{"id":9,"date":"2025-10-27T02:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/?p=9"},"modified":"2025-10-27T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:05:44","slug":"wordpress-anatomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/wordpress-anatomy\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Anatomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wordpress-anatomy\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But when we\u2019re talking about what a WordPress site actually is, we\u2019re talking about a series of core files, theme files, and plugin files. This is also known as the anatomy of WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Core Files<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>At the core, WordPress is a series of PHP files developed by volunteers around the world. So when your hear someone talking about \u201cWordPress Core\u201d you\u2019ll know what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The core files provide the key functionality of WordPress. The core functions in these files are used by themes and plugins to customize WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Theme Files<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Theme files control the look and feel of your site. They use special template files like header, footer, and sidebar to generate pages of your site. So if you request a post, you\u2019ll get the single blog post template. If you request a page, you\u2019ll get the page template.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plugin Files<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Plugin files work similarly to theme files, but they let you introduce special functions into any site regardless of theme. Like special apps that perform specific functions, anyone can write a plugin and make it available to the world as long as they follow the WordPress coding standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"814\" src=\"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/julycdi-1024x814.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/julycdi-1024x814.webp 1024w, https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/julycdi-300x238.webp 300w, https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/julycdi-768x610.webp 768w, https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/julycdi.webp 1285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But when we\u2019re talking about what a WordPress site actually is, we\u2019re talking about a series of core files, theme files, and plugin files. This is also known as the anatomy of WordPress. Core Files At the core, WordPress is a series of PHP files developed by volunteers around the world. So when your hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamtos.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}