WordPress:Dashboard SubPanel
Dashboard
The Dashboard is a tool to quickly access the most used areas of your blog's Administration. In addition, the Dashboard gives you glimpses in other areas of the WordPress community.
The WordPress:Dashboard SubPanel provides you a number of links to start writing [[WordPress:#Post|Posts]] or [[WordPress:#Page|Pages]], statistics and links on the number of posts, pages, [[WordPress:#Categories|Categories]], and [[WordPress:#Tags|Tags]]. A Recent Comments box shows the number of [[WordPress:#Comments|Comments]] awaiting moderation and a list of the recent comments. Configurable boxes of Incoming Links, and RSS feeds from the WordPress Development Blog, the Plugins blog, and Planet WordPress are also displayed.
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Right Now
The Right Now red banner highlights two links, Write a New Post, and Write a New Page, that enable you to immediately jump to those important functions.
Next, content statistics are display, in the form of links that direct you to the specific area to manage that content. Example:
You have 50 posts, 8 pages, 3 drafts, 2 scheduled posts, contained within 14 categories and 25 tags.
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Recent Comments
A list of the most Recent Comments on your blog is detailed in this box. A link to see All comments is available in the top right corner. If there are comments that need moderation, a link is provided to do that. In addition, each comment listed provides a link to view the post or view the comment.
- See All
- In the form of a link, takes you to http://blogsearch.google.com to see all the incoming links for your blog.
Incoming Links
Incoming Links shows the 'external' Links to sites referring to your blog. In the top right corner of the box, links allow you to see All the Incoming Links, Edit the RSS feed information that provides the Incoming Links, and a RSS link to the actual feed.
- See All
- In the form of a link, takes you to http://blogsearch.google.com to see All the Incoming Links for your blog.
- Edit
- When clicked, you can control the information displayed in the box. Click the Cancel button to cancel the Edit.
- Enter the RSS feed URL here: - enter the feed source to acquire your incoming links
- How many items would you like to display? - end how many incoming links should be displayed
- Display item date? - check this box to display the date on each incoming link
- Save - click this button to save your Edit changes.
- RSS
- The actual link to the feed being used for Incoming Links.
WordPress Development Blog
This Dashboard box lists "the latest news from the official WordPress development blog." Here you can find out what the WordPress developers have been up to recently and keep up with the latest WordPress related news. In addition to software developments such as version announcements and security notices, news about the WordPress community in general is periodically posted.
- See All
- In the form of a link, takes you to WordPress:http://www.wordpress.org/development/ WordPress Development Blog to see all the posts.
- Edit
- When clicked, you can control the information displayed in the box. Click the Cancel button to cancel the Edit.
- Enter the RSS feed URL here: - URL to the feed, defaults to http://wordpress.org/development/feed/
- Give the feed a title (optional): - description (title of the box) of this feed, defaults to WordPress Developement Blog.
- How many items would you like to display? - use the pulldown box to select the number of items to display.
- Display item content? - check this box to display an excerpt of the content.
- Display item author if available? - check this box to display the post author
- Display item date?- check this box to display the date on the post
- Save - click this button to save your Edit changes.
- RSS
- The actual link to the feed being used.
Plugins
The Plugins box displays the Most Popular, Newest, and Most Recently Updated Plugins, as seen at WordPress Extend Plugins site].
- See All
- In the form of a link, takes you to WordPress Extend Plugins ] to see a all the plugins.
- RSS
- The actual link to the feed being used for Incoming Links.
Other WordPress News
And in this box, there are titles of posts and links to other blogs devoted to the WordPress community.
- See All
- In the form of a link, takes you to WordPress:http://planet.wordpress.org// Planet WordPress to see all the posts.
- Edit
- When clicked, you can control the information displayed in the box. Click the Cancel button to cancel the Edit.
- Give the feed a title (optional): - description (title of the box) of this feed, defaults to Other WordPress News.
- Enter the RSS feed URL here: - URL to the feed, defaults to http://planet.wordpress.org/feed/
- How many items would you like to display? - use the pulldown box to select the number of items to display.
- Save - click this button to save your Edit changes.
- RSS
- The actual link to the feed being used.
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