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Take a guided tour of the WordPress dashboard and learn where to find the tools you’ll use most often. You’ll explore posts, pages, media, plugins, themes, and essential navigation features.
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Now that we've successfully installed
WordPress, it's time to get familiar
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with the WordPress dashboard.
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The dashboard
is the control center of your website.
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This is where you'll create
pages, manage content,
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customize design settings, and control
how your site functions.
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If this is your first time
seeing WordPress, it might look a little
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overwhelming at first,
and that's completely normal.
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In this lesson, I'm
going to walk you through the dashboard
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and show you what everything does
and what you'll use most often
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and what you can safely ignore
for now too.
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Okay first let's make sure everyone knows
how to access the dashboard.
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If your site is open inside local
you can click the wp-admin button to
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open it.
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You can also access the dashboard by
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typing your site name dot local forward
slash wp-admin
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then logging in using the username
and password you created earlier.
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When you first log into WordPress
you land on the main dashboard screen.
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This page gives you a general overview
of your site including updates
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activity and quick shortcuts.
You don't need to spend much time here
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but it helpful for checking site status
if you hosting something live.
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The most important part of the WordPress
dashboard is the navigation menu
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on the left side.
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This sidebar is where you'll access nearly
everything you do in WordPress.
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Posts are typically used for blog content
or articles that are published over time.
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For example, if you were running a blog
or news website,
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you would use posts to publish updates
or stories.
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For this course, we won't be using posts
very much because we're just
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building a portfolio style website,
but it's good to know they exist.
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The media section is where
all your images, videos, and uploaded
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files are stored.
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Anytime you upload a photo or other file
to your site, it will appear here.
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We'll be using this section later
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when we start adding images
to Mike the Frog's portfolio.
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The pages section is one of the most
important areas for this course
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Pages are used for static content things
like your homepage, contact page, etc.
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These are the types of pages
we'll be creating for our project.
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Unlike blog posts, pages usually
stay consistent and don't change frequently.
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The comments section allows you to manage
visitor comments
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if your site allows them.
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Since we're building a portfolio website,
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we won't use comments,
but this is where they would appear.
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The appearance section controls
the visual design of your website.
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This is where you manage themes,
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customize layout settings, and control
navigation menus.
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Later in the course,
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we'll return here to install our theme
and begin styling our site.
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Plugins add extra features
and functionality to your website.
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Think of plugins like apps
for your website.
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They allow you to extend
what WordPress can do.
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In this course, we'll install Elementor
as our main page builder plugin.
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The Users section allows you to manage
who has access to your website.
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This is especially useful
if you're working with clients
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or team members since you can control
what each person is allowed to do.
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The settings section controls
global website behavior like your site
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title, time zone and reading preferences.
We'll adjust a few important settings
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later in the course, but you generally don't
need to change these very often.
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Now, before we continue, let's quickly
review a few important WordPress terms.
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The theme controls how your website looks.
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Plugins add extra functionality.
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Pages contain your main site content.
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And posts are usually used
for blog articles.
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Throughout this course,
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we'll mostly be working inside pages,
appearance, plugins, and media.
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You don't need to memorize everything
right now.
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You'll naturally become familiar
with these areas as we build the site.
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WordPress may feel like a
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lot at first, but it becomes easier
once you start using it regularly.
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The goal right now is simply to become
comfortable navigating the dashboard.
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In the next video,
we're going to prepare our website
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by adjusting a few important settings
and cleaning up the default content
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that comes with a new WordPress
installation.
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Once that's done, we'll be ready to
install our theme and begin building Mike
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the Frog's portfolio.
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