Finding your way around
What the sidebar means, and the one number on the dashboard worth watching.
The first thing you see after signing in is the dashboard: six numbers along the top, and a list of what has changed recently.
The numbers are the state of your content at a glance. Published is what the public can see. Drafts is what you have started and not finished. Needs review is what somebody has asked a colleague to look at. Scheduled is what is waiting for its moment.
The sidebar
Down the left is everything you can reach, grouped by what it is for.
- The top group — the dashboard, your pictures, the assistant, and the bin.
- Content — one entry for each kind of thing your site holds. Pages, Posts, Products, whatever yours has. This is where you spend most of your time.
- Plugins — extra features somebody switched on. This group is empty until they do.
- Configure — the settings that shape everything else. You will visit these rarely, and mostly at the beginning.
At the very bottom is your own name. Click the padlock beside it to change your password; the arrow signs you out.
The search box
The box along the top searches everything you have written and every picture you have uploaded. Press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K) from anywhere to jump into it without reaching for the mouse.