Step Two – Configuring Your Website

Step 2 – Configuring Your Website

Once you have setup your site you will want to login and add content, redesign it and make some changes. To do this you need to access the wp-login of your website.

www.yourdomain.com/wp-login

You do this by typing into your address bar you domain name then /wp-login. You will use the username and password that you saved from the final step of setting up your wordpress site.

Once you have logged into the site you you should come to your dashboard which looks like this:

This is where you control your website from. All changes you want to make can be done from here.

If you look down the left hand side you will notice a bunch of menus like posts, pages plugins etc.

Here is an explanation of each.

1) Posts – used mainly for blogging. You can create a post which will show up on the blog page of your website. This can be tagged, categorized and organized how you choose.

2) Media – Managing video and pictures on your website.

3) Links – Add links that you can put on the side of your website.

4) Pages – Used for adding new, fresh pages to your website. You can also browse the options for choosing the page slug, enabling/disabling comments, changing the page order, modifying the page template, etc.

5) Comments – managing comments people make on your blog posts.

5) Appearance – Allows you to customize your website. Starting with the design, then also the layout and structure.

6) Plugins – Used to improve your websites functionality and usability.

7) Users – Managing the administrators of the website (who can login or not)

Settings – Allows you to edit the general settings of your website.