‫in this lecture of the course we're going to be ‫taking a look at the WordPress dashboard overview
‫so if you are a complete beginner with WordPress ‫and you do not know how WordPress dashboard works
‫then this lecture is going to really help you ‫understand that so let's just go ahead and
‫let's get started so now you can see that back ‫in the previous lectures we install WordPress
‫and now it is WordPress job to actually let us ‫edit this whole website that we see right here
‫now you can see that we already have got a sample ‫page created by the default and we already have a
‫homepage over here but let's suppose that if ‫we want to edit anything then how can we do
‫that and the answer is really simple you have ‫to access the admin panel or the dashboard so
‫in order to access the admin panel what you have ‫to do is to type in there Local Host colon 8080
‫and then you have to type in there /wp-admin and then you have to hit on enter and
‫it is then going to check if you are logged in ‫it will take you to the admin panel and if you
‫are not logged in it will just tell you to enter ‫your username and your password that you entered
‫while you were installing War press so let's just ‫go ahead and let's enter our username and let's
‫enter the password that was as DF g h and now ‫what we have to do is to hit on log in and it
‫is going to log Us in to the WordPress dashboard ‫now this WordPress dashboard might seem a little
‫bit confusing to you right now but after this ‫video it is going to really much easier for you
‫to understand each and everything everything so ‫now you can see that we have installed WordPress
‫now it is completely the WordPress job to edit ‫the website and that is why they have provided
‫us with this admin panel so let's just go ahead ‫and let's understand this admin panel step by step
‫so first of all you can see that we've got this ‫admin menu that is going to be shown to you if
‫you are logged in and what this is going to do is ‫that this is going to let you switch between the
‫public website so you can bring your mouse to the ‫title and then you can click on visit website so
‫that you can see that how your website looks like ‫similarly it is going to also help you go back to
‫the admin panel so that you can just click on that ‫rather than typing /wp-admin similarly if you want
‫to log out what you can do is that you can bring ‫your mouse to your user us name and then you can
‫click on log out and you will be logged out of the ‫website now let's just go ahead and let's take a
‫look at this sidebar so this homepage is going ‫to be the useless it is going to show you some of
‫the things that you should do with your website ‫now since you already have this course you can
‫actually leave this page in the updates page there ‫is going to be all of the updates that you might
‫get in the future like let's suppose that there is ‫a newer version of the WordPress you will be able
‫to update that from here and let's suppose that ‫if there is a newer version of the theme and the
‫plug-in that we will be talking later on in this ‫lecture what are those you will be able to update
‫that as well in the post you will be able to add ‫post now we will be talking about these post later
‫on in the course when we will be working with the ‫blog website since post are actually used in the
‫blog website in the media there is going to be all ‫of the media your website is going to contain it
‫is kind of like the phone gallery like you can ‫see that when you take a picture it gets stored
‫in the media or the phone gallery same goes with ‫the media library all of the images that you are
‫going to be adding on your website are going to be ‫shown in the media library after that we have got
‫the pages and if you click on that it will take ‫you to all all pages so now you can see that we
‫have got this sample page and a privacy policy ‫page which is on draft by the way but the sample
‫page is already here by the default and if you ‫click on wi it website it takes you to the main
‫page and if you can click on the sample page you ‫can see that this page is already published so now
‫let's just go back and let's create a new page ‫now you can uh create a new page by clicking on
‫add new page or you can click on this button or ‫you can go to the new and you can click on page
‫either way it is going to take you to the add new ‫page so let's click on here and you can see that
‫it takes us to this page now once you are actually ‫here it may give you a popup like choose a pattern
‫or something like that so you can click on this ‫uh cross the top of this dialogue box and this is
‫how it should be now sometimes when you will click ‫on add new page uh you may not see the sidebar and
‫you may get this in the full screen like it uh it ‫may look like this so if it is shown to you like
‫this then you if you want you can keep it this ‫way however I like to see the admin menu over
