3. Understand the Dashboard
• Store – buy and manage upgrades
• Posts – like article, organized by
categories
• Media – upload images, video, audio,
docs, pdfs…
• Links – organize links to outside pages
• Pages – for more static information, can
have hierarchy (parent-child pages)
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4. Understand the Dashboard - 2
• Comments – manage comments from
outsiders
• Appearance
– Themes – select a layout for blog
– Widgets – manage sidebar features
– Menus – create custom menus (for navigation)
– Header / Custom – Change look
– Mobile – change look, download apps
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5. Understand the Dashboard - 3
• Users – for multiple authors/contributors
• Tools – limited added functionality
(import/export valuable for moving blogs)
• Settings
– General – title & tag line
– Reading – helps manage length of pages
– Discussion – manage comments
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8. Do you see something
different?
• Toggle from Visual to Text
• Open second row of menu buttons
Open
toggle
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9. Remember
• Posts are good for news
• Pages are good for more static information
• Remember to publish
– Auto-save is good with WP
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10. Widgets
• Text for contact info
• RSS feeds from other
sites
– Facebook
– Twitter
• Third Party Tools
• Search
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11. Questions
Thank you!
Ann Treacy
atreacy@treacyinfo.com
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