Your can access your wordpress blog administration area by just appending /wp-admin/ to your blog address (i.e. http://www.blogdesigncenter.com/wp-admin/) or append /wp-login.php (i.e. http://www.blogdesigncenter.com/wp-login.php)
That opens a login form where you enter a username and password to login. After filling out and submitting the proper login information, you will be redirected to your blog admin panel’s dashboard.
Since version 2.7.1 (the current version at the time of writing of this post) the WordPress admin interface has became more intuitive. Administrative functions are grouped in collapsible tabbed panels on the left-hand side column.
You will find the:
- Dashboard tab where you find a link to the actual dashboard page where you will land once you login to your blog admin panel. You might also see other links depending on the active plugins your blog has.
- Posts tab contains links to add new posts, edit existing posts, manage tags, create new categories for a thematic grouping of your posts. Of course you can editing existing categories from the very same Categories link.
- Media tab contains a link to the media library containing all your uploaded pictures, movies, audio and other multimedia files. You can also use “Add New” to insert a new multimedia files to your library for later use in your posts or pages.
- Links tab add a new link, edit existing links or create link categories. Links create in here will be display in the blogroll section of your blog. They can be links to other posts or pages within your site/blog or links to valuable resources located on another site in the worldwide web.
- Pages tab section where you can add a new page or edit existing pages. You will later learn the subtle difference between posts and pages.
- Comments section allows you to see and manage all comments made by your blog visitors. In here, you can moderate comments, delete SPAM.
- Appearance tab is where you can switch from one theme to another from the list of themes available in your blog.
- Plugins tab where you will see all the plugins currently uploaded in your blog.
- Tools tab gives you access to the array tools provided by WordPress. That includes importing, exporting and upgrade functions.
- Settings tab opens access to your blog general settings. You can define here settings such as your blog title and name, choosing the permalinks options for your posts URL format, adjust settings of some active plugins, define admin panel users profiles, access levels and more.
All this information might seem overwhelming if not confusing at first.
Our custom blog design service includes a 2 hours training to get you familiar with your blog admin panel. After that you will realize how intuitive and easy to use WordPress is.
The Posts and Comments are the only two main sections you will be dealing with more often once we have your blog setup and running. Rest assured we will give a full 2 hours hands-on training on how to use the various panels of your wordpress admin area.
Hi, I had some problem. I m new in wordpress. Just i changed wordpress site url. So i cant access my admin area. Now what i do. Is anyone can help me.
Hi Benny,
When you decide to change your blog URL, you would do that first from the admin panel because all that information needs to be updated in the database first from the section Settings > General -> Site Address.
If you have the possibility to temporary change your blog URL back to what it was then you make that update in less than a minute.
If no,t you would then log into your web hosting account admin panel. Once you locate the MySQL database then open the table named wp_options (if wp_ is the default prefix for your database tables).
The first option will be generally siteurl in the column option_name. Edit that record to change the option_value to your new blog URL.