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Dashboard

The Dashboard is the first screen you see when you log 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, view your draft posts, 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 like a bird’s eye view of operations, from which you can swoop down into the particular details.

Dashboard

The Dashboard contains the following modules:

  • Right Now
  • QuickPress
  • Recent Comments
  • Recent Drafts
  • Your Stuff
  • What’s Hot
  • Stats

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Right Now

The Right Now module offers an “at-a-glance” look at your blog’s 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.

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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.

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Recent Comments

The Recent Comments module has a lot of new functionality to make working with comments quick and easy from the Dashboard.

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If you hover your mouse over one of the listed comments, action links will appear, letting you Approve/Unapprove, Reply, Edit, See the History, Mark as Spam, or Trash.

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If you click on the Reply action link, a form will appear, letting you reply to the comment directly from the Dashboard.

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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.

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Your Stuff

The Your Stuff module displays links to your recent activity on WordPress.com. The module will display links to comments you’ve left on other WordPress.com blogs as well as links to posts on any of your blogs where you’ve recently made changes.

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What’s Hot

What’s Hot is a module to show links to:

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Stats

The Stats module is a favorite of many users. It’ll show you a graph of your blog’s traffic as well as links to some popular areas of your blog. The graph works just like the graphs on the Site Stats screens, so you can click a point to see more information about that day’s traffic.

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You can learn more about stats over here.

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Configuring the Dashboard

Just like many of the administration screens, you can configure the Dashboard by showing/hiding, opening/closing, and moving modules.

Still confused?

Contact support.