Navigating your dashboard and admin panel
Topics include:
- Logging in to your site (http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin)
- Dashboard and Admin panel features
- Pages & Posts
- Adding media files (images, video, etc.) and accessing media library
- Categories, tags, links
- Comments
- Users (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities)
- Settings
- As time permits: basics of design/functions: plug-ins, widgets, themes
Other useful info:
WordPress.com or WordPress.org
If you are building a website and want to have creative control over the site, including access to all WordPress themes (or your own design), plugins and stylesheets, we recommend you do a self-install either by installing via your host or downloading from WordPress.org. See WPBeginner’s infographic for more info.
Installing WordPress
Every server/hosting company will have a different process to install WordPress. The folks at WordPress.org recommend a number of companies that optimize for WordPress and make installation simple. For those who need to install WordPress on their own server, visit the Codex entry on Installing WordPress.
Future reference
- WordPress Austin Google Group (great place to get help with WordPress here in town)
- “Using WordPress” (Jackie’s site)
- WordPress Codex (WordPress.org encyclopedia of WordPress)
- WordPress Support Forums
Presented by:
Jackie Dana, Getting Dirty Designs
Sandi Chevalier-Batik, Pleiades Publishing Services