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The Basics

WordPress the most widely used CMS (Content Management Systems) in the world! Its familiar interface is well documented. See https://codex.wordpress.org/ for an exhaustive description and searchable knowledge base.

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org – which is this?

There is a lot of understandable confusion about “Who is WordPress?” and are they hosting this site? This website is a stand-alone installation of the open-source WordPress CMS, downloaded from WordPress.org. It is hosted on a private server that Kidney Kitchen arranged specially for it.

WordPress.com, on the other hand, is an on-line blogging platform run by the WordPress organization where you can set up a free or paid website. They offer free hosting plus lots of other paid services. This is not that. We have a lot of special plugins and custom functionality built into this site that is not available on WordPress.com.

Special Features

  • Beaver Builder – This website uses a special interface for adding and editing content read more about it here.
  • Recipes and Sponsors – these custom post types have special fields and can be displayed in different formats throughout the site. These are created by a custom plugin and are documented in this docs section.
  • SEO – the Yoast SEO plugin gives suggestions for how to optimize each page, post or custom post type for search engine placement. more documentation here.

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