Tutorial 2

Dashboard, Category, Tags, Posts, Pages

1. Dashboard
The WordPress Dashboard is a first screen which will be seen when you log into the
administration area of your blog which will display the overview of the website. It is a
collection of gadgets that provide information and provide an overview of what's
happening with your blog. You can customize your needs by using some quick links
such as writing quick draft, replying to latest comment, etc.
Dashboard can be categorized as shown in the following snapshot. Each of these
categories are discussed in the following sections −

Dashboard Menu
The WordPress Dashboard provides navigation menu that contains some menu
options such as posts, media library, pages, comments, appearance options, plugins,
users, tools and settings on the left side.
Screen Options
The dashboard contains different types of widgets which can be shown or hidden on
some screens. It contains check boxes to show or hide screen options and also allows
us to customize sections on the admin screen.

Welcome
It includes the Customize Your Site button which allows customizing your WordPress
theme. The center column provides some of the useful links such as creating a blog
post, creating a page and view the front end of your website. Last column contains
links to widgets, menus, settings related to comments and also a link to the First Steps
With WordPress page in the WordPress codex.

Quick Draft
The Quick Draft is a mini post editor which allows writing, saving and publishing a post
from admin dashboard. It includes the title for the draft, some notes about the draft and
save it as a Draft.

WordPress News
The WordPress News widget displays the latest news such as latest software version,
updates, alerts, news regarding the software etc. from the official WordPress blog.

Activity
The Activity widget includes latest comments on your blog, recent posts and recently
published posts. It allows you to approve, disapprove, reply, edit, or delete a comment.
It also allows you to move a comment to spam.

At a Glance
This section gives an overview of your blog's posts, number of published posts and
pages, and number of comments. When you click on these links, you will be taken to
the respective screen. It displays the current version of running WordPress along with
the currently running theme on the site.
 2. Category

2.1. Add category

In this chapter, we will study about how to Add Categories in WordPress. Category is
used to indicate sections of your site and group related posts. It sorts the group content
into different sections. It is a very convenient way to organize the posts.
To access the Category section, follows the mentioned steps −
Step (1) − Click on Posts → Categories option in WordPress.
Step (2) − The Categories page is displayed as shown in the following screenshot.

Following are the details of the fields on Categories.

 Name − Enter the unique name of categories.
 Slug − A word chosen to describe your post. It is specified in the tags URL.
 Parent − By selecting the parent category from dropdown, you can set the
particular category as sub-category or can keep it as None.
 Description − Add brief description of your category. It is optional.
Step (3) − After filling all the information about Categories, click on Add New
Category button.
Step (4) − After clicking on Add New Category, the new created category will get
displayed on the right side of the page as shown in the following screen.
Task to complete:
 Add a new category: Mydailylife
 Add a subcategory: Mylitllefamily

2.2. Edit Category

In this part, we will study the simple steps to Edit Categories in WordPress.
Following are the simple steps to edit categories in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Posts → Categories in WordPress.
Step (2) − You can view Category created in the previous part. When the cursor
hovers on the Categories, then a few options get displayed below the Category
name. There are two ways to edit the categories i.e. Edit and Quick Edit
Edit − Click on Edit option in Categories section as seen in the following
screenshot.

You can edit any of the required field, and then click Update button as shown in the
following screen.
Category fields are same from the chapter WordPress - Add Category.
Quick Edit − Click on Quick Edit option in Categories section as shown in the
following screen.

Here, you can only edit the Name and Slug of the category as seen in the following
screen and then finally click on Update Category button.
 Tasks to complete:
- Edit your Category in 2.1
 Change Slugs of Mydailylife to personallife

2.3. Delete Category

In this chapter, we will study about how to Delete Categories in WordPress.
Following are the simple steps to delete categories in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Posts → Categories in WordPress.
Step (2) − You can delete Category1 (Category1 was created in the
chapter Wordpress - Add Category). When the cursor hovers on the Categories, a few
options get displayed below the Category name. Click on Delete button as shown in
the following screen.

When you click on delete, you will get a pop message asking for confirmation to delete
the particular category as shown in the following screenshot.
You can click on OK button and delete the category permanently.

Task to complete:
- Delete the subcategory: Mylittlefamily
- Delete the parent category: Mydailylife

3. Tags

3.1. Add tags

Tag is a small information attached to the main content or post for the purpose of
identification. It tells the visitors what actually the post is about.
Following are the steps to Add Tags in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Posts → Tags in WordPress.
Step (2) − The Tags page is displayed.

Following are the details of the fields on Tags.

 Name − Enter the name of tags.
 Slug − A word chosen to describe your post. It is specified in the tags URL.
 Description − Add brief description of your tag. It gets displayed when you
hover on the tag.
After filling all the information about Tags, click on Add New Tag button.
Step (3) − The new created tags will get displayed on the right side of the page as
shown in the following screenshot.
 3.2. Edit tag
In this chapter, we will study to Edit Tags in WordPress.
Following are the simple steps to Edit Tags in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Posts → Tags in WordPress.
Step (2) − You can view tag Food around the world (Food around the world was
created in the chapter Wordpress - Add Tags). When the cursor hovers on the
Tags, then a few options get displayed below the Tag name. There are two ways to
edit the tags i.e. Edit and Quick Edit
Edit − Click on Edit option in Tags section as shown in the following screen.

