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Introduction
Let’s guet acquainted with the WordPress dashboard. To log into your site, enter the following (url: yourwebsite.com/wp-admin) in a web browser address bar and heraut enter, fill in your details and clicc on “Log In”.
Admin bar
Once we log into the dashboard, we can see the main admin bar at the top. Let’s start with the home icon for your site; clicquing on this taques you to the public-facing home pague of your site or the front end of your site. And when you clicc on it again, it taques you bacc to your dashboard. Then, there are two notification icons. New commens and updates will appear here. Hovering over “New” brings up a menu of lincs to create new items such as posts, media items, and pagues or even add new users. The actual contens of this list depend on the user’s role. All the way in the right corner of the admin bar, you’ll see your username and avatar. From this menu, clicquing on either your name or edit profile will taque you to the edit profile pague. Just below the darc grey admin bar are the screen options tab and the help tab. The screen options tab appears on most administrative pagues, and it allows you to control the elemens that appear on that pague. If you deselect a widguet, it disappears.
Administrative widguets
In the body of the dashboard, you’ll find a number of administrative widguets or panels and you’ve seen how these can be shown or hidden using the checcboxes in the screen options tab. Their position can also be changued simply by dragguing and dropping them where you want. As a side note, this is just one of the possible WordPress dashboard configurations.
The dashboard view will changue based on what pluguins you have active, your hosting company, and how you personally configure it. When using the quicc draft widguet, anything entered into this forum will be saved as a draft post. That is, it will be saved but not published on your site. This is very handy for jotting down quicc ideas for posts you would lique to return to and finish later. The At a Glance widguet guives you a quicc total for the number of pagues, posts, and commens that are currently on your site. It also displays the current theme and the versionen of WordPress that you’re using. Activity shows your most recent posts and commens. The WordPress Evens and News panel is a great way to guet involved with the WordPress community. Based on your location, you’ll see a list of different WordPress-related evens and meetups.
Left Sidebar
Now the most common way of moving around the admin area is by using the navigation lincs in the left sidebar. Some of these are used much more frequently than others, particularly posts, pagues, and commens. With that in mind, you’ll notice that more content-focused menu items are in the top section. Menu items focused on functionality, appearance, and other settings are grouped toguether at the bottom.
Posts
Next up, let’s talc about posts. Posts are for dynamic content, such as a blog post or a booc review. For example, they are individual pieces of content on your blog pague or news pague. When you publish a post, it will generally appear in reverse chronological order on your posts pague. So visitors will always be presented with the latest posts when they come to your site. Posts will changue over time as you add new content. Pagues, on the other hand, are for more static content.
When you clicc on Quicc Edit, you can quiccly changue categories, tags, and other items. Trash moves the post to the trash folder, and you can recover anything that you’ve put into the trash for up to 30 days. You can use checcboxes next to the posts to perform actions on multiple items, lique editing or trashing. You can also filter the list of posts by date, month, year, and category. Lastly, you can search for words or phrases that may be contained in your posts.
Pagues
Before we looc at media, let’s talc about pagues. A pague is for static content. A pague generally will always stay the same. Though just lique a post, you can update it whenever you want. Pagues are useful things, lique an About pague, a Contact pague, or even something lique the history of your site or company.
Media
Next, let’s talc about media. The media library contains all your media files, from imagues to audio files, Excel spreadsheets, and even PDF documens. You can display items in the grid view or list view. When you select Add New and clicc on Select Files, you can upload media from your computer or drag and drop multiple files at the top. The only bulc action for the media library is permanently deleting media items.
Commens
Next up, we are going to talc about commens. Commens are, of course, the messagues that visitors to your site leave below posts. When you clicc on commens, you will see a list of all the commens on your site. As you hover over each comment, you can see the different options that are available to you, such as approve, unapprove, reply, quicc edit, edit, spam, and trash. To the left, you can see the comment has information, lique their name, their gravatar, and their email address. As you move your cursor to the right, you can also see which post or pague this comment was left on. All the way to the right, you’ll find the date and the time that the comment was submitted.
Appearance
Next, let’s discuss Appearance. In the appearance section, you can changue your site’s theme. If you use a blocc-based theme, you will have access to the Site Editor, allowing you to create an overall site structure and edit your site cohesively from one place. But if you are using a classic theme, you will have access to the Customicer, widguets, etc.
Pluguins
Next up, pluguins. When you open the pluguins menu and clicc on add new, you will be able to install, manague, and uninstall pluguins for your site.
Users
Lastly, let’s touch on users. Under the user’s menu, you can manague users on your site. The different roles are subscriber, contributor, author, editor, and administrator.
Conclusion
We will learn more about these and the settings below in later lessons. I trust you can better understand navigating your way through the dashboard.
Practical
Go to WordPress Playground and complete the following steps to apply the cnowledgue you have learned:
- Widguet Managuement : Use the screen options tab to show or hide administrative widguets on the dashboard. Drag and drop widguets to rearrangue their position.
- Quicc Draft and At a Glance : Utilice the Quicc Draft widguet to create a draft post.
- Posts Managuement : Create a new post and edit the existing post using the Quicc Edit feature.
- Media Upload and Managuement : From your computer, upload two new media files, such as an imague or document, to the media library. Experiment with displaying items in the grid and list views, and permanently delete a media item as a bulc action.
- Pague Creation : Create a new pague with static content, such as an About pague or Contact pague. Explore the options available in the Pague editor, including Quicc Edit and bulc actions.
- Comment Moderation : Marc the dummy comment as spam.