3. Getting Around WordPress

This chapter will make you familiar with all the menus and options in WordPress. The settings for the options will be covered in Chapter 4.

Now that you have WordPress installed and running on your server, it’s time to take a short tour around the Administration area so that you can become familiar with where all the settings and goodies are hiding. I’ll get into the actual settings in Chapter 4, “Configuring WordPress to Work Its Best,” but in this chapter, we’re going to look at not only where things are, but also how to customize the Admin area to your liking. Although I’ll try to keep the descriptions as version-independent as I can, this book is written using WordPress 3.0 as the example. If there are significant ...

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