If you are new to WordPress, and looking for developing your own website, then you are at the right junction. People from IT/Non-IT backgrounds wish to own an e-commerce site or blogging website personally or professionally, either free or paid., then, WordPress is the one-stop for them.
WordPress is the world’s most popular website builder and Content Management System (CMS).WordPress is an(open- source Software) application.
Once you sign in, WordPress Dashboard appears. We can notice almost all the important elements of WordPress on the left side of the Dashboard. Pages, Posts, Media, and Comments are Site elements, whereas Themes come under design elements. The plugin is for adding new features and Users are a part of a general setting.
Let’s check out each element separately.
- Post
When you click on Posts, it opens to All Posts. Those are the posts that you have published or which are in draft. Moreover, you can click to edit them from there only. To write a new post, you simply click on Add New and include the content of your article. For anyone who wants to build a blog, is going to spend maximum time over there.
You can include a Featured Image on your blog post, as this is going to be useduse as a thumbnail throughout your site where you feature blog posts. There is the option at the bottom of the right-hand column when you are writing your post.
- Pages
Posts and Pages are two very different elements though they look the same and use the same interface. You write posts as articles on your website and are often time-sensitive. Pages are ‘evergreen’ content. Pages are also what makes up the structure of your site. As such, you need at least one, which is usually a home page or a blog archive. You need not change Pages very often. A page such as About Us, Services, Contact remains static.
- Media
Media compliments to your site. Media is your library of images, documents, and other uploaded files. To add a new image, you can click on Select Files. This uploads the file to the media library for you to use in any of your posts or pages. If you’re writing or editing a post or page, and you want to add an image, simply click on the Add Media button above your text editor and select an image from your library or you can upload a new one.
- Themes
WordPress caters 45k+ free themes for your sites. You can add Photo, carousels, tiled image galleries, maps, form in your site to look great. With the WordPress Theme Directory, you’ll find plenty of free options and you can preview your site prior to adding it to your site. You can Customize and finally publish with few changes you made.
- Plugins
Plugins are like iPhone Apps. Apps are useful to the various functions of your iPhone, in the same manner, WordPress is extensible. You can add custom features to WordPress with the help of plugins. There are over 50,000+ plugins to choose from, so it is easy to add a few too many pages. There are many different companies that provide WordPress plugins to extend its functionality. For viz, WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, Slider Revolution, etc.
- Comments
Comments section liberates you to edit and delete comments. If comments are enabled on your website, this is where you will be able to moderate any comments which are left on your blog posts.
- Users
From here you can control, add, edit or delete user profiles for your site. If you’re the only one with access, you’ll be the only one listed. If you allow multiple people to have access, they will be listed here along with their role and number of posts written.
Conclusion :
WordPress offers infinite opportunities to monetize and empower people around the globe. Hence, there are numerous reasons why WordPress is the Number 1 Content Management System platform where 38% of the web is built on WordPress worldwide. Needless to say, right now, over 75 million people are using this platform to keep their websites, blogs and online profiles live just because of limitless features of WordPress elements and its’ portability-i.e., WordPress is accessible anytime, everywhere, and compatible with phone, tablet, or browser.