‫here as well uh because it's kind of really easy ‫to my eyes so I'll be clicking on these three dots
‫at the top options and I will uncheck this full ‫screen mode and you can see that this is how it
‫looks like so now I'll be going ahead and I'll be ‫adding the title of the page which is going to be
‫about and now in here I'll be adding the content ‫you can click on here and it says type to choose a
‫block all right so now uh for the content I would ‫recommend you visiting this website that is lipsum
‫dcom now this website is going to really help you ‫when uh you are building a website for a client
‫and you do not know what to write so this website ‫is going to give you the dummy content that you
‫can copy and you can paste on your client website ‫you can submit the website and then when a client
‫approves the design then the client can give you ‫the updated content and then you can actually
‫update the content so this website it keep that in ‫mind add it to your notes this is going to really
‫help you if you are building the website for a ‫client so once you are actually on the lipsum
‫dcom then you have to go down and here it says ‫generate lurm ipsum you can click on that and then
‫it is going to take you to this page from here you ‫can copy the content so let's suppose that I copy
‫the first three paragraphs I can select that and ‫I can press command C or control to copy and now
‫I'll be going back to add new page and now I'll ‫be pasting the content over here now do not worry
‫about how we are going to be designing our Pages ‫how we're going to be adding different things how
‫we're going to be adding animations as we will ‫be learning each and everything step by step in
‫the upcoming lectures and eventually we will be ‫building this website together step by step so
‫do not worry about anything at all once you have ‫got the content then you can actually go and you
‫can publish this page and once you have published ‫this now let's just go ahead and let's visit the
‫website in the new tab and now you can see that ‫we have got this about page over here and you
‫can see that this is how it looks similarly with ‫this content what you can do is that you can make
‫any content to be bold italic like you may have ‫used Microsoft Word in the past or simple Windows
‫notepad so what you can do you can select a text ‫you can click on Bold it's going to be bold you
‫can select any of the text and you can keep it ‫to be italic or you can just select any of the
‫text and you can add a particular link so let's ‫suppose that if any person is going to click on
‫that he will be taking into that particular link ‫like if I select this and then I type in the link
‫as https google.com and then I hit on enter now ‫anyone who is going to be clicking on here like
‫let me just update this and anyone who is going to ‫be clicking on here is going to be redirected to
‫google.com so these are the basic things that you ‫can do right with this basic General editor that
‫WordPress comes by the default similarly you can ‫also add other stuff as well like let's suppose
‫that if you want to add any other thing then you ‫can click on this plus over here and now let's
‫suppose that if you want to add a heading you can ‫click on that and the heading is going to be added
‫right here now you can bring this heading down ‫down at the end or if you want you can bring it
‫up to the top right here and now let's suppose ‫that we want to add a The Heading as who we
‫are after that you can also work with some of ‫these stylings as well like let's suppose that
‫if I want to change the background color so ‫I can click on this background and now I can
‫change any of I can choose any of the color ‫like let's suppose that if I needed to be
‫turned green then you can see that this is how it ‫actually looks like not only that you can also add
‫multiple things as well like if I click on this ‫plus then you can also add a paragraph list and
‫so many other the things so let's suppose that if ‫I actually want to add an image then I can click
‫on that and the image is going to be added now it ‫says upload an image file so what you can do is
‫that on the right side of this lecture uh you will ‫see the resources you can click on that there is
‫going to be a laptop image you can download that ‫and once you're done with that then you can click
‫on the media library and right here this is going ‫to open up a popup then you can drag the image
‫file and you can drop it right here and it's going ‫to be added so once that is added then you can
‫click on the select and you can see that now we ‫also have got uh an image over here so this is how
‫you can go ahead and you can create a basic page ‫using the basic WordPress editor that we have over
‫here and what you can do now you can hit on update ‫and now if we go ahead and we refresh this page
‫you can see that this is how the page looks like ‫so that was all about the page in the comments
‫people will be able to add comments to your post ‫now we will be talking about comments later on
