The WordPress dashboard

About this lesson

Summary

Log in for the first time and learn what each part of the dashboard menu does.

Follow along

Steps

Add /wp-admin to the end of your website address and log in.
Look at the menu down the left. Pages, Posts and Media are the three you will use most.
Click Pages to see every page on your website.
Click your website name at the top to see it as a visitor would.

In writing

In a few words

The dashboard is the control panel for your website. You see it when you log in. The menu down the left has everything you need, and you will mostly use three parts, Pages, Posts and Media. You cannot break anything by looking around, so click each item once and see what is there.

Words explained

Dashboard: the control panel you see after you log in.

Log in: entering your username and password to get into the back of your website.