All right, so we've installed our version of WordPress, moving everything up and running, this is
the first page that you will see when you log in, and this is called your dashboard.
So what this is, is a an overview of your website as it stands right now with some basic information.
I have one post, one page, one comment.
These are all things that WordPress puts in by the fall, just as kind of like placeholders for you.
But as your website grows, you can get a glance at a glance, see all the different things that make
up your website.
You could also do a quick draft of a post.
You can look at different activity, just different news from WordPress, things like that over here
as you start to add other plugins.
And you'll see when we do this that there will be other areas that pop into here that are just kind
of nice to see at a glance.
But I just touch on a little things with your website so I don't spend a whole lot of time here.
But Beaners, it's the first page that you see when you log in.
It is kind of important to at least understand what you're looking at now.
The majority of what you're going to be doing is going to be involved in all the stuff over here on
the left hand side.
These are your toolbars as your menu basically for your administrative area within the website.
And this is gonna let you do things like creating a blog post had media, which would be like images
and photos and video and audio pages.
These are the pages that make up your website.
Now, I don't want to confuse these with blog posts because posts are like little articles that you
write.
Pages are going to be like your photos or contact us, things that are more static and that don't change
the blog posts or things that continue to be added to and are more kind of newsworthy.
Again, different than pages comments.
Those are nice to have.
Once you start blogging, you'll see that there are probably going to be a lot of spam comments that
you don't want to watch out for.
And we're going to talk through some things that will hopefully kind of minimize the amount of comments
that you get their spam.
But those are where you would see new comments being placed and you can go in and edit them and do some
different things.
Parents is going to be where we're going to add different themes to our website.
We're going to modify the menu.
We're going to modify widgets and move things around there.
I'll show you what all that stuff is, plugins that kind of adds the functionality to your website,
which will let you do things like pack up your website, add security and social media icons, all different
things like that that you can do.
Those can be found in the plugins.
Now, WordPress has a huge database of free plugins for the most part that you can choose from, all
from within your website, which would be very cool.
We're going to take a look at that here a little bit.
The users that's going to be either modifying your profile or any other users to the website.
What we can do is we can have other writers and contributors and editors and the different people with
different roles come to the website log and be able to do their thing without interfering with me.
So you can have multiple people all working on the website at the same time.
That's the true power of CMS and working in something like WordPress.
Now, if I were in a page and someone else wanted to edit it, they would see that the page was temporarily
blocked until I was able to get out of the page and they could then get into it.
So it has a lot of checks and functions like that will help prevent bad things from happening.
For the most part, you really won't be using tools.
There is a plugin we will install later on that will be found under tools under the settings here that
we're going to use.
It can be helpful, but for the most part, really don't use those.
And then settings, those are what make up your website and kind of add a little minor functionality
that you're going to want to set before really going too far with blogging.
So in the next couple of videos, we're going to go through all those different things and they're going
to get into even more advanced stuff.