Introduction to WordPress Admin Dashboard

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Hi, this is Jason from Grow My Business, and uh,today I wanna run you through the basic backend and settings of your website. So, um, this is a kind of an older template. So there might be things here that you have that w maybe they don’t have any more, but this is the general gist of things. So once you’ve logged in, you’re now dropped into this dashboard area here. Uh, you’ve got these cards, they’re here by default, but they’re all kind of useless to be honest.

Or WooCommerce is a good one. But you can reorder these if you find them useful. Feel free to add however many you want. Personally, I don’t use them on my side, but they’re, they’re still good data.
And then plugins like WooCommerce will add their own things here. You can go up here and you can see this stuff you’re just taking in and off. So that’s the first piece of information.

Nearly every page here’s got screen options. So if you feel like there’s something missing from a page you’re looking at or say we’ve given you a tutorial and like heart, I can’t see that menu or that little item, click here. And it’s usually a checkbox that you can check.

Um, so you also get these banners, these global banners here. So this is just from us not updating the plugin. ’cause this is just a site we use for tutorial videos. So these are good to look after. Although some plugins, they just like to complain about stuff that isn’t actually a problem.

So yeah. Um, so moving down here on the left, this is our main like navigation for the back end. This is your admin bar that you get everywhere you go on the website when you’re logged in. So like for instance here, they’ll take you to the front of your site and then you got, yeah, visit site.

Visit store. That’s the same thing. Uh, WP Rocket, if you make any changes clearing the cache, that will usually purge it for all users. So cache is just like a static file that’s generated to speed up your website and it gets remade every 24 hours for example.

So say we’ve made changes. You’ve made changes and you can’t see it. Or maybe a client can’t see it, it’s probably ’cause they’re seen that static file that’s been made. So you just wanna clear your cache on page cache, preload, cash, there’s different settings with different sites, but you get the gist of it, right?

Um, right. So yeah, you don’t really have to do anything up with here apart from the visuality. You’ll see on the front end and all other tutorials. So we’ll keep going down the side. So you’ve got updates here. Like I said, this is a template site so we don’t really keep it up to date ’cause it’s not mission critical, but this is just broken down into your plugins. So these are all our updates.

Uh, we run updates for all of our clients. So you never have to go in here and do this. But say if you’re looking after yourself, you can just like click these update or click all of these update. And then sometimes says WordPress updates.

You can click there. And if you’re operating in a different language, apart from U bes English, you might also have to update your translations. But yeah, so updates you shouldn’t have to do. And then come down here. Posts. So this is where you add blog posts and stuff.

So there’s all other videos about making blog posts, but you’ve got add new categories, tags. And then here we’ve got an events system pre-installed. So it’s the same gist, but for events media, this is your media library. So where you can see all your uploaded content, pretty bare because it’s a template.

But for instance, you can click on here, you can download the files, you can copy the U R L, you can rename it, you can give it al text caption, description text and you can see your dimensions and your other stats for it. Cool. And then here we’ve got gravity forms. So this is our form plugin.

Once again, there’ll be another video about that, about creating forms. Point ’em on pages. Here you can see all of your pages of your website. So you, again, there’ll be another video for that comments.

If you run a blog or maybe a shop, you’ll see all your comments here. You’ll be able to mark them as spam, not spam, delete them, approve them, et cetera. Projects as a custom post type. We have on this same thing as post rule, WooCommerce, whole nother bag of worms. So we’ll go through that another day. Same with products, analytics, marketing, that’s all WooCommerce stuff.

Appearance, you should never really have to go in here. But for example, so you can see you install themes, customized, that’s all done by divvy. Widgets don’t have to do that. Menus, you might have to once in a while. So this is how you change your menus on your website. For example, if we go to this tab, you can see that this is a menu here and you can see here primary.

So that’s our primary menu and here you can add new stuff in or click that remove and you can save your menu there. Once again, probably you’ll nerve to do that, but it’s good to know and you’ve got all your different things you can add in here. Plugins. So this is all the plugins on your site.

