WordPress - Dashboard The WordPress Dashboard is a first screen which will be seen when you log into the administration area of your blog which will display the overview of the website. It is a collection of gadgets that provide information and provide an overview of what's happening with your blog. You can customize your needs by using some quick links such as writing quick draft, replying to latest comment, etc. Dashboard can be categorized as shown in the following snapshot. Each of these categories are discussed in the following sections − Dashboard Menu The WordPress Dashboard provides navigation menu that contains some menu options such as posts, media library, pages, comments, appearance options, plugins, users, tools and settings on the left side. Screen Options The dashboard contains different types of widgets which can be shown or hidden on some screens. It contains check boxes to show or hide screen options and also allows us to customize sections on the admin screen.
WordPress - Installation System Requirements for WordPress Database − MySQL 5.0 + Web Server − WAMP (Windows) LAMP (Linux) XAMP (Multi-platform) MAMP (Macintosh) Operating System − Cross-platform Browser Support − IE (Internet Explorer 8+), Firefox, Google chrome, Safari, Opera PHP Compatibility − PHP 5.2+ Download WordPress When you open the link https://wordpress.org/download/ , you will get to see a screen as the following snapshot − Create Store Database WordPress requires MySQL database. So create a new empty database with user/password (for example, user as "root" and password as "root" or else you can set as per your convenience). Then, you can continue with the installation process as discussed further. Set Up Wizard It's very easy to set up WordPress into your system. The following steps describe how to set up WordPress locally on your system. Step (1) − Extract the downloaded WordPress folder and upload it into your web server or localhost. Step