Hiding the Toolbar
You can stop the Toolbar from displaying by modifying the preferences associated with your Profile. Simply click on the Users link in the left hand navigation to display the list of Users. From this list of Users, click your user name or click on the Edit link that appears beneath the user name when hovering your cursor over each row. Alternatively, click on the Your Profile link underneath the Users menu option in the left hand navigation or within the fly-out menu.
When editing your Profile there is a Toolbar option as shown in the screen above.
- Show Toolbar when viewing site – Checking this box will display the
Toolbar at the very top of your website (only for the person who is currently logged in) In WordPress 3.3 the header area was merged with the Toolbar and there is no longer an option to hide the Toolbar in the Dashboard as there was previously.
Posts
After clicking on the Posts menu option you’ll be shown a list of Posts that your site contains. Among the information displayed is the Post title, the Author, Categories, Tags, No. of Comments and either the Date Published, Date Scheduled or the Date the Post was Last Modified. The Posts screen will look similar to the screen below.
At the top of the page you can view how many Posts in total you have in your site, how many are Published, Scheduled, Sticky, and Pending, in Draft or in the Trash. When hovering your cursor over each row, a few links will appear beneath the Post title.
- Edit – Will allow you to edit your Post. This is the same as clicking on the Post title
- Quick Edit – Allows you to edit basic Post information such as Title, Slug, Date plus a few other options
- Trash – Will send the Post to the Trash. Once the ‘Trash’ is emptied, the page is deleted
- View – Displays the Post Next to each Post title is a checkbox. This allows you to perform an action on multiple items at once. You simply check the Posts that you would like to affect and then from the Bulk Actions drop-down select either the Edit option or the Move to Trash option and then click the Apply button. The Edit option will allow you to edit the Categories, Tags, Author, whether to allow Comments and Pings or not, the Status and whether or not the Posts are ‘Sticky’. The Move to Trash option will move the selected items to the Trash. You can also filter the pages that are displayed using the drop-down lists and the Filter button. At the top of the list of Posts there are also two icons that change how the list is displayed. Click the List View icon ( ) to display the posts in the traditional List View or click the Excerpt View icon ( ) to display a short excerpt from the Post underneath the Post title.
Pages
After clicking on the Pages menu option you’ll be shown a list of Pages that your site contains. Among the information displayed is the Page title, the Author, No. of Comments and either the Date published or the Date the Page was Last Modified. The Pages screen will look similar to screen below.
At the top of the page you can view how many Pages in total you have in your site and how many are Published or in Draft. When hovering your cursor over each row, a few links will appear beneath the Page title.
- Edit – Will allow you to edit your Page. This is the same as clicking on the Page title
- Quick Edit – Allows you to edit basic Page information such as Title, Slug, Date plus a few other options
- Trash – Will send the Page to the Trash. Once the Trash is emptied, the page is deleted
- View – Displays the Page Next to each Page title is a checkbox. This allows you to perform an action on multiple items at once. You simply check the Pages that you would like to affect and then from the Bulk Actions drop-down select either the Edit option or the Move to Trash option and then click the Apply button. The Edit option will allow you to edit the Author, Parent, Template, whether to allow Comments or not and the Status of each of the checked items. The Move to Trash option will move the selected items to the Trash. You can also filter the pages that are displayed using the drop-down list and the Filter button.
Adding your Site Content
Adding content to your site is an easy process no matter whether you’re creating a Post or a Page. The procedure for both is almost identical. Apart from how they display on your site, which was described earlier, the other main difference is that Posts allow you to associate Categories and Tags whereas Pages don’t. What’s the difference between categories and tags? Normally, Tags are ad-hoc keywords that identify important information in your Post (names, subjects, etc) that may or may not recur in other Posts, while Categories are pre-determined sections. If you think of your site like a book, the Categories are like the Table of Contents and the Tags are like the terms in the index.
Adding a New Page
To add a new Page, hover your cursor over the Pages menu option in the left hand navigation menu and in the fly-out menu, click the Add New link. Alternatively, click the Pages menu option and then click the Add New link underneath, or the Add New button at the top of the page. You will be presented with a page similar to the image below.
Adding a New Post
To add a new Post, hover over the Posts menu option in the left hand navigation menu and in the fly-out menu, click the Add New link. Alternatively, click the Posts menu option and then click the Add New link underneath, or the Add New button at the top of the page. You will be presented with a page similar to the image below.
