WordPress Administration Basics

WordPress (WP), a remarkably easy blogging platform to use and extremely flexible once you know what you’re doing. Similar to any other blogging software application, if you’re a beginner, it can be a bit daunting out-of-the-box. WP offers excellent documentation at the WP Codex, but finding your way around maybe overwhelming.

In this article, you will have the basics in WP Administration, along with quick links to the relevant documentation.

Dashboard

Upon your first login to your WP Administration, you’ll land on the Dashboard panel. There’s plenty of useful information on this panel, but nothing to edit. Check here periodically, though, to keep up with new WP releases, news, and the latest activity on your blog.

Write

Overriding global settings in this panel is possible by such as turning off comments for a specific post, but most of the time, the only settings you’ll change here are for the post categories or post status. Take note that you can add new categories here; you don’t have to go to the Manage Categories subpanel.

Manage

You can manage your posts, pages, categories, comments, and files from this area.

If you want to set up a few pages right away. As a requirement for a standard blog, your blog should have an About page, providing basic information about your site and Privacy Policy page that conforms You’ll probably want a page for one or more of the following, too: Archives, Links, Privacy Policy, Sitemap. For complete instructions on setting up pages, see

Creating Individual Pages.

You can add category descriptions in the Categories subpanel. By default, the descriptions will appear when the mouse hovers over the category name. You can also nest categories by giving subcategories a parent in the Category parent popup menu.

No need to worry about the other subpanels here until you have comments to moderate. When the time comes, try to see Manage Comments subpanel and Awaiting Moderation subpanel.

You can edit files here, but its recommended using a separate editor for this but WP’s will do also.

Links

On the Add a link subpanel, you’ll see three sections: Basics, Link Relationship, and Advanced. Working with the Basics section, is pretty self-explanatory. The Advanced section lets you set a target like opening the link in a new page.It is recommended opening all links in new pages, even though it’s considered to be a poor practice. Instead of setting this here, though, you can install the External Links plugin that automatically adds the necessary tags to all of your links, not just the links you created.

While you’re on the Add a link subpanel, you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and drag Link This to your browser’s toolbar to create a shortcut for adding a link to the site currently displayed in your browser .

You’ll set up link categories on the Link Categories subpanel. There are several options here and which ones you use are a matter of personal preference.

If you’re setting up a new WP blog, but already have a list of links in a newsreader or another blog system, you may be able to import them in the Import Links subpanel. Export your links as an OPML file, then import them here. You can then edit or delete links in the Manage Links subpanel.

Appearance

You’ll manage your themes here. In addition to choosing a theme, you can edit the files in the Theme Editor subpanel, though I’d recommend using a separate application for editing. If your theme offers custom user options, you may find an additional subpanel when that theme is selected. If it supports widgets, you’ll also see a Sidebar Widgets subpanel.

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Plugins

List of installed plugins are on the Plugin Management subpanel. To install a plugin, you can search and install it or you just upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory. Then find it in your list of plugins and click the Activate plugin. You’ll find more resources in the WP Plugin Directory.

Users

You can go to Your Profile subpanel and enter your name, nickname, and contact information. Be sure to select a name in the Display name publicly as popup menu. This is the name that will be displayed as the author of your posts.

You may also want to change the your password be automatically created for you when you install WP. If you want to, you can add some biographical information in the About yourself field. There’s also an option to override the global visual rich editor settings.

If there will be other users beside yourself, you can add them at the Authors and Users subpanel. Most blogs are written by a single user.

Tools

These are set of handy functions that will enable you to import/export files, uploads and more..

Settings

You can manage the general settings for your blog here, as well as settings for Writing (posting), Reading (publishing and syndicating), Discussion (comments), Permalinks (URI structure), and other Miscellaneous settings. Some plugins also add subpanels to the Options panel.

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