You can edit any of the required field, and then click on Update button as shown in
the following screen.

Here tag fields are same from the chapter.

Quick Edit − Click on Quick Edit option in Tags section as shown in the following
screenshot.

Here you can only edit the Name and Slug of the Tags as seen in the following
screen and then click on Update Tag button.
 3.3. Delete tags
In this chapter, we will learn to Delete tags in WordPress.
Following are the steps to delete tags in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Posts → Tags in WordPress.

Step (2) − You can delete tag Food around the world (Food around the world was
created in the chapter WordPress - Add Tags), when the cursor hovers on the Tags,
then a few options get displayed below the Tags name. Click on Delete in tags
section as shown in the following screen.
When you click on delete, you will get a pop message asking for confirmation to
delete.

You can click on OK button and delete the tag permanently.

4. Posts

4.1. Add posts

In this chapter, we will study how to Add Posts in WordPress. Posts are also known
as articles and sometimes referred as blogs or blog posts. These are used to
popularize your blogs.
Following are the simple steps to Add Posts in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Posts → Add New in WordPress.

Step (2) − You will get the editor page of the Post as shown in the following screen.
You can use the WordPress WYSIWYG editor to add the actual content of your post.
Following are the fields on the editor page of the Add Posts Page.
 Add Title − Enter the title of the post, i.e., Post1.
 Add Content − Enter the content of your post.
 Add other block such as: Media, Video, Picture,… Click on + icons

 Add images to posts

Click on + icon, choose Image
Select Upload, select image to upload

 Add text/paragraph to posts

Click + icon, choose Paragraph
 And then choose Format for the paragraph.
Heading, Alignment, Width,…

 Set Drop cap

Step (3) – You can assign Category and Tags to posts. You can create a new
category or tag if it is not available.
Step (4) – Click on Publish button to publish your
respective post.

Following are the few other options present in the

Publish section.
 Save Draft − It saves the post as a draft.
 Publish – Immediately or specified time.
 Move to Trash − Deletes the post.
 Preview− Review your post before publishing.
 Visibility − Change the visibility of the post
to Public, Private or Password protected.

Tasks to complete:
 Add a new post that contains an image
 Some paragraphs
 And a drop cap
 Set headings for paragraphs
 Add post to a category and tags
 4.2. Edit Posts
In this part, we will study how to Edit Posts on WordPress.
Following are the simple steps to Edit Posts in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Posts → All Posts in WordPress.
Step (2) − You can view Post1 (Post1 was created in the chapter WordPress - Add
Posts). When the cursor hovers on the Post, few options get displayed below the Post
name. There are two ways to edit the Post i.e. Edit and Quick Edit.
Edit − Click on Edit option in Post1 as shown in the following screen.

You can edit or change the content or title of the post as per your needs, and then click
on Update button as shown in the following screen.

Quick Edit − Click on Quick Edit option in Post1 as shown in the following
screenshot.
Here you can edit the Title, Slug and date of the posts and can also select the
categories for your post as shown in the following screenshot and then click
on Update button to confirm post edits.

4.3. Delete posts

In this chapter, we will study how to Delete Posts in WordPress.
Following are the steps to Delete Posts in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Posts → All Post in WordPress.

Step (2) − You can delete Post1 (Post1 was created in the chapter Wordpress - Add
Posts). When the cursor hovers on the Post, then a few options get displayed below
Post1. Click on Trash option to delete the post.
Step (3) − You can view your post lists to confirm if the above post is deleted.

Task to complete:
- Edit the previous post: Remove picture
- And then Delete the post

5. Pages

5.1. Add pages

In this chapter, we will study how to Add Pages into the WordPress. Adding pages
is similar to adding posts in WordPress. Pages are static content and often do not
change its displayed information.
Following are the simple steps to add pages in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Pages → Add New as shown in the following screenshot.
Step (2) − You will get the editor page as seen in the following screenshot. You can
enter information and format like Adding a post.
Step (3) – After finishing adding data to page, you can click on Publish to make the
page available or you can choose Preview before publishing.

5.2. Edit Pages

In this chapter, we will study how to Edit pages in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Pages → All Pages in WordPress as shown in the following
screen.

Step (2) − You can view About Us (About Us was created previously). When the
cursor hovers on the pages, then few options get displayed below About Us. There
are two ways to edit the Post, i.e., Edit and Quick Edit.
Edit − Click on Edit option in About Us as shown in the following screenshot.
You can edit or change the content or title from the page as per your need, and then
click on Update button as shown in the following screen.

Quick Edit − Click on Quick Edit option in About Us as shown in the following
screen.
You can edit the Title, Slug and date of the About Us page and can also select the
parent for your page as shown in the following shot and then click
on Update button.

Task to complete:
- Update About us: Adding a picture

5.3. Delete pages

In this chapter, we will learn to Delete Pages in WordPress.
Following are the steps to Delete pages in wordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Pages → All Pages in WordPress.
Step (2) − You can delete Sample Page (Sample Page is created by default in
WordPress). When the cursor hovers on the pages, then a few options gets
displayed below the Sample Page. Click on Trash option to delete the post.

Or alternatively you can also delete your page directly while editing or adding page
by clicking on the Move to Trash button as shown in the following screen.
Step (3) − To confirm that you have deleted the page, view your page list.

Task to complete:
- Delete ‘About-us’ page