Comments allow your website’s visitors to have a discussion with you and each other. When you activate comments on a Page or post, WordPress inserts several text boxes after your content where users can submit their comments. Once you approve a comment, it appears underneath your content. Whether you want to customize how you receive […]
Users → Your Profile The Your Profile Screen is accessible from both the main navigation menu under Users and by clicking on your name link at the top of the WordPress screen. Here you can specify your name and how it will be displayed on your site, your e-mail address (for administrative purposes), other personal […]
The Administration Screen provides access to the control features of your WordPress installation. Common Layout Each Administration Screen is presented in sections, the toolbar (and header), the main navigation, the work area, and the footer. Toolbar has links to various administration functions, and is displayed at the top of each Administration Screen. Many Toolbar items […]
Dashboard → Home From the Dashboard Screen, you can quickly access your site’s content and get glimpses into other areas of the WordPress community. The Dashboard screen presents information in blocks called widgets. By default, WordPress delivers five widgets on this page: At a Glance, Activity, Quick Draft, WordPress Events and News, and Welcome. Default […]
WordPress Widgets add content and features to your Sidebars. Examples are the default widgets that come with WordPress; for Categories, Tag cloud, Search, etc. Plugins will often add their own widgets. Widgets were originally designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress Theme to the user, […]
The Video feature allows you to embed video files and play them back using a simple shortcode. This was added as of WordPress Version 3.6 and is used like this: [ video] Note: Do Not put Space between “[” and “video”. You can also use built in embeds and simply put the media file on its […]
The Pages Screen provides the facility to manage all the Pages in a blog. Via this Screen, Pages can be edited, deleted, and viewed. Filtering, and searching, also makes it easy to quickly find Pages matching certain criteria. Several powerful features allow Pages to be edited in bulk (en masse) allowing fields such as Author, […]
What is a Gravatar? When browsing different web sites, you may notice that many users have a picture next to their name. These pictures are called “avatars.” WordPress, however, uses a specific type of avatar called “Gravatars“–short for “Globally Recognized Avatar.” Unlike standard avatars, Gravatars follow you around the web and automatically appear when you […]
This Settings General Screen is the default Screen in the Settings Administration Screen and controls some of the most basic configuration settings for your site: your site’s title and location, who may register an account at your site, and how dates and times are calculated and displayed. General Settings Site title Enter the name of […]
The Pages Add New Screen allows you to add new Pages. Screen Options The Screen Options allow you to choose which modules are displayed, or not displayed, in the underlying Screen. Clicking on the Screen Options tab shows a list of the columns with a check-box next to each column. Check the box for each […]