WordPress Control Panel
WordPress Control Panel
WordPress Control Panel
This is an introduction to the back end control panel of your blog/website.
Once you’ve installed your self-hosted WordPress blog from your cPanel in Bluehost or HostGator, you’ll need to know a bit about how to set it up.
In this post I’m going to be giving you an introduction to the back end Control Panel of your WordPress Blog or website, and I’ll be explaining some other general concepts that you should be aware of regarding how your website is set up.
WordPress Control Panel
So when you visit CarolAmato.com in a web browser, you’ll see something that looks like this:
What you see here is known as the front end of the website. The front end is what is displayed publicly to a visitor of the website. Now when your website was installed, WordPress also installed what’s known as a back end.
The back end is where you’re going to be doing all of the customization of your website. The customization you make on the back end is what’s going to be reflected on the front end.
For instance in the back end you’re going to be making tweaks to the graphics you add, you’re going to be making tweaks to the text you choose, and you’re going to be making tweaks to the basic functionality of things like your opt in form that you add from AWeber in order to get subscribers.
WordPress Control Panel
When you do those things in the back end, they’re going to be reflected on the front end. Self-hosted WordPress blogs come with a very powerful and very easy to use back end system that we’re going to be talking about.
Let me show you how to access it – it’s also known as your Control Panel.
To get there, on the end of your domain name, you just type in a forward slash (/) and then type in the word wp-admin. I would log into http://www.CarolAmato.com/wp-admin to access the back end or Control Panel of my self-hosted WordPress blog.
Then just click enter on your keyboard, and you’ll be taken to the login page where you can login to the back end area.
WordPress Control Panel
Your user name and your password for your Control Panel were set up when you installed your WordPress blog on your domain in your hosting cPanel.
So grab your username and password and then come back to the login screen and go ahead and login.
When you login you’ll see your control panel, or you could call it your dashboard or your back end system – whatever you like.
That’s it for now I just wanted to show you the login page and show the difference between the front and the back end of your self-hosted WordPress blog.
Going forward you’re going to be using the back end a lot because this is the system that you’re going to be using to build your website.
You’ll be using all the various tools that the WordPress platform provides. Thanks for reading WordPress Control Panel and please share on Facebook and Twitter.
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I’ve been thinking about a blog, but need to get my squeeze page up first as you say that is the most important page. I just love the information you give, so easy to understand. Thanks for your great info.
Yes, Tom, that is right. You would decide on a market, register a domain name, get hosting and put up a squeeze page first. Then, you would install a self-hosted WordPress blog.
Let me know how I can help. Thanks, Carol