The
Dashboard will be the first thing that will be displayed on the computer screen
whenever you log into your blog as the admin. Basically the key reason of a
dashboard is to provide the administrator an easy access to every contents and
manage what you want the viewers to see and what contents you would like to
keep hidden.
We have
witnessed the evolution of dashboards into a wide spectrum in recent years.
WordPress dashboard has generated into a flexible gate for providing any
information relating to your website. It not only enables you the accessibility
to the main components of your site but also to the minutest data on everything
that is happening on your website.
The Contents of a
Dashboard
A WordPress
dashboard comprises of the following modules:
At a Glance
This module
is something that offers an “at-a-glance” look at your blog’s posts, pages,
comments, theme, and spam. It shows the storage space allowed for uploading
your contents and also the spaces you have already used. It provides you with
the count of your total comments and spam caught by Akismet (this is a spam filtering service that blocks spam from getting to your blog).
Quick Draft
With Quick
Draft you can instantly create content from the Dashboard as it acts as a
mini-post editor. By adding a title and body text in the post you can save it
as a draft. With this module you are just a click away from accessing your most
recent drafts and editing them as per your requirement.
Activity
It shows the
comment that has been made to your post, it allows you the admin authority to
approve/un-approve, reply directly to the commenter, edit, see the comment
history, mark comments as spam or trash them.
Your Stuff
This module
shows all the links of your recent activity on WordPress by displaying links to
comments you have made on other WordPress blogs and the posts you have
published or edited recently.
What’s Hot
It displays
a list of the most recent posts from WordPress.com News blog and also shows a
category of all the top blogs, top posts and the latest posts.
Stats
It shows you
a statistical measure of your blog by showing a graph of the traffic you have
received on your blog. It also links the most popular aspects of your blog
contents and on clicking a point you will be able to obtain more information on
the number of traffics of any given day.
There are
many options available to customize your WordPress site using your theme’s
functions.php file (It is a function for
changing the default behaviors of WordPress, it works like a Plugin by adding
features and functionality to a site). The Functions.php file offers you a
direct control over the site’s functionality