Complete guide to WordPress basics – WordPress made easy
Are you a new blogger in the digital era? then for a complete guide to WordPress basics, you should read this article. Why you have to choose WordPress? when there are lots of open-source CMS(Content Management System). You know why because WordPress is a free and widely used blogging platform and it has many features. It is easy to install, customize, and to use.
As a beginner, you will be needing all the single steps to be explained briefly. What ? this is a complete guide to WordPress basics? Yes but I am not going to do that in this single article. As it is a lot to tell you will just learn the features and navigation of WordPress in this post, so you can understand what is what.
WordPress Front-end
Here in the image below you can see the site structure. This type applies to most of the sites not only for WordPress sites.
- Header – Here comes your site logo along with tagline, next is the header menu for your page navigation.
- Content area – All your post and page content goes here.
- Sidebar – You can place all your widgets here.
- Footer – This place is for copyright content and for footer widgets.
- Dashboard – In the dashboard, you can see WordPress welcome message and a short detail about your site (number of pages, posts, category & comments)
- Posts – Publish, edit & delete all your blog posts and category.
- Media – In media library you can add your images and other media files
- Pages – Same as posts add, edit & delete all your pages. Here is the guide for adding post & pages
- Comments – You can see your approved and pending comments.
- Appearance
Here it comes! In appearance, you can totally change the look and feel of your site.
Themes – In appearance 1st thing you will be seeing is themes here you can Install and manage your themes.
Widgets – This place is unlimited you can place anything you want in your widgets like calendar, Ads, images, pages, categories, plugins.
Menus – Add your custom menus with pages and categories. Brief
- Plugins – Add, delete & manage your plugins. Here is the Guide to installing a plugin for beginners explained.
- Users – Manage your profile. Add, edit, and delete users. Set privileges for users only administrators can do that.
- Settings – Manage your site title, tagline, e-mail for user notification, and in-case you forget your password, blog settings, comment/media settings, and your site’s URL structure.
In this complete guide to WordPress basics you have found some helpful related links. Make use of that so you can get a complete idea of WordPress.
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