‫in the blog website when we will be building ‫our blog website after that we have got this
‫appearance and if you click on that it is going ‫to take you to the appearance and the themes now
‫currently we have got this 2024 theme which is the ‫default WordPress theme which is activated by the
‫default now let's suppose that if I activate this ‫2023 theme if I click on here it's going to be
‫activated and now if you click on the title over ‫here at the top the look and feel of the website
‫is changed if you go to the about page this is how ‫it looks like if you go to the sample page then
‫this is how it looks like so the look and feel is ‫changed once we actually change the theme now I'll
‫be going ahead and I'll be activating the 2022 ‫theme and let's see what happens so if I click
‫on activate this theme gets activated and now if ‫I refresh the page you can see that the look and
‫feel of the website is changed now I can click ‫on the sample page about and this is how it looks
‫like so what are actually the themes themes are ‫basically the layout of your website that decides
‫the look and feel of your website like how your ‫website is going to look like now I actually want
‫you to install a basic theme rather than using ‫these themes and the reason for that is because uh
‫when we'll be working with a customizer of theme ‫uh themes usually create extra pages some themes
‫usually come with a menu by the default and there ‫are so many of the things that is why I need you
‫to install a basic theme so that uh once we will ‫be basically going forward then I will show you
‫everything step by step and you should know like ‫how a menu is created how everything is working
‫so that is is why I need you to install this theme ‫so how you're going to do that you just have to go
‫into the themes and then you have to click on this ‫add new theme and this is going to basically take
‫you to the WordPress repository which means that ‫you will be able to search for any of the theme
‫and you can download any of the theme you like ‫the most now for now we would actually want to go
‫uh with the basic theme so what you need to do is ‫to uh come up right here in the search themes and
‫search for the 2019 theme now this 2019 theme is ‫also officially by WordPress but this is a really
‫basic theme so what you need to do is to click on ‫install and now this theme is going to be actually
‫downloaded from the WordPress repository onto ‫your WordPress website and once this is actually
‫downloaded then you can hit on activate and now ‫this steam is going to be activated so now if you
‫go ahead and you visit the website again G and ‫you click on your title you can see now the look
‫and feel of the website is fully changed this is a ‫really basic theme and there is also no menu which
‫means that now we can learn everything ourself ‫so make sure that you do install and activate the
‫2019 theme now let's just go ahead and let's talk ‫about the plugins so what are the plugins plugins
‫are basically apps or in other words the add-ons ‫for your website so like let's suppose that when
‫you purchase a mobile phone then that particular ‫mobile phone can let you make a phone call receive
‫a call send a message receive a message and these ‫are the things that the phone can let you do but
‫let's suppose that if you want to edit a picture ‫that you have taken from your phone camera then
‫let's suppose that your phone does not allow you ‫to do that so what you have to do is to go into
‫the app store or the Play store and then you have ‫to search for that app and then that particular
‫app lets you edit your photos that you have on ‫your phone same goes with the plugins so now
‫if I just go ahead and I go to the about page and ‫if I just click on edit page now you can see that
‫WordPress is allowing me to add so many of the ‫things right here that I can add just directly
‫by clicking on that and that is going to be added ‫but WordPress does not allow me to add a contact
‫form on my website so let's suppose that if I want ‫to install or add a contact form on the website
‫then what I can do the answer is really simple I ‫would just have to go into the plugins and like
‫the themes we install a theme we can go into the ‫add new and we can add a contact form plug-in by
‫searching for that and it is going to show us the ‫contact form now if I just click on install this
‫contact form is going to be installed on the ‫website now when you install an app what you
‫have to do is to like go into the menu and then ‫you have to open that app but in the WordPress
‫when you install a plugin you have to activate ‫that plugin by going into the install plugins
‫clicking on activate and then you can actually ‫use that app so when you install an app on the
‫mobile phone the icon of that app appears on the ‫menu same goes with the plugins with some of the
‫plugins when you install that the icon appears ‫right here so if I deactivate you can see that
‫the contact that was here is gone and if I click ‫on activate the icon is right here so this is how
‫the apps or the plugins work in the WordPress now ‫I'll just click on the contact forms so now since
‫this is actually an overview that is why I will ‫not be showing you how we can edit this contact
‫form and everything but I will just show you how ‫the plugin is actually going to work so now you
‫can see that I've got this short code and if I ‫just click on it now I can copy the short code
‫of that by pressing command C or control C and ‫now I can go to my my edit about page and now
‫I can go down and now let's suppose that right ‫down below I want to add the contact form so I
‫can hit on enter and now I can paste this short ‫code and you can see that now this is right here
‫and now I can hit on update now you can see that ‫if I just click on view page and if I go down I
‫now have got the contact form so that's how you ‫can go go ahead and you can add plugins on your
‫website to make your website either much more ‫functional or much more attractive now I'll be
‫going ahead and I'll be deactivating this plugin ‫and I'll be deleting this plugin and we will be
‫actually adding this contact form later on in the ‫course and now if we go ahead and we refresh this
‫about page you can see that this is just acting as ‫a text because WordPress does not know know what
‫to do with this form so now let's just go ahead ‫and let's go to the users in the users there is
‫going to be all of the users that your website is ‫going to contain so like let's suppose that in the
‫future when we will be working with the ecommer ‫website then there will be customers coming onto
‫the website and purchasing the products so all ‫those customers data will be in the users page
‫similarly let's suppose that if you actually want ‫to hire a person to edit any of the thing in your
‫website then you can click on add new and you can ‫add the details of that person and that person
‫will then be able to edit the website so you ‫can assign that person a role like that person
‫is going to be the editor of the website who will ‫be given access to create the pages and everything
‫and he will not be able to like uh delete anything ‫so these type of roles can be added to the users
‫as well similarly in the profile you will be able ‫to edit your profile so like let's suppose that if
‫you want to change the styling like let's suppose ‫that some users like to see uh this color scheme
‫and some users like to see the light color scheme ‫and you might want to use any type of other color
‫scheme for the dashboard like uh the dashboard ‫is much really harsh to your eyes and you do not
‫want to use the default one then you can change ‫that and these type of settings you can do in
‫this profile page similarly you will also be able ‫to actually change your password so like you can
‫see that our password was asdfgh now if I want to ‫change the password to Q wordt I can select that
‫and now I can confirm the US of week password ‫and now I can hit on update profile and now my
‫password is going to be updated so now if I log in ‫using my previous password I will not be able to
‫log in so these type of uh things you can do in ‫the profile and then we have got the tools that
‫is going to contain like whether you want to ‫import your website to uh any other website or
‫you want to export your website you can do these ‫type of things in the tools and similarly in the
‫settings you will be able to change the settings ‫of your website now we will be talking about
‫these settings later on as we will be progressing ‫with this course because you can see that there
‫are actually so many of the settings now I do not ‫want you to get confused and that is why I cannot
‫just tell you the settings right now because ‫different projects require different settings
‫and when we will be working with those projects ‫in the future then we will be relating with those
‫settings and I will show you what this setting is ‫actually going to do and then you will be able to
‫understand that much better finally we have got ‫this collapse menu and if you click on this your
‫menu is going to be collapsed and if you click on ‫this your menu is then going to be open so this
‫was actually the dashboard overview now if you ‫are getting overwhelmed a bit I just want to say
‫that do not worry you have got this course and ‫you have got the lifetime access to this course
‫so just take it at your own paas you can come ‫back as often as you like as you have got the
‫lifetime access also I'm just a one single click ‫away so if you face any difficulty you know that
‫you can just post a question and I will reply to ‫your question as soon as possible so do not worry
‫and from the upcoming lectures I will be showing ‫you how you can actually build this website step
‫by step and over my shoulder you will be able ‫to see how you can Implement each and everything