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1.   Describe deployment types There are Four primary deployment types used for hosting websites across the internet, for each I will give a brief description & my own understanding of them. Shared hosting is the most popular form of hosting, this is primarily used for websites with low traffic. All websites located on the same shared server share the same IP address and bandwidth. VPS hosting is the median between shared hosting and dedicated hosting, your websites files still live within the same server as other websites although with this plan you get your own IP address and a set amount of dedicated resources. This plan also allows more control over your websites from the root up but can be more difficult for a beginner to operate Used for eCommerce, business sites & blogs with high traffic. Dedicated hosting is the premium choice for website hosting and is reserved for those who require the highest form of security & resources to...

1. Describe plugin management as it is implemented in the framework. Below is the plugin manager page, plugins are an extremely useful utility in WordPress with their being thousands of option to tailor to your websites niche attributes & needs. Many plugins can live within your website, activated or deactivated depending on if they are currently needed, overloading with plugins can slow your website down although there are plugins that counteract this! Pictures below is the add plugins page, I have highlighted some of the key features of this page, with thousands of plugins to browse it can be a little daunting to navigate through this area but if you follow the plugins with top user reviews combined with a high amount of downloaded it is unlikely you will go wrong, further research is advised though! Adding a plugin is as simple as going to this page, locating the plugin you desire via the search & sort features, installin...

1. Describe media management as it is implemented in the framework.   I started looking into the default media manager for WordPress which is displayed in the screenshot above, I found it very easy to navigate and upload the pictures I had collected for my site. It retains rather simple functionality, you can search, bulk select, sort via date added or media types. The main purpose of this tool is to store media items in the same folder your website lives in for convenient usage. For example if you had your website hosted on a cloud server you could upload your media items to your media manager & access them from anywhere you can login to the admin page. Describing this to a customer I would use a more real world analogy such as: "Storing media in the media manager is similar to keeping a surplus of stock stored out the back of the shop rather than having to order in every time you run out of something on the shelf" ...