Real Estate Mobility – Mobile Offices for Real Estate

The WordPress Dashboard is your control center, where you gain access to virtually every function that is available to you in design, linking, widgets, page and post posting and more.  In WordPress 2.7, this page took on a radical new look, and it’s a lot better in my opinion.

All navigation is via a left side nav bar, and I’ll be taking you through every item on it as WordPress Help posts in this blog.  This post, however, is just the very first box at top left, the DashBoard.  Also, you’ll see different things at times if you’re working with a free WordPress blog, as I only do full self-hosted blog instruction here.  Much of it is the same, but there is a great deal more functionality if you host your blog.  Since it’s usually less than $100/year to do so, I don’t recommend the free blog route for anyone who wants flexibility in design and functionality.

The Dashboard screen gives you a snapshot view of the current status of your blog, numbers of posts, comments, etc.  It also can show you statistics for visitors and pageviews.  There are boxes available for display of current WordPress news, plugin releases, new themes, and more.  Here is a a flash file of the Dashboard for my real estate site.  You can enlarge or print it with the >> at the top right of the box.

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This video will show you how to rearrange your dashboard, plus some examples of configuring the modules available here.