This article continues our discussion from last week, where we began to provide you with a Glossary of WordPress Terms.
This week we will review the WordPress Admin Panel, which is the list of menu items that appear down the left hand side in the admin area of your site. In simple terms, your Admin Panel is where you manage your website on a day-to-day basis, only you and those you trust will have access to this.
To get to the Admin Panel you need to login to the administration area of your website. Just append “/wp-login.php/ to the end of your homepage URL. For example if http://mywebsite.com was your home page URL, you would type http://mywebsite.com/wp-login.php in the address bar to access it. You will need a user name and password to login.
The first entry on the Admin Panel is for the Dashboard. This gives you an overview of the recent activity on your website as well as what is happening in the WordPress Community as a whole. It also provides you with quick access to edit or add content to your website.
Below the Dashboard on the Admin Panel, there are various Sub-Panels which give your further options to manage your website.
Posts – A post is a piece of content displayed in chronological order that can be categorized and displayed with other posts. If you use your website for blogging then you will need the Posts for your blog entries. To add this article to our website so that you can view it, we entered it in to the Posts section.
Media – If you want to insert pictures, videos or files into your website you can directly upload them here.
Links – If you want to add an external link to your website, perhaps your favorite website or resource, then you can add it here.
Pages – Unlike Posts, Pages are static. They are not stored in chronological order or categorized, they are usually accessed via the Navigation (or Menu) bar, though this is not essential. Examples of pages are the About Page, Contact Us, Our Services etc.
Comments – When someone comments on your Posts their comment will appear here. You have the option to approve or delete these comments.
Appearance – If you want to customize your website’s appearance you need to go here. You can upload a new theme, add widgets, customize the menu and more advance users can edit the CSS code and PHP files.
Plugins – If you want to add, upload, modify or delete a plugin this is where it can be done. See our article Understanding Plugins: How they Function in WordPress for further information on what exactly a Plugin is.
Users – Here you can add other people as administrators, editors, authors, contributors or subscribers so they have permission to carry out certain activities your the site. If you are an Administrator, you can also revoke the access of others from here too.
Tools - You will find here other tools that run on your website. Sometimes when you install a plugin the options of the plugin appear in this section.
Settings – You can do a lot of things here, such as set your website’s privacy, limit the number of posts, change your website name and tagline, and choose what page to display as the front page of your site and a lot more.
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