Get answers to create your website, blog, or app with WordPress
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Your first steps with WordPress: installing it, logging in and out, resetting a forgotten password, and finding your way around the Dashboard, admin toolbar, and screen options.