Understanding Your WordPress Dashboard and

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Understanding Your WordPress Dashboard and Admin Panel
When you login to WordPress, you’ll see your WordPress dashboard. It looks something like this:

Screenshot showing the WordPress dashboard with information on Site Health Status, At a Glance, Activity, Quick Draft, and WordPress Events and News, plus the WordPress admin menu down th left hand side
Your dashboard has useful information and links, like an “At a Glance” box telling you about your website.

Your admin panel is all the “backend” of your WordPress site. You can see the links argentina phone number resource the left-hand side of the screen to things like “Posts,” “Pages,” “Comments,” “Appearance” and more.

This is where you control everything about your website. You use the admin panel to publish new posts and pages, moderate comments, change your site’s theme and appearance, add plugins, add users, change your settings, and more.

At first glance, the dashboard and admin panel as a whole can seem a bit overwhelming and you might not know how best to begin. Feel free to click around and take a look at different areas.

The key things to know about when you’re getting started are:

Posts: This is where you can create new blog posts and edit (or even delete) existing ones.
Pages: This lets you create pages for your website (such as an About page or Contact page).
Appearance: This has several useful options that you’ll want to try out: Themes lets you change your blog’s theme, Widgets lets you adjust your sidebar or footer, and Menus lets you change your navigation menu:
The WordPress apperance menu
Tip: If you make a change to your WordPress site and decide against it, you can easily change it back again! Feel free to experiment and try out different things as you get used to WordPress.

Choosing Your WordPress Theme
One of the first things you’ll want to do when you set up your site is to change the WordPress theme.