This is meant as a general dictionary of commonly used phrases for clients to better understand things being referred to. It is not for coding terms or developer terms.
Term or Word | Definition | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AdminCP | The AdminCP is your Administrative Control Panel and is where you'll manage your entire site. It contains all of the settings and options to use when setting up and maintaining your website. See how to log into the admincp |
| 2 | Blocks | Blocks are containers on your website that hold the content or showcase features (such as featured users, recent logins, birthdays). Blocks can be manipulated, removed, and added within the Block Manager in your AdminCP. Each theme has set block positions (locations). See creating or editing blocks |
| 3 | Build | We refer to a Build as a maintenance release as part of a current Version. It is generally something such as 4.1.1 build 3. When we release a minor build like that, you would only need to upload the files via FTP to your server. No upgrade routine is necessary for these. |
| 4 | Cache | The site's cache is a set of files that are small dumps of the database in most cases. They can also be processed pieces of information put together for later use. By caching content in this way the script saves resources and improves your site's performance. See clearing cache |
| 5 | CMS | Content Management System. This is the same term used for many different website scripts. It is where you manage the static Pages (such as terms of use, privacy, about), site Blocks and Menus. |
| 6 | Debug | Debug is a term used in relation to troubleshooting your website for issues. See enabling debug |
| 7 | FTP | File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is the process of uploading files to or downloading files from your server. Typically, tools such as Filezilla, FlashFXP, CyberDuck and many others are used to transfer the files to or from the server. |
| 8 | Favicon | The favicon is the tiny icon you see in the browser tab and most sites have a special one made to match their logo. The size is normally 16 x 16. See changing your site's favicon |
| 9 | Flavor | A flavor is part of a theme that serves the site's design and formats it with fonts, colors, positions of content blocks, icons, etc. A theme can have several flavors to choose from. Each flavor can change the theme to look a little different than its default look. |
| 10 | Theme | A theme is comprised of various files that create the look of your website. It will typically have the HTML files, CSS styling, extra blocks (to showcase content, add sliders, etc), Javascript if used. Examples are our Neutron and Bootstrap themes. |
| 11 | Version | Version is the number you will see referred to in relation to different releases. Major version numbers would be V1, V2, V3 and our new V4. We need numbers mainly for coding reasons but it's also used when troubleshooting a site. It's always good to know the major version you are using (V3, V4, etc) and also the minor version, for example, V4.1.2 or V4.2.0. Each version when released does require you to run an upgrade routine in order to get any fixes or improvements. |