WordPress Dashboard

Once logged in you’ll have access to the WordPress Dashboard. Below, key areas of the Dashboard are identified.

1. My Sites: If you have access to multiple sites, this area allows you to switch between them through My Sites.

2. “Your Site Name”: Where you toggle to the front end of your website. When logged in, you can click this link to toggle back to the dashboard when viewing your site.

3. Posts: Where the Posts of your Blog live.

4. Ninja Tables Pro: Where you can build and administer your site’s Ninja Tables.

5. Media: When images or PDFs are uploaded, they live under Media. They appear in the order they were uploaded, with most recent first.

6. Forms: Where you can build and administer your site’s Gravity Forms.

7. Pages: Where the Pages of your site live. Also, where you go to add new Pages.

8. Announcements: If you are using Announcements, this is where you create and maintain those Announcements.

9. Department Events: If you are using Department Events, this is where you create and maintain those Department Events.

10. Staff: If you are using the Staff Block, this is where you’ll add and maintain your staff members’ information.

11. Appearance: Under Appearance > Menu is where you will maintain your site’s top Menu.

12. Users: Where an administrator can add or remove users.

13. Settings: Under Settings > General you can update your site’s title, and under Settings > Reading > Homepage you can choose a new page as your site’s homepage. You can also change your site’s visibility.

14. Site Options: Where other settings live for indexing, breadcrumbs, Site Owners, Footer and Blog Options.

15: Yoast SEO: If your department’s website needs to rank better in search engines like Google or you’d like to customize your Social Media previews, then you should use the third-party plugin Yoast.

16. Shortcodes: If you need to add code to your website (like a map or embed), then it will need to be placed in a shortcode first. All your site’s Shortcodes will be stored here.

17. Instagram Feed: This is a third-party plugin that allows you to set up social feeds to add to your pages.

18. Dashboard Reports: Alerts you to issues with your website.

19. AI Assistant: A chatbot to help answer your questions about using the Wake Forest WordPress system.

20. WordPress Guide Resources: Links to this guide and our Web Request Form.

21. Quick Actions: Links to common WordPress actions.

22. From the WordPress Team: An archive of our most recent updates.

23. Service Level Agreement: Our document outlining the level of service and support we provide, as well as your responsibilities.

24. Siteimprove: A tool that helps you find and fix issues on your website.