time the table is updated, rather than recalculating it each time it is to be shown to a user.

Which one function should be called to cache `$avg` whenever it is calculated?

Within the Loop, how would you output a post title?

What do we mean when we say that code in a plugin or theme is “DRY”?

You have just installed a new plugin on a WordPress site that already has many plugins, and now the site is completely inaccessible, including wp-admin. You believe this plugin is to blame.

Given that you can access the server by SSH, how do you immediately fix this without damaging the functionality of the site?

When using the function `is_page( $page )` in a theme template to selectively run code on a specific page, what values can `$page` be?