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Use WordPress

Use WordPress - WordPress Tutorial

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Use WordPress

- [Instructor] With WordPress now installed we can log in and take a look around. So let's grab our chosen password from our wordpress text file. And now we can visit the log in page for our WordPress site. Here we enter our chosen username, then enter the password and click Log In. After you log in you'll arrive at the WordPress Dashboard. Here in the admin area you can adjust settings, install plugins, customize the theme, and manage everything for your WordPress site. This is where you will do all of your work with WordPress and it is where the action happens. On most pages here in the admin area you can customize various aspects of the interface by clicking the Screen Options button. For example, from the Dashboard we can choose which panels we want to display. Which enables us to customize the look and feel at any time. Let's take a quick tour of the various screens available in the admin area. This is where you check…

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