So plugins are how we add functionality in for without having to charge a million dollars for a website. So once again, you’ll probably never have to go in here unless you’re a tinkerer and you want to add some functionality. You’ve read a blog or something you feed up. Yeah, that’s cool. I want to add that. So you’d go add new here, but once again we’ll have something else to dive a bit more deep into that.

Then you got your users menu. So currently we just have the one administrator, but once again, if you run a shop or maybe a blog, if you can make an accounting comment, you’ll have a couple more here. And there’s different user types like subscriber customer, all pretty self-explanatory.

And you’ve got tools here.
This is all pretty much webmaster stuff. I don’t see why you’d ever have to go in here. And then now we’ve got our actual settings menu. So you click on settings, it’ll take us by default to the general tab.
So here you can see you’ve got your site title, your tagline, which isn’t really used in the theme system, but it’s still good to have. So it kindly just grammar a business template.

Uh, the u r l of your website never changes this or you’ll break everything Administrator email. We always want that to be support at Grow My Business. This is in case something goes terribly wrong with your website. Uh, it’ll us only, you can only have one email and it’ll only send us the restore email to get into the back, otherwise it becomes a whole nother problem.

Um, then we’ve got some membership stuff here that’s from a plugin and then site language. So by default it’s usually just English United States, just most compatible. But you can change to English, New Zealand, British, whatever time zone. We can say that to J Oh, where are we? Ah, you get the point of it. You can say that to the right time zone date format.

So how you want your dates to be shown across the menus and stuff and your time format. So yep, you can go 24 hour or 12, 12, you go to writing. So this is something else you probably won’t have to ever do again, but this is just going through the basic mail service and stuff. Reading.

So this just says that our homepage is in fact home and the post pages, the blog. So posts Is blog posts, it’s a shorthand and then we’ll save that, make sure it’s all working properly. Brilliant. And then discussion. So this is your sittings on people commenting.

So you can go through here, have a look at certain things. So there’s pretty much just a bunch of comment automations and you’ve got moderation here. So if you’re facing spam, you can put words in here like cryptocurrency and stuff that was, that would just automatically flag those comments of spam. ’cause what can we do at, there’s times of people out there trying to sell this stuff.

And then you’ve got stuff down here, like you can put a rating for your website. Uh, and then you can give people like their default avatar, like blank mystery person. There’s a couple random defaults there by WordPress. I’d just leave it on mystery person. Uh, media.

So go in here, you can sit thumbnail, medium and large sizes for stuff. Uh, once again, something that you should never have to really touch. Permit links. This is another technical thing that you shouldn’t have to touch. This is all just set up for you.

But it pretty much just tells us how stuff should be indexed, like the links, uh, privacy. This is another thing that we don’t really work with because our system has its own way of creating your privacy policies and stuff. Object cash. This is another purely backend thing.

Real nerdy stuff that once again, no use to the average end user updraft plus backups as we take backups. We’ve got a video on how to use this. Uh, duplicate page is just another plugin. WP Rocket’s a plugin, but one worth covering. So This is how we page things.

So you’ve got your K here and you just have a bunch of settings here. I wouldn’t really touch any of them just to make sure you don’t break anything, but just good to know. And then from here you’ve got your quick actions like clear preload, purge, And then we have divi here. So Divi is our primary, uh, builder.

So this is what makes your website look like a website. So there’s a bunch of settings here you don’t wanna touch. There’s some code here that we have put in. Um, the only thing I can imagine you’ll ever have to do is for instance, like say here we’ve got mail or light, which is, uh, like a mail sender application. And um, sometimes things you’ll sign up for services and they’re like, please put a tracking code or put code in the head or footer of your body, I mean of your website.

And then you can do that here. Integrate under integration on the divi menu. So body and head, although we can more than happy to do this for you, but for some reason you have to do it yourself. That’s how you do it. And that’s pretty much the whole menu.

So, um, thanks for watching this one and I hope this, uh, has cleared some stuff up for you. Sweet.