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Once you have logged into your WordPress website, you will come to your main administration screen as seen below. This screen is known as your dashboard and will be referred to often as you learn how to manage your website.

You’ll notice here that there’s a great deal of information showing here in a series of widgets. You can organise this information to best suit you, moving widgets around and expanding or contracting them in whichever you find appropriate.

To move a widget, click and drag the bar of the widget around. To roll it up, simply click on the right hand edge of the bar where you’ll see an arrow appear.

On the left hand side, you’ll notice that there’s a list of links or admin panels such as Posts, Media, Links and so on. Navigation of the admin panels in WordPress is pretty straightforward, but it can feel like there are a bewildering range of options to choose from.

The main admin panels are a series of links that you can easily click on to expand the sub-pages that give you allow you quick access to a number of tasks or views such as viewing all pages or adding a post. The quick reference below reveals the range of functions, with a brief explanation alongside:

Related posts:

1. Post options
2. Adding links to your posts or pages
3. Adding to/Editing your Menus
4. The difference between posts and pages
5. Page options