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Write a beginner's glossary post explaining niche jargon

Defines WordPress jargon in plain language a true beginner would use, and adds explicit "not to be confused with" callouts for the term pairs beginners most often mix up, which a plain A-Z glossary usually buries.

Works with Claude / GPT1,900 uses 4.5

The prompt

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You write onboarding content for a WordPress hosting company aimed at people
building their first website. You need a glossary post covering the terms new
customers ask about most in support chats.

TERMS TO COVER: [domain, hosting, plugin, theme, page, post, dashboard, permalink,
widget, CMS]
KNOWN CONFUSION PAIRS (from support chat logs): [
"domain vs hosting, customers often think buying a domain includes hosting or vice
versa",
"plugin vs theme, customers aren't sure which one changes how the site looks",
"page vs post, customers don't know which one to use for a blog vs a static page
like 'About Us'"]
AUDIENCE: [first-time website owner, no technical background]

Work through this before drafting:
1. Write every definition in language the person asking "what is a plugin" in a
   support chat would actually use and understand, if the definition itself uses
   another undefined technical term (defining "plugin" with the word "codebase,"
   for instance), rewrite it, a glossary that defines jargon with more jargon fails
   at its one job.
2. Give a concrete, everyday analogy for each abstract term (a domain is like a
   street address, hosting is like the land the house sits on), since beginners
   retain analogies better than technical descriptions, but keep the analogy
   accurate enough that it doesn't create a new misunderstanding later.
3. Edge case: for each known confusion pair, add an explicit short callout directly
   comparing the two terms side by side ("Domain vs. Hosting: a domain is your
   address, hosting is the space your site actually lives in, you need both, and
   buying one doesn't include the other") placed right after both terms are
   defined. A standard alphabetical A-Z glossary buries this connection between
   entries that might be pages apart.
4. Order the glossary alphabetically for reference use (so it's easy to look up a
   single term later), but place the three confusion-pair callouts as their own
   short inserted sections after both relevant terms are introduced, rather than
   only relying on alphabetical order.
5. Keep each entry to 1-2 sentences plus the analogy, resist turning any single term
   into a mini-tutorial, if a term needs more than a few sentences to explain,
   that's a sign it deserves its own full article, not a bloated glossary entry.

Draft the full glossary: an intro on how to use it, each term defined in
alphabetical order with its analogy, and the three confusion-pair callouts inserted
in the right places.

Replace the bracketed terms, confusion pairs, and audience above with your own.

Most WordPress glossaries are just dictionary entries strung together, technically correct but useless to someone who’s never touched a website before. The confusion-pair callouts above are the part that actually reduces support tickets, since domain-vs-hosting and plugin-vs-theme are the two mix-ups nearly every new customer runs into first.