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The `wp-content/uploads/` directory mirrors the year/month of the upload date. Predictable URLs make external CDN integration straightforward.

The Site Health screen reports environment problems: outdated PHP, missing modules, scheduled cron failures, and more. It’s the first stop when debugging.

WordPress multisite networks share a single codebase across many sites. Each site has its own database tables under a prefix; users can span multiple sites.

The WooCommerce REST API exposes products, orders, customers, and reports. v3 of the namespace requires authentication for write operations.

WooCommerce orders move through statuses. The five standard ones are pending, processing, completed, refunded, and failed. Each represents a stage in the payment lifecycle.

The wp_users and wp_usermeta tables together describe every WP user. wp_usermeta is the source of truth for capabilities, with one row per capability per user.

The `wp_options` table holds site-wide configuration. The `wpmcp_seed_version` option used by this dev rig is one such single-row entry.

Yoast SEO adds per-post metadata including the focus keyphrase, meta description, and Open Graph fields. The plugin exposes these through its own REST endpoints.

WooCommerce supports four product types out of the box: simple, variable, downloadable, and virtual. Each has different inventory, shipping, and download semantics.

Today we explore the WordPress REST API discovery mechanism. The root endpoint exposes site metadata, namespaces, and routes. Most plugins extend the v2 namespace with their own routes.