{"id":2483,"date":"2021-08-10T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T09:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2021-10-13T06:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T06:17:23","slug":"what-is-the-wordpress-admin-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/glossary\/what-is-the-wordpress-admin-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the WordPress Admin Screen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>WordPress admin screen<\/strong> provides web creators with access to the control features for the entire website. The <strong>WordPress admin screen<\/strong> is the go-to- place for content creation and management, adding functionalities in the form of plugins, changing styles in the form of themes, and many other actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The term <strong>WordPress Admin screen<\/strong> (aka<strong> <\/strong>WP Admin or WP admin panel)&nbsp;describes various sections of the admin area. These sections are the toolbar (and header), main navigation, work area, and footer. From the screen, web creators control WordPress installation control features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Where is the WordPress Admin Screen?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By default, you can find the WordPress admin dashboard by adding&nbsp;\u201c<strong>\/wp-admin<\/strong>\u201d<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>to your WordPress installation <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/blog\/url\/\"   title=\"URL\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">URL<\/a>: https:\/\/yourdomain.com\/wp-admin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you aren\u2019t logged in to the dashboard yet, adding the \u201c<strong>\/wp-admin<\/strong>\u201d&nbsp;doesn\u2019t<strong> <\/strong>automatically redirect you to your admin login page. Instead, you can access the admin login URL by visiting: https:\/\/yourdomain.com\/wp-login.php. To harden your site\u2019s security, it is best practice to change the default login URL, which is generic and easy to hack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Use the WordPress Admin Screen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you\u2019re in the WordPress admin screen area, you can access the control features of your WordPress installation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each Administration Screen is presented in sections: the toolbar (and header), the main navigation, the work area, and the footer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the various options in the navigation sidebar allow you to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Create a new <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/blog\/start-blog-make-money\/\"   title=\"blog\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">blog<\/a> post (Posts menu)<\/li><li>Managing how your website\u2019s appearance by choosing <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/library\/\"   title=\"themes\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">themes<\/a> (Appearance menu)<\/li><li>Control Plugins, Settings, Users, Comments, etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also click on \u201cScreen Options\u201d in the top right-hand corner to tailor the look and function of the Admin panels to suit you (e.g., changing color schemes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/article\/administration-screens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a> provides a detailed description of the many features and options in every section.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenSourceCMS.com hosts a WordPress <a href=\"https:\/\/s1.demo.opensourcecms.com\/wordpress\/wp-login.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admin demo<\/a> that gives you full access to practice your hand at using the WordPress admin screen. Log in with these credentials:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Username: opensourcecms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Password: opensourcecms&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WordPress admin screen provides web creators with access to the control features for the entire website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glossary","category-wordpress","tag-build"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1292159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}