The Dashboard 101

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What We're Learning:

• What is the Dashboard?

• How to get into it

• Settings

• Pages vs Posts

• Adding / editing content

• Adding / editing images

• Themes

• Widgets

• etc

Who Am I:

• Full-time WordPress freelancer (2011)
   
• Teach beginner WordPress workshops
  
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Who Am I:

What Is The Dashboard?

• Back-end

• Administration section

• Control features of your website

• Make changes to your content

Getting Into It

Theme

Plugins

• A piece of software that can be added to a WordPress website

• Extend functionality or add new features
  
   

• Example: Social Media buttons

Menus

• Dashboard section
  • Dashboard
  • Application updates
• Content management section
  • create and manage posts
  • pages
  • images
  • comments

• 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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