Web Developer Strength Assessment

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Please try to answer all questions without searching the internet. Please be as concise as possible. If you don’t know the answer, that is ok — explain what you do know about the subject and continue on the remaining questions. It is perfectly acceptable to say you don’t know the answer.

WordPress
What's the best way, in your opinion, to modify an existing WordPress theme?
How would you write a query to show a list of posts from a CPT, grouped by taxonomy term?
How would you go about adding an additional script to a WordPress site?
Explain what hooks and filters are, how to use them and the difference between them.
If an admin were to lose their password and you did not have access to the wp-admin how would you reset their password for them (also assume that the password reset functionality is not working)?
How many default tables are in a vanilla WordPress install? Can you list them?
In which database table would you find the "WordPress Address (siteurl)"?

Server
What is the command to restart Apache?
How would you add a new SSH key to a linux server?
What do the commands CHMOD and CHOWN do?
What is a virtual host file and where is it located for Apache? for NGINX?
What are the steps to install an SSL certificate?

CSS and SASS
What is a mixin used for? Write an example mixin that sets font size, color and weight.



	@media (max-width: 640px) {

		padding: 0;

	}

What is the purpose of the above rule?



	p {

	    body.no-touch & {

	        display: none;

	    }

	}

Given the above rule, what would the compiled CSS look like?

Javascript
Write a function that will loop through a list of integers and print the index of each element after a 3 second delay.
What is debouncing?



	var fullname = 'John Doe';

	var obj = {

	   fullname: 'Jane Doe',

	   prop: {

	      fullname: 'Someone Else',

	      getFullname: function() {

	         return this.fullname;

	      }

	   }

	};



	console.log(obj.prop.getFullname());

	var test = obj.prop.getFullname;

	console.log(test());

What is the console output of the above script?

API
What is CORS and how do you resolve issues related to CORS?



	{ "name": "Smiley",

	  "age": 20,

	  "phone": { "888-123-4567", "888-765-4321" },

	  "email": "smiley@xyz.com",

	  "happy": true }

What is wrong with the above JSON object?

HTML
What is a polyfill?
SVG vs PNG vs JPG — when should you use each?
When is it appropriate to use a button vs an anchor?



<!doctype html>

<html lang="en" dir="ltr">

	<head>

		<meta name="keywords" content="" />

		<title>My Account</title>

	</head>

	<body>

		<header>

			<h2>My Website</h2>

		</header>

		<section>

			<h1>My Title</h1>

			<img src="pardon-our-dust.jpg">

		</section>

		<footer>

			<p>

				copyright 2019

			</p>

			<a href="mailto:contact@website.com" target="_blank">

				<div class="icon contact">Mail</div>

			</a>

		</footer>

	</body

</html>

What is wrong with this html?

Web Developer Strength Assessment

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Instructions

WordPress

Server

CSS and SASS

Javascript

API

HTML