1. Authors and Users: This link will show you all of the current users of your site, their username, name, email, role and number of posts attributed to them.
2. Add New: Allows you to add a new user. When you create a new user, you will also create their password, and you will have the option to email that password to them. Be sure to choose that option so the new user knows how to login to their account.
3. Your Profile: This page allows you to change the information listed in your profile, such as your name, nickname, bio. This is also where you can change your email address and password.

It’s possible that you don’t want every user of your site to be able to access your ENTIRE site. Here are the different roles you can allow your users to have:

1. Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration feature
2. Editor – Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
3. Author – Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
4. Contributor – Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts
5. Subscriber – Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters, etc.

1. Installed: The plugins installed on your site are listed on this screen. You also choose to activate plugins here, deactivate or delete them, as well. Also, sometimes a plugin’s author will update it, and if you need to upgrade your version, you’ll see a notice here telling you to do that.
2. Add new:  Just like the themes, you can search for plugins approved by the WordPress team.
3. Editor: Like the theme editor, this allows to edit the CODE which makes your plugins work. If you know how to edit that, you probably didn’t need this e-book.

Later, I will show you the top 10 plugins you should install on your site when you are setting up shop.

Widgets: Widgets are drag and drop boxes you can add to your sidebars, and sometimes your footer (depending on your theme). Popular widgets include a listing of your pages, categories, recent posts or comments, monthly archives of your posts, links, a search field, and your tags. To put a widget on your sidebar, click on Widgets, then drag the one you want to the “Sidebar” list on the right side of your screen. Then, click on title of the widget on the sidebar to adjust any particular settings for that widget. For example, the “Categories” widget asks if you want to show the categories as a list, or as a dropdown menu; if you want to show post counts (the number of posts attributed to each category), and if you want to show the hierarchy of categories (if you have sub-categories, this will show them, too). To remove a widget, simply drag it back, or click remove.

Editor: This allows you to edit the CODE behind your themes. For the purpose of this ebook, I’m simply going to say, don’t change anything here.

Add New Themes: Like I said, there are thousands of themes to choose from. You can find and activate new FREE themes here. All of the themes listed in the WordPress directoy have been approved by WordPress for use – they don’t have tricks up their geek sleeves and are safe to use.

1. Search: allows you to search the WordPress theme directory by colors, columns, width, features, and subject. You can also specify particular terms you’d like to search for, such as pink, feminine, or cancer. There may already be a great theme for a breast cancer site, and you can search for it here.
2. Upload: When you’re getting started, using the free theme directory is the way to go. However, not EVERY theme that exists is listed in this directory. Some themes, like the ones you pay for, won’t be. If you have purchased one of those, then you’ll have a file you’ve downloaded from the site you purchased it from that you’ll need to install on your site. You can do that by clicking the “Upload” link, finding the file on your computer and then clicking Install.
3. Featured: This will show you the themes that WordPress is fond of lately. In many ways, these are the best of the best FREE themes.
4. Newest: Um, shows the newest themes approved by WordPress
5. Recently Updated: See – I told you this was pretty simple. Displays the most recently updated themes approved by WordPress.

Once you have found a theme you like, you will see the links to “Install” or “Preview” it under the theme title. Previewing it will show you what the theme looks like with your existing pages/posts and widgets. Installing it will pop up a small window that shows a button to “install now.” Click that and then you will see a screen that gives you the options to again Preview, Activate or Return to Theme Installer. If you would like to make this theme THE theme for your site, choose Activate.

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Remember, you can look at all of the themes installed on your site by choosing the Appearance>Themes tab.

1. Edit> Allows you to edit existing pages.
2. Add New> Allow you to add new pages. Are you seeing now how this works?

1. Edit> This allows you to edit all of the existing links you’ve created.
2. Add New> Adds new links.
3. Link Categories> You can create categories of links, and here’s where you do that. For example, you might create a category of Breast Cancer Research, and link to sites about the latest breast cancer news. Maybe another category For Survivors, which includes links to sites offering wigs, prosthetics, clothing, etc… You don’t HAVE to create categories, but you can.

1. 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.
2. Add New> You can upload pictures, videos, songs, documents and other files while you’re writing a post or page, but you can also upload them here, directly into your library. Then, when you’re writing your post or page, you don’t have to upload them again, rather you can just grab them from your library.

You will see on the left side of the screen a sidebar with the following tabs, each of which is expandable by click on the title of the tab [insert images of expanded lists]. Most of the sub-menus are self-explanatory, but we’ll touch lightly on them in this post of the series, “Configuring WordPress”. As we do, I will use examples from an imaginary website about breast cancer.