Dashboard
Comments, Drafts, Links, Posts, Stats, Writing
Contents
- Default Dashboard
- Right Now
- QuickPress
- Recent Comments
- Recent Drafts
- Incoming Links
- Your Stuff
- What's Hot
- Stats
- Configuring the Dashboard
- Video
Related
- Browser Issues
- December 2008 Dashboard Changes
- FTP Access
- Geotagging
- Getting More Views and Traffic
- Getting Started
- Introduction to WordPress.com
- Making a screenshot
- My Blogs
- PayPal
- Register a Blog
- Shortcodes
- Support Options
- Using WordPress.com through the Twitter API
- WordPress Logos
- WordPress Status
- WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
The Dashboard is the first screen you see when logging into the administration area of your blog. The main idea of the dashboard is to give you a place where you can get an at a glance overview of what’s happening with your blog. You can catch up on news, see which posts you’ve been working on in draft, see who’s linking to you or how popular your content’s been, quickly put out a no-frills post, or check out and moderate your latest comments. It’s kind of like a bird’s eye view of operations, from which you can swoop down into the particular details.
Default Dashboard
The Dashboard (by default) will look like the following:
Right Now
The Right Now module offers an “at a glance” look at your blog’s use of posts, pages, categories, and tags. Click on the number and you’ll be taken to the associated screen. There is also a count of total, approved, pending, and spam comments. You can also click on the numbers to load the appropriate comments screen. Below this info are some links to get you into themes, widgets, or the spam queue.
QuickPress
QuickPress is a mini-post editor that allows instant content creation from the Dashboard. You can include a title, body text, media files, and tags in the post, and have the option of saving it as a draft or publishing immediately. For additional options such as adding categories or setting a future publish date, you should use the Add New Post screen. Watch a video about “Getting a post out quickly with QuickPress” on WordPress.tv.
Recent Comments
The Recent Comments module has a lot of new functionality to make working with comments quick and easy from the Dashboard. It will show up to 5 of the latest comments for your blog.
If you hover your mouse over one of the listed comments, action links will appear, letting you Approve/Unapprove, Edit, Reply, Mark as Spam, or Delete.
If you click on the Reply action link, a form will appear, letting you reply to the comment directly from the Dashboard.
Recent Drafts
The Recent Drafts module displays links to your most recent drafts, allowing one-click access from the Dashboard. If you create drafts using QuickPress, they will appear in this module immediately.
Incoming Links
Incoming Links will use Google Blog Search to display other blogs that have linked to your blog.
Your Stuff
The Your Stuff module displays links to your recent activity on WordPress.com. The module will display links to comments you have left on other WordPress.com blog as well as links to any posts on any of your blogs where you’ve recently make a change.
What’s Hot
What’s Hot is a module to show links to:
- Recent posts from the WordPress.com News blog
- Top WordPress.com blogs
- Top Posts from around WordPress.com
- Fastest Growing WordPress.com blogs
Stats
The Stats module is a favorite of many users. It’ll show you a graph of blog’s traffic as well as links to some popular areas of your blog. The graph works just like the graphs on the Blogs Stats screens, so you can click a point to see more information about that day’s traffic.
Configuring the Dashboard
Just like many of the administration screens, you can configure the Dashboard by showing/hiding, opening/closing, and moving modules.
Video
Watch the “The WordPress.com dashboard – introduction” video from WordPress.tv.
Watch the “Diving into drafts from the dashboard” video from WordPress.tv.
Last modified: January 5, 2010
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