Understanding your WordPress Dashboard to Manage it Better

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