WordPress Tutorial
Once you successfully completed installing WordPress to your Domain, next step is customization of the website with various menu tools in the back-end of WordPress dashboard area.
WordPress Dashboard Area:
We can login the WordPress customization administrative area or back end of your website using the username and password you created while installing the WordPress.
URL to login WordPress Dashboard area:
http://yourdomainname.ext/wp-admin
For Example:
http://everestvision.com/wp-admin
Once you logged in, you are on dashboard area or back-end of your website to edit, customize, enhance, design and manage your website.
On the left hand side of the WordPress Customization dashboard screen we find a various menu items to perform administrative functions.
Some of the main various menu items are as follows:
Dashboard
Home:
It’s a section, where we can see the recent activity at your site
Update:
We can update new version of WordPress, Plugins and Themes.
Posts
Add New:
It’s a tool to add New Post.
All Posts:
We can view, edit or delete the previously posted post.
Categorize:
Categorizing the posts into groups and sub groups
Tags:
Assigning keywords to each post.
It allows us to add, change and delete tags.
Media
Library:
In this section we can view, edit or delete the previously uploaded Media items such as Images, Audio, Video and much more.
Add New:
It is a menu where you can add all Media items.
Pages
Add New:
In this tool we can add new pages.
All Pages:
We can view, edit or delete previously created pages.
Comments
It’s a feedback or thoughts section from the readers regarding the posts.
Appearance
This is the tool where we can change the look of your website.
We will look into some of the main tools
Themes:
It is a tool to add or change the themes
Customize:
It is a place where you can customize Theme Settings, Page Template Setting, Site Identify, Themes Design, Menus, Home Page Settings, etc.
Widgets:
This tool is to add, edit or delete information at predefined areas such as footer, sidebar or header.
Menus:
With this tools we can able to create and edit Menu Structure of Pages, Posts, Testimonials, Custom Links, Categories, etc.,
Home Page:
It is a section where we can customize the Home page.
Plugins
It is a place where we can install, activate, update, delete or deactivate the features to your website.
Users
In this section we can able to manage the accounts of your website users.