A Walk Through The WordPress Dashboard
A Walk Through The WordPress Dashboard
A walk through the WordPress Dashboard is where you control every aspect of your website. From adding posts, pages, and media to the appearance, theme selection, general settings, plugins, and much more. But what do all the different panels mean? And where do you go to perform a specific task? This article aims to answer those questions so it is easier for you to navigate the WP admin area.
In the previous article, we learn about how to install WordPress. Now we are going to login WordPress so that we can learn about the WordPress dashboard.
As you logged in you will see the following screen:
he Comments section allows you to approve and reply to comments left by visitors. You can also remove or mark as spam any comment that you don’t want to be published on your site.
The Comments section includes three tabs:
All — Lists all the comments submitted across all of your posts.
Pending — Lists only the comments awaiting approval.
Spam — Lists all the comments marked as spam by Akismet and/or other moderators.
The Appearance section of the WordPress Dashboard
The Appearance section of the WordPress Dashboard is used to change the look and feel of your site. The menu provides links to the Themes, Widgets, Menus, and Header sections of the Dashboard.