This series is here to help you use and manage your wordpress site. It assumes that you will be logging in as an admin user. I encourage people to use a good web browser such as Safari or if you prefer it Firefox. Both browsers support tabbed browsing and it is this element that I think is particularly useful. I suggest people open two tabs, the first one to do admin work and the second one to view the site and to view the work you are doing.
So if you have your tabs open, navigate to your site on both tabs. In the first tab after your site name, add wp-admin:
http://sitename.co.uk/wp-admin
If you are already logged in you will go straight to the dashboard, if not you will be asked to log in. You will need your user name and password in order to log in.
After logging in you will arrive at the dashboard as shown above. The column to the left is your navigation column. For ease of use I have shown what happens if you log in as admin. However, if you log in as a different level of user such as editor you will see a different navigation structure.
The areas of particular interest are posts and pages. The main difference between the two is permanence – posts are dated and therefore get archived, pages are permanent and don’t get archived. So if you want to post a piece of news this would go into posts. If you wanted to write an about us page, this would go into pages.
