the Dashboard
what it is and how to use it
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the left corner will hold the editor dashboard
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log into your Wordpress.com account
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click on "My Sites" in the top left corner
Admin
manage
Personalize
Configure
This is where Wordpress tries to get you to pay for things. This is where you can upgrade to a paid account, buy a theme, buy domains, and see your purchase/billing history.
Additionally, you can view the stats regarding the website. Like who viewed it and for how long.
Manage your pages, posts, published or not, and media. If you have used the blog portion of the Wordpress site, this is where you input post content. It will be displayed on the page you decide to have your posts appear on.
This is where you can customize the theme of your website and change the color scheme of the pages.
This section allows admin to share the website with different WordPress users, add a new admin, include different plugins to WordPress, and alter the settings of the website.
You will rarely use this section of the website, these are for major setting changes to the website.
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Standard & Admin Dashboards
Dashboard explained
Wordpress.com has two dashboards: the standard dashboard and the admin dashboard.
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This video explains the difference between the two and how to go back and forth between them.
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Admin vs. Standard dashboard on WordPress.com by Lisa Waananen Jones