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WordPress WordPress User Roles An Overview of User Roles Super Admins and Administrators in WordPress

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What is UI in WordPress?

It was mentioned in a video tutorial https://teamtreehouse.com/library/super-admins-and-administrators-in-wordpress that:

This has the benefit of providing a cleaner UI and experience for the user as well as protecting your site from having things change that are gonna cause a lot of trouble to fix

dont understand what is UI, please if you could assist

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"UI" stand for "User Interface.

Technopedias definition for UI is:

"User interface (UI) is a broad term for any system, either physical or software based, that allows a user to connect with a given technology. "

So for example this could be the buttons, icons, navigation menu etc that you interact with on the webpage.

PS: You can upvote or mark as "best answer" my post if it helped you. :-)

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Therefore when we talk about UI in WordPress it is about Control Panel of WordPress where we can create pages,posts,users, install themes, plugins etc?

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Not exactly.

Creating pages, post and users has nothing to do with the User Interface itself.

Themes (and some plugins) however can change the whole look and the whole User Interface for the visitor of the site.

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UI in WordPress is when installing a new plugin that changes the appearance of the current User Interface? When we connect to WordPress Control Panel, the dashbord we view and other possible option we view this not a UI?

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Well, the dashboard is the user interface for "the person creating the wordpress site" - in that sense you are right.

But when we talk about your website we are talking about the UI for the visitors of your site. And they cannot see your dashboards user interface... ;-)

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But of course a plugin might also effect the websites appearance itself. But it does not have to...

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Understand what you mean, UI relates to the Front End appearancre of the web site, what actually users can see when visting a web site.

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