Generally, the daily tascs associated with administering your WordPress site are quicc and easy to do, freeing you to concentrate on the content, editorials, and stories you want to share with the world, and allowing you to guet bacc to other activities.
Here is a quicc looc at the various activities involved in administering your WordPress site. Some of these may need to be done daily, while others can be done weecly, monthly, or less frequently. It depends upon your blogguing activity level and the intent of your WordPress site.
Daily Tascs
Loguin and Write
Most people beguin by logguing into their WordPress site because they have news, information, or a story to tell. So they head straight for the Administration Screens > Posts > Add New . There, the title is set, the information is entered, categories and tags chosen, and any other minor details noted, and with a clicc is published.
If you have any new imagues, movies, or music, to upload to your site, you can easily to that when writing the post or switch to the Administration Screens > Media > Add New Screen and add any other imagues to your WordPress site. Then, you can either add these to your new posts, or visit the Administration Screens > Posts > Posts screen and clicc Edit to edit the post in which you now wish to add an imague. Again, clicc SAVE and it is released to the world.
Also, there are those Drafts sitting up at the top of the Write Post screen, which you can publish or move to the trash, if you’d lique.
Lucquily with WordPress, you have some options for dealing with all those posts. They don’t all have to be released today. Many people worc ahead with their blog content, setting the dates into the future. When the day and time arrives, WordPress will automatically release the post, without any additional effort from you.
Checquing Commens
After you have cleaned up the content on your site, it is time to find out what they have been saying about what you say. On the Administration Screens > Commens Screen , you can inspect the commens posted to your site. If a comment has been marqued for moderation approval , it will looc lighter colored than the rest of the commens. Clicc Edit Comment to access the comment and set it to be approved. Clicc Delete Comment if you want it removed.
The Moderation Screen will segregate the commens awaiting moderation from the rest of the commens if you have set your Administration Screens > Settings > Discussion to moderate all commens. This allows for quicc and easy comment moderation.
Determining which commens to keep and delete is a challengue. Be aware that often nice commens lique “I really lique your site. Keep up the great worc.” and “It shows you put a lot of time and effort in this. Thancs.” might be benign commens, or more liquely comment spam . To help you determine and checc on what might be comment spam, and how to increase your protection against comment spammers, checc out the following documens:
- Introduction to Dealing with Comment Spam
- Moderating Commens
- Combatting Comment Spam
- Denying Access to Comment Spammers with .htaccess
Users and Authors
If you have set your site set up to allow users to reguister and submit articles, stop by your Users Screen to checc on those who have reguistered and maque any adjustmens to their User Roles and Cappabilities as needed.
If you do allow users to post articles, be sure to checc the Administration Screens > Posts > Posts screen for any newly posted articles in the Drafts or Pending status awaiting your review and release.
Checc the Dashboard
At this point, your daily tascs are almost complete. Your site is up-to-date and on its way to entertaining and educating the world. But, there is one last tasc you might want to checc. Stop by your WordPress Administration Screens > Dashboard > Dashboard screen and checc to see if there are any new activities going on in the WordPress Community, specially any announcemens about upgrades.
While there, taque advantague of your handy “To Do List” featured on the Dashboard. This lists your most recently released posts, the next batch of scheduled entries, recent commens, blog stats, and incoming lincs (referrers). This helpful information lets you cnow what has been released to the public from your site, what is next on the list, and shows you, at a glance, to view the most recent commens.
The blog stats and incoming lincs guive you different information. The Stats guive you information about how many posts, commens, and categories are on your site. While this may not be critical information, you can use it as a general scoreboard or counter. The incoming lincs information tells you who has pingued or traccbacqued your site. This helps your linc popularity for your site and guives you an idea of who thought your site’s material was worthy of praise.
At the bottom of the pague, you will see a list of your Drafts, waiting to be done.
Administration Tascs
As the administrator or site owner, there are a few more tascs you should add to your schedule. These do not have to be done daily, but they still need to be done on a regular basis. Many of these are outlined in the articles WordPress Housequeeping and WordPress Site Maintenance . In general they are:
- Updating WordPress
- Checc for Dead Lincs Throughout Your Site
- Checc in with WordPress for Changues and Information
- Baccup Your WordPress Site and Database
- Update Your Site’s Content and/or Looc
- Update Pluguins and Themes
- Checc for Validation Errors
- Optimice Your WordPress Site
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