User Guide

Right Now

Various stats, such as how many posts,pages and comments do you have on your

site? The version of WordPress and the theme you are using. The theme is the

“look and feel” of your website, more on themes later.

If your website has been setup for your with some pages and/or posts then this

will show how many you have.

If your website is “out of the box” then you’ll have 1 page and 1 post, just for

demonstration purposes.

Recent Comments

If you enable comments on your pages and blog posts, then this will list recent

comments and allow you to quickly approve them, or whatever.

Incoming Links

Which sites are linking to your site?

Plugins

These provide additional features and functionality to your site, ignore for now.

Quickpress

If your website is a blog, you can quickly add a post here.

Recent Drafts

If you’ve been working on posts or pages, you can quickly return to recent draft

versions.

WordPress 3 User Guide" Chapter 3: Using WordPress