The Dashboard 101
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What We're Learning:
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What is the Dashboard?
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How to get into it
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Settings
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Pages vs Posts
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Adding / editing content
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Adding / editing images
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Themes
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Widgets
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etc
Who Am I:
- Full-time WordPress freelancer (2011)
- Teach beginner WordPress workshops
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Who Am I:
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BuddyCamp Organizer (2012)
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WordCamp Organizer (2013-2015)
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WordCamp Central Training Team
What Is The Dashboard?
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Back-end
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Administration section
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Control features of your website
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Make changes to your content
Getting Into It
/wp-admin
Theme
Plugins
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A piece of software that can be added to a WordPress website
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Extend functionality or add new features
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Example: Social Media buttons
Menus
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Dashboard section
- Dashboard
- Application updates
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Content management section
- create and manage posts
- pages
- images
- comments
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Site administration section
- appearance of site
- what plugins are installed and activated
- your settings
Page vs Post
Widget
- Segment of code
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The Dashboard 101
By Jill Binder
The Dashboard 101
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