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Overview: This user guide will acquaint you with the basic functions of the blog administration system. The blog’s admin module helps you to perform the following tasks.
- Write: Create posts & pages, and add contents
- Manage: Change your content
- Comments: The comments subpanel helps to modify or delete content found in comments to your posts.
- Blogroll: This administration panel handles all link management, including creation, editing, organizing, and importing.
- Presentation: Change the look of your blog .
- Plugin: The plugins subpanel allows you to view the plugins you’ve downloaded and choose which plugins you want activated on your site, thus adding functionality to your blog.
- Users: At the users administration panel, you can set up all of the user accounts, assign roles and also specify your and other’s personal information.
- Options: Displays all the configuration settings that define the web log.
 

Write – Posts
The first page you see after logging in is called the dashboard. It helps to keep you up to date on list of the most recent activity you’ve done on your site. The Write > Post subpanel allows you to create new posts and edit existing ones.
 
The process of entering your writing in WordPress is:
1. Click on ‘write post’ tab.
2. Enter the post’s title in the ‘Title’ textbox.
3. Type in the actual contents of the post in the ‘Post’ textbox.
4. Choose a category if present from the left side menu or enter a new ‘Category’ & click on ‘Add’.
5. If you have images to upload to your site, click on ‘Browse’ button in the upload section, type in the ‘Title’ & ‘Description’ (optional) for the image & click on ‘Upload’ button
6. Click on the ‘Publish’ button & the post is available live on the main site.
User can also draft & save the post for publishing at a later stage. When the day and time you select arrives, the system automatically publishes the post on your blog.

Manage – Change your content
All of the actual contents of the site can be managed through this admin panel. From here you can see lists of all your Posts, Pages, and Categories and edit or view anything in those lists.
Clicking on ‘Manage’ by default displays the manage posts subpanel where you can edit and delete existing posts. The manage pages subpanel is essentially the same as at the manage posts subpanel.

Uploads
Using the ‘Upload’ administration panel, users can edit information and delete uploads that were previously uploaded via the upload option when writing posts and pages. Note that the ‘Miscellaneous Options’ subpanel, uploading, describes the location and structure of the upload directory.

Categories
The Manage Categories subpanel allows you to create new categories, edit or delete existing ones, and organize your categories hierarchically. Each post and link in the website is filed under one or more categories. This aids in navigation and allows posts and links to be grouped with others of similar nature.

Checking Comments
On the Manage > Comments panel, you can inspect the comments posted to your site. If a comment has been marked for moderation approval, it will be a lighter color than the rest of the comments. Simply click ‘Edit Comment’ to access the comment. If it’s fine, set it to be approved. If it’s SPAM, select ‘Delete Comment’ and it’s gone forever! Users can also search for specific comments.

Manage Blogroll
The Manage Blogroll subpanel is the main subpanel for link administration. Here you can view all your links, or just the links from a particular category. Upon clicking the ‘Edit’ button, this page transforms into a view of just that one link, and you are able to change all of the options for that link.

Add Link: The Add Link subpanel handles the creation of new links.
Import Links: Here you can import links from other blogs, via various websites.

Presentation
The Presentation Administration Panel helps to control how the content of your weblog is displayed.

Plugins
Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of the blog, it offers custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs.

Users and Authors
Users panel tab allows you to register new users who can submit articles, If you do allow users to post articles, be sure to check the Manage > Posts for any newly posted articles in the drafts area awaiting your review and release. In addition, you can search for users, and you can make bulk changes and deletions to a selected group of users.
 
The Authors and Users subpanel allows you to add, change, or delete your site’s users, scroll down to create users. Users can be assigned any of these five pre-defined roles and each role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called capabilities.
1. Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features.
2. Editor – Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
3. Author – Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
4. Contributor – Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts.
5. Subscriber – Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters, etc.
 

Sign Out: The Sign out link is found at the top right corner in the administration panel. It is simply a link that will log you out from your WordPress blog.

Webfolders on Microsoft Vista
- On the desktop right click on “Network”
- Select “Map Network Drive”
- Choose any of the drive letters
- Enter the “Webfolder URL” (see web admin)
- Click on finish
- Enter the user name password for the webfolder (see web admin)
You should now see a new drive under my computer which shows the web folder files.

Webfolders on Microsoft XP
- Double click “My Network Places”
- Click on “Add A Network Place”
- Click “Next”
- Select “Choose Another Network Location”
- Enter the “Webfolder URL” (see web admin)
- Click “Next”
- Enter the user name password for the webfolder (see web admin)
You should now see a new entry in my network places.

Webfolders on Mac
- Open Finder
- Click “Go”
- Select “Connect to server…”
- Under “Server Address” enter “Webfolder URL” (see web admin)
- Enter the user name password for the webfolder (see web admin)
- The webfolders will feature under “Shared” in the findered” in the finder