WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:06.270 Now you have a WordPress installation for your own Web site whether it's through server press or through 00:06.270 --> 00:07.830 your own hosting. 00:07.890 --> 00:13.830 The first thing that opens up is this welcome mat and if you want WordPress can help guide you through 00:13.830 --> 00:14.990 building your own web site. 00:15.000 --> 00:19.230 But for those of you in this class you probably don't need any help because that's what I'm here for. 00:19.230 --> 00:21.470 So just click the I don't need help button. 00:21.510 --> 00:23.220 This is your home page. 00:23.220 --> 00:26.110 This is the dashboard of wordpress. 00:26.190 --> 00:32.870 And in this video I just want to quickly go over the main menu and help you navigate getting around 00:32.880 --> 00:33.960 WordPress. 00:33.960 --> 00:39.940 You can see on the left hand side a menu with different options right now are highlighted on the dashboard. 00:39.960 --> 00:42.320 And that's because were on the dashboard. 00:42.360 --> 00:44.490 There's a lot of things happening right now. 00:44.520 --> 00:51.660 And when you first install WordPress a lot of things are going to be needed to be updated or installed 00:51.720 --> 00:58.200 because with the latest versions of Wordpress depending on who you're hosting with they will already 00:58.200 --> 01:02.450 come pre-installed with certain plug ins or with certain tools. 01:02.580 --> 01:08.460 For example with blue us we already have this blue host this marketplace option things you might not 01:08.460 --> 01:12.810 see if you're using server press contact form opt in Monster. 01:12.810 --> 01:15.510 These are plug ins that are pre-installed. 01:15.510 --> 01:20.640 When we installed via blue host Don't worry if you don't see these dots that's OK. 01:20.700 --> 01:24.640 The main things you need to know are the dashboard This is your home page. 01:24.700 --> 01:29.790 We're going to learn how to customize it and really dive into what you can do on your home page in a 01:29.790 --> 01:33.030 future lesson going down the left hand menu. 01:33.030 --> 01:34.560 We have this first plug in. 01:34.560 --> 01:37.610 It's kind of an all star plug in called jet pack. 01:37.680 --> 01:40.510 And this comes with a ton of cool tools. 01:40.530 --> 01:45.780 We're going to be going over all the different plug ins and tools that I recommend in a later section 01:46.440 --> 01:48.750 below that we have our posts. 01:48.780 --> 01:54.000 Now when you hover over some of these menu items a different sub menu pops up. 01:54.000 --> 02:00.030 So for example under posts you can click all post to view all of the posts you've written in posts. 02:00.030 --> 02:03.600 Think of posts as your articles or your blog posts. 02:03.720 --> 02:08.040 You can click add new or you can see your categories and tags media. 02:08.040 --> 02:12.990 This is all of your uploads such as photos or files that you upload pages. 02:12.990 --> 02:15.990 These are all the pages of your website. 02:16.170 --> 02:22.150 Again you see the sub menu where you can view all pages or you can click add new to add a new page. 02:22.170 --> 02:27.150 I'm going to skip over a contact form because that's only for this install of wordpress. 02:27.180 --> 02:32.440 You have comments so if you have comments on your Web site you can moderate them their appearance. 02:32.460 --> 02:39.330 This is a very important one where you were going to customize your theme your menus what everything 02:39.330 --> 02:44.250 looks like and we're going to be diving into this in the next lesson including installing and finding 02:44.250 --> 02:45.380 a new theme. 02:45.390 --> 02:49.790 Plug ins are all kinds of tools that you can install for your website. 02:49.800 --> 02:57.720 Doing everything from commenting security contact form social media sharing SEO all kinds of things 02:57.840 --> 03:00.030 happen with the plugins users. 03:00.110 --> 03:05.430 You can add users to your Web site if you want to have other authors or other people who help with their 03:05.430 --> 03:06.060 web site. 03:06.060 --> 03:08.520 That's in this user manual tools. 03:08.520 --> 03:14.880 This is another menu that when you do install certain plugins you might actually have more tools appear 03:14.880 --> 03:21.990 under this menu and then same with settings where we have some basic settings for how our Web site works 03:21.990 --> 03:25.770 in terms of which page is the home page vs the blog page. 03:25.840 --> 03:31.650 If comments appear are not different things that we'll be covering in the rest of this course up at 03:31.650 --> 03:38.200 the very top you have our site title which we didn't edit when we installed WordPress via blue host. 03:38.340 --> 03:40.700 But we're going to edit that in a moment. 03:40.710 --> 03:44.210 And if you want to view your site you can just click this view site button. 03:44.370 --> 03:47.160 Then you have these different icons up here. 03:47.160 --> 03:50.000 Some refer to the comments if you have any comments. 03:50.010 --> 03:55.950 You have a new button if you want to easily and quickly add a new post page user or upload new media 03:56.280 --> 04:02.010 and then for me I have this marketplace which is there because I downloaded via a blue host and so there's 04:02.010 --> 04:04.040 different marketplace options. 04:04.090 --> 04:06.710 So let me just click on that and I'll show you what it looks like. 04:06.750 --> 04:12.390 So because I installed with blue hose blue host gives us all kinds of tools and things that we can use 04:12.750 --> 04:14.530 right within our WordPress site. 04:14.550 --> 04:20.070 We're not going to use this tool because I'm going to be showing you free tools and other plug ins that 04:20.070 --> 04:21.480 I suggest using. 04:21.480 --> 04:27.140 So back to our site I clicked visit site and it opened up this new tab and here is our website. 04:27.150 --> 04:29.580 It's already up there live. 04:29.580 --> 04:31.870 And if anyone goes to it you can see this. 04:31.890 --> 04:35.390 Now at this point if you actually go to Aberdare designs dot com. 04:35.400 --> 04:36.630 It might not be live. 04:36.630 --> 04:42.390 I'm probably not going to publish it for the world to see but if you have created your website and you 04:42.390 --> 04:43.430 share your link. 04:43.590 --> 04:45.240 This is what it's going to look like. 04:45.270 --> 04:50.110 Now WordPress has preinstalled a theme that I am using right now. 04:50.130 --> 04:55.560 Each year WordPress comes out with a custom theme so this is the 20:17 theme. 04:55.560 --> 05:01.340 But we're going to be looking into installing a new theme in the next lesson so that's the basic WordPress 05:01.370 --> 05:02.230 layout. 05:02.380 --> 05:06.550 The main thing when you log in is you'll appear on your dashboard. 05:06.600 --> 05:09.750 And one other thing I'll mention is updates. 05:09.760 --> 05:15.460 This is something you should do every time you log in go under dashboard to the updates to see if there 05:15.460 --> 05:17.650 are any updates for your website. 05:17.650 --> 05:22.980 This might include updates for plug ins for themes or for Wordpress itself. 05:23.020 --> 05:29.500 Right now I'm using WordPress version point 7.2 but sometimes WordPress does get a facelift or some 05:29.500 --> 05:32.400 sort of update that might have to do with security. 05:32.410 --> 05:38.620 So you want to make sure that you're updating to the latest forms of your plug ins or themes or whatever. 05:38.650 --> 05:45.300 So to do that you will click on whatever needs to be updated and then click Update plugins. 05:45.310 --> 05:50.020 Now there are other ways to update individual plug ins via that plug in page but that's the easiest 05:50.020 --> 05:53.070 way right from this update page. 05:53.080 --> 06:00.250 Now I've updated that plug in that was already pre-installed and I have no more notifications for updates. 06:00.250 --> 06:04.240 Cool so that's it for the dashboard right now in the next lesson. 06:04.240 --> 06:06.400 I'm going to show you how to install a new theme.