User Guide

Chapter 3: Using WordPress

ASSUMPTIONS

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You know how to log in as administrator

WHAT WILL YOU COVER THIS

CHAPTER?

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Front end and Back end - what these are!

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Using the Administration Back End

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The Dashboard

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Understanding Permalinks

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Changing your site Home Page to a page, instead of your blog

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A walkthrough of all the Administration Menus

FRONT END AND BACK END

When referring to a website, the “front end” describes what a visitor to your

website will view, it is the result of all your hard work.

However, when you are creating your website or blog, you will add new posts

and pages, changes settings, and so on .... this is the “back end”.

The database can be included in the back end as this is potentially something

that the website administrator may need to access.

However, it is unlikely that a typical WordPress administrator will ever have to

access the database that supports his website.

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