The Dashboard is the hub of your new website. It’s where you can administer everything about your website, including where you can add new pages and posts, change the look of your site, look at your site’s statistics, and lots more! You will see on the left side of the screen a sidebar with the [...]
WordPress dashboard: Posts
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This is an overview of the Posts tab on your WordPress dashboard. Edit> Allows you to edit your existing posts. Add New> Allows you to add a new post. Post Tags> Tags are one or two word descriptions of what the content of your post is about. For example, if I wrote a post about [...]
WordPress dashboard: Users
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Your website can have multiple users. You and your wife. You and your business partner. You and your classmate. You and everyone even! Two, three, forty – it doesn’t matter how many people you want to give permission to participate in creating your site, you can add them here. Authors and Users: This link will [...]
WordPress Dashboard: Media
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This is an overview of the Media tab on your WordPress dashboard. Library> This is the collection of all of the pictures, videos, songs, documents and other files you have used or will use on a page or post. Add New> You can upload pictures, videos, songs, documents and other files while you’re writing a [...]
WordPress dashboard: Plugins
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Plugins extend what your site can do for you. What do you want to do? Create forms for your guests to fill out? There’s a plugin for that. Add links on your site so your guests can share your posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more? There’s a plugin for that. List and manage your [...]
