WordPress Admin Panel

 WordPress Admin Panel

WP Admin Panel

Now you have finished installing WordPress. Lets get familiar with the admin panel. WordPress admin panel is the place where you make every single change of your website. lets Start from the top left corner of the admin panel.
If you are not logged in to the wp admin panel, go to:www.example.com/wp-login.php

 The Dashboard

This is where you can get a quick look of what’s going on with your site. It will allow you to see posts, pages, recent tags and comments, and your theme  and wordpress version. The dashboard will give you a current summary of the site.

Posts

Posts are the content pages of your blog. When you want to add new post to the blog, simply go to posts and click Add New. You can categorize your posts. As an example, think you start a blog about phones. Now you can create 3 categories iphone, android, and blackberry. When you publish a post about iphones you publish that post under iphones category. You can also set up comment on/off, show the author. These options can be customized for each post.

Media

This is where you upload images and video to the site. You can upload them from here or you can upload directly from edit post/page area when you creating a post or page.

Links

Use link feature to create new links and link categories to use them on your website using the sidebar widgets. For example, you want to show 5 of your posts on the right side bar under the name “My Favorites”.

Click Add New under links. Enter the name of your post. Add the web address of the post you want to show. Click Add New Category and enter My Favorites to the New Category Name. Now add other 4 posts in the same way and assign all of them to the My Favorites category.

After you finished go to Appearance  –> Widgets and  add your My Favorite Link to your sidebar. In this way you can create a new link category and show them on your website’s sidebar.

Pages

This is where you add and edit your web pages. You can also add Permalink, create slug, on/off comments, and change page attributes (page order, template, parent).

Comments

Comments area allows you to see, edit, and delete user/visitor comments.

Appearance

This is where you customize your website’s appearance.

• Themes
  • Build the first impression of your site or blog. You can install different themes and manege them.
• Widgets
  • Widgets are used to customized the sidebars of your website. This drag and drop feature easily allows you to display various categories on the sidebars. You can add a search button to your sidebar using widgets. Not only the search button, add a calender, recent comments, recent posts, categories, RSS, links, text/HTML, and  many more.
• Menus
  • Menus allows you to create custom menus to your website. You can create custom menus as you like. You can create more menus but it depends on your theme. If your theme support 3 custom menus you can create 3 custom menus to your site. You can decide what pages appear on the menu and what pages not. You can also decide where your menus appear on the website (top of the page, before the logo, on footer column, or other area your theme supports).
• Editor
  • This is the place you can edit your theme manually. You can edit almost everything of your web pages using the editor. Lets say you want to edit the footer of the website, then you will have to edit the footer.php to change the footer.

Plugins

There are thousands of plugins available on the wordpress.org to download. Plugins are little tools that give your website a additional features. To search for plugin click Add New. Once you installed a new plugin you may have to activate the plugin.  Use plugins to add slide show, facebook like button, contact us form, user ranking system, improve performance, and many more.

Users

If your site/blog has more than one authors or editors, this feature can be useful. You can add users and set permissions here.

Tools

You can import your posts or comments from another system using tools option. If you are using Blogger and need to move from Blogger use Import feature under the Tools to import your content from Blogger. If you consider moving from WordPress and want to move your posts and comments use Export feature.

Settings

This is where you setup your website settings. Set title of the site and description, time and date format. Set a static page to your website. Setup comment settings, Permalink Settings, and many more.