Because your blog admin panel is password protected you need to log in first in order to get access to your blog content management area.The login form page address is generally something like your blog web address followed by “/wp-login.php”.
For instance this blog web address is http://www.blogdesigncenter.com. Therefore the login page can be seen by just typing http://www.blogdesigncenter.com/wp-login.php in your web browser’s address box.
In case you installed your blog in a subdirectory “blog” of your main web site with the domain name “mywebsite.com“:
- Your website address would be: http://www.mywebsite.com
- Your blog address is hence: http://www.mywebsite.com/blog
- therefore the login are to your blog admin panel can be reached through http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/wp-login.php
For those who setup their blog as a sub-domain “blog” of their main domain name, the blog address would be http://www.blog.mywebsite.com. In that case you can login to the blog admin area through http://www.blog.mywebsite.com/wp-login.php
Once the login form is displayed, you can just provide your username and password then click the “Log in” button to proceed. If you provide the proper credentials, correct username and password, you will then be granted access to the admin panel otherwise you will be shown an error message and more chance to log in.
Depending on your role as a user of that blog you may be presented a dashboard with more or less features. The WordPress CMS defines 5 different roles any given user has been assigned in blog:
- subscriber
- contributor
- editor
- author
- administrator
The subscriber role has the lowest access level. A subscriber is just a regular blog visitor who has opted to receive email and notifications from the blog administrator whenever some newsworthy event occurs in that blog say for example a new article is just published.
The administrator level as you guessed it is the highest level. The administrator has full access to features and functions provided in the WordPress blog admin panel: installing and activating a new theme, adding/assigning role to user, creating posts/pages, managing plug-ins, moderating comments from the blog readers and so on.
Contributor, editor and author roles, as their respective definitions suggest, are centered into creating, editing and publishing articles within the WordPress CMS.
