{"id":5,"date":"2018-10-04T15:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/?p=5"},"modified":"2025-03-19T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:33:46","slug":"editing-your-site-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Control Panel. O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>WordPress Control Panel <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When you first login to your new website, you are greeted with the WordPress Control Panel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97\" src=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan1.png 1919w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan1-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan1-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan1-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan1-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the left you see some menu options for navigating the control panel. On the right side, you see some different widgets, which can help provide some basic information for your site.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Dashboard:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>At a Glance<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98\" src=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan2.png 415w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan2-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan2-150x46.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">At a Glance shows a listing of all posts and pages that your site has installed in it. It also lets you know what version of WordPress is currently running, and which theme your site is running.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Google Analytics Dashboard<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan3.png 420w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan3-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan3-112x150.png 112w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan3-300x404.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">The Google Analytics Dashboard shows you some quick overview information about who has been visiting your site. The Sessions relates to the total pageviews, while the Users is the unique individuals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Activity<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan4.png 413w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan4-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan4-150x60.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Your activity shows you the latest things that have been published on your site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Quick Draft<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan5.png 427w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan5-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/help.virtualcu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ControlPan5-150x91.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Quick Draft allows you to create a new post, quickly from the control panel, and save it as a Draft to be referred to later.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>WordPress Events and News &#8211; A news feed from WordPress allowing you to stay in the know, for new wordpress news.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Menu<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The menu allows you to access different portions of your of your website. We\u2019ll quickly go over what exists inside of each section that you may need to access to change the content on your website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dashboard<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The home button for the control panel. This will take you back to the screen when you originally login<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Posts<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This will take you to your posts. Posts are individual, blog listings. Your site may refer to these as News, but any grouped content pages that are ordered by date of posting is considered a \u201cblog\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>All Posts: <\/strong>Shows a listing of all posts that are on your site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Add New:<\/strong> Quick menu item for adding a new post to your site<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Categories: <\/strong>Allows you to manage the categories for your posts, which you can use to logically group your posts together.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tags:<\/strong> For advanced users, allows you to create custom Tags that you can apply to your posts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Events<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is where you would go to edit and update your events.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>All events:<\/strong> Shows all event listings currently on the site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Add new:<\/strong> Quick menu item for adding a new event to the site<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Categories:<\/strong> Allows you to manage the categories to logically group events together.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tags:<\/strong> For advanced users, allows you to create custom Tags that you can apply to your posts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Venues:<\/strong> Allows you to manage venue locations for the events. These venues are located independently of events, so if any information on the venue changes, you can update it across all events at once.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Calendar View: <\/strong>Shows you your events, in the backend of WordPress in a Monthly, Weekly, or Day view.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Extensions: <\/strong>For advanced users, adding in extra extensions and functionality to your calendars. Any editing of these things are not supported by FedComp.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Media<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where you go to upload\/manage Images and PDFs that you would like to use on your website.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Library: <\/strong>shows a listing of the current listing of items you have uploaded to your site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Add New:<\/strong> Allows you to upload new items to your Media Library<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Media Folder Galleries:<\/strong> Advanced portion of the media section. Used to push out new Stock Images as FedComp introduces it. Please refrain from editing in this.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pages<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pages is your sites main content. Usually, these will be the pages that are linked to from your menu structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>All pages: <\/strong>\u00a0shows a listing of all pages on the site<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Add new:<\/strong> A quick menu item for adding a new page<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Comments<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">By default, comments are disabled on your site to eliminate spam. If they were active, this is where you would go to manage those comments, approve them or remove them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is where you go to create\/edit the fields that are in your forms, or create new forms.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Contact Forms: <\/strong>A listing for all contact forms on the site<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Add new:<\/strong> A method for adding a new form to the site<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Integration:<\/strong> A method for adding in additional functionality to the site. This is for advanced users and is not supported by FedComp.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Appearance<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Appearance is where you for to maintain specific portions of your of your site, including the content on the homepage, the footer content, and the menu structure<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Menus:<\/strong> Allows you to control the different menu structures on the site. Excludes the Icon Navigation, if you have this enabled.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Theme Content:<\/strong> Allows you to control the custom content on the homepage such as the slideshow, Mobile Banking link, Content, and the content in the footer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Profile<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where you can go to edit your account information that you use to login to WordPress.If you need to change your password, email or contact information, or if you want a slightly different color scheme for the wordpress backend, you would go here to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Contact Forms<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">This shows you the submissions for your contact forms. All contact form submissions are saved in the database, so you are able to go here to see, and delete, any submissions that have come through on your Contact Form<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Google Analytics<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where you would go to edit content related to the Google Analytics Users. For advanced users only.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress Control Panel When you first login to your new website, you are greeted with the WordPress Control Panel. On the left you see some menu options for navigating the control panel. On the right side, you see some different widgets, which can help provide some basic information for your site. 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