WordPress All-in-One For Dummies
Explore BookThe WordPress dashboard
Menu | Description |
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Dashboard | Find basic information and statistics for your site, as well as information from the WordPress Development Site and other sites run by those involved with WordPress development or resources. |
Posts | Write new posts and edit previous ones. Create categories to organize your posts by topic; upload images; create post excerpts; send trackbacks; manage custom fields. |
Media | View all media files you’ve uploaded to your site, including images, audio, and video. Upload and manage new media files with the built-in media uploader. |
Pages | Write and publish new static pages for your site, edit or delete previously published pages, and assign pages to custom page templates. |
Comments | Manage comments here by viewing, editing, or deleting them; also manage your comment moderation queue and comment/trackback spam. |
Appearance | Manage your WordPress themes by viewing them, activating them, and editing them using the site editor. Use and create block patterns. |
Plugins | View a listing of plugins installed in your WordPress site. Find new plugins, and install, activate, deactivate, upgrade, and edit them. |
Users | Manage your users and subscribers and edit your own profile. |
Tools | Import data into your site from another content management platform (such as Blogger, Typepad, or Movable Type) or export your current site data into a backup file. Upgrade your WordPress software to the latest version using the auto-upgrade feature. |
Settings | Set the general options for your site, and find settings for posts, RSS feed, discussion options, privacy, and permalinks. |
WordPress content types
Menu | Description |
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Posts | Articles that get written and published to your site — posts are included as part of your archived site. |
Pages | Static, individual pages do not get published and archived as part of the site on your site; rather are used as standalone pages to publish items like an “About Me” page. |
Categories | File your blog posts into different topics. |
Tags | Define micro-categories for your posts by using tags to define extended keywords to help your readers locate posts on your site relevant to the topic they want to read about. |
Images and Galleries | Upload photos or images and create photo galleries, or a portfolio of images. |
Media files | Upload audio files for podcasting, or video files for video publishing. Even upload files like PDFs or Microsoft Word documents to provide downloadable content, like e-books or manuals. |
Custom Post Types | Create different methods of posting niche content types on your site, like a photo gallery, video gallery, or a repository of reviews for things like movies, books, and music (just to name a few of many examples). |
Custom Post Formats | Create customized display of different post formats like photos, quotes, posts, links, videos, and so on. |
Custom Fields | Use custom fields to attach different post metadata to individual posts and pages, like your current mood, what you’re currently listening to or your current local weather. |
WordPress resources
Name | Description |
Offers thousands of downloads that let you do almost anything you can imagine — and you can imagine quite a lot, can’t you? | |
Lets you choose from hundreds of themes to manage the look and functionality of your home page. | |
Use WordPress Documentation to tap into the encyclopedia of WordPress knowledge. | |
This section of the official WordPress website gives you the latest news and notes on all things WordPress. | |
Lets you post questions, answers, and comments for other WordPress users who are using the hosted/commercial version of WordPress.com. | |
Post your questions and obtain answers from the vast WordPress community for users of the self-hosted WordPress.org software. |
Designing a website with WordPress designers
Name / URL | Description |
Cutting edge, custom WordPress design and development | |
WordPress web design services | |
Purchase and download easy-to-use WordPress premium themes. | |
Custom WordPress design and development for small businesses and organizations |