Dashboard Toolbar
If the Dashboard is your command center, then the Toolbar is your control panel. The Toolbar let’s you navigate from Pages to Posts, from Media to Links, from Plugins to Profiles.
The whole thing is broken into quick-navigation categories. Each button you see on the Toolbar (except “Comments” and, if not using WordPress.com, “Dashboard”) has a drop down box with more buttons.
So let’s discover exactly what everything does.
(Plugin add-ons: NexGen, etc.)
This one’s easy. It takes you to the Dashboard homepage.
I’m not sure if that’s what it’s called but that’s what it does. It takes the Toolbar from this –
to this –
Here is where you can add and edit Posts.
- Edit – Click on “Edit” and your browser navigates to the “Edit Posts” Page. Here you can browse through all the Posts on your site.
- If you want to search, fill in the text field for your search and WordPress will search through all of your sites post for that text.
- You can also search using the “Filter” categories. Choose a date from the “Show all dates” drop down box and a category from the “View all categories” drop down box, then click “Filter”. WordPress will then display only the Posts that meet that criteria.
- To Edit a Post, just click on the title on the Post, and WordPress will send your browser to the “Edit a Post” page where you can “Edit a Post”.
- If you want to delete you can click delete below a Post title, or click the box to it’s left. A check will appear in the box. Check as many boxes as you wish to delete and use the drop down box for “Bulk Actions” to find “delete.” Then click “Apply.” Piece of cake!
- Add New – Click this to Add a New Post.
- Post Tags – Post Tags are a good way to optimize (SEO). This page where you can evaluate and manage your Post Tags.
- Click here to learn more about your Post Tags Page.
- Categories – This brings you to a page to manage your Post Categories.
The best websites are full of eye-catching photos, video, and/or sounds and music. WordPress is set up to allow you these tools. But first you need upload these files to your website. There are a number of ways to add Media but they all end up here, in you Media Library.
- Library – where all your Media files are stored.
- You can recrop an image, retitle a file, add a description, or attach a link by clicking on the file you wish to edit.
- You can delete a file by pressing the “Trash” button below the file name.
- Or you can upload another Media file by pressing the “Add New” button.
- Add New – is a shortcut on the Media toolbar list to adding (uploading) New Media.
Many themes have a sidebar Widget that lists outgoing links for further reference. This is where you manage those links.
- Edit – sends you to the “Edit Links” page where you can manage your links.
- Just like the Media, Tags, Posts, and Pages pages, you can click on the Link Title to edit the link information, or you can click delete to delete it.
- Add New – lets you add a New Link (Go Figure!).
- Categories – is where you can categorize your links.
- Suppose you have five links on the environment and six links on government officials’ pages. Here you can make an “Environment” and a “Government Officials” category to store your links, respectively.
Here is where you can add and edit Pages.
- Edit – Click on “Edit” and your browser navigates to the “Edit Page” page. Here you can browse through all the Page on your site.
- If you want to search, fill in the text field for your search and WordPress will search through all of your sites post for that text.
- Your pages will be organized by “Parent” Pages. The Parent Pages will be listed in the order given on the “Edit Page” page. The SubPages will be listed under the Parent Page and the Page Title will have a dash (-) in front of it to signify that it is a SubPage of the above Parent Page. For SubSubPages it will have 2 dashes (–) and so on.
- To Edit a Page, just click on the title on the Page, and WordPress will send your browser to the “Edit a Page” page where you can “Edit a Page”.
- If you want to delete you can click delete below a Page title, or click the box to it’s left. A check will appear in the box. Check as many boxes as you wish to delete and use the drop down box for “Bulk Actions” to find “delete.” Then click “Apply.” Piece of cake!
- Add New – Click this to Add a New Page.
Just click the “Comments” button and WordPress will navigate your browser to the Comments Page.
- Here you can search, edit, and approve or unapproved the comments made to your Pages and Posts.
- If there are Comments to be approved you will see a “Pending (#)” towards the top of the screen. # signifies the number of pending approvals.
- Click on this to be taken to a list of Comments Pending Approval.
- To approve, click approve. Simple!
Ratings are just what they sound like. They are ratings for your Posts, Pages, and Comments.
- Settings – here you can enable or disable ratings for Posts, Pages, and Comments and choose where the ratings will be positioned (above or below).
- Reports – is a Report of your ratings. Simple!
To use “Polls” you will need to set up a “PollDaddy” account.
This is more complicated and if you have WebDevStudios create the website, it’s best to leave it to them to create or correct your WordPress website’s Appearance issues.
WordPress is an open source program. This means that Webmasters can create code that allows them to alter the way WordPress works. A great example is the TinyMCE plugin that allows you to have more Content Formatting tools.
Check out our Plugins page for a more detailed explanation.
Users (for admin) / Profile (for others)
The “Users” section allows administrators the ability to Add and Edit User Profiles, including their own.
The “Tools” are somewhat complicated. Click <L>WordPress Tools<L> to get more information.
The “Settings” are somewhat complicated. Click <L>WordPress Settings<L> to get more information.
When you add plugins to your WordPress site, some, like the NexGen Gallery, include a Toolbar feature. The features would be displayed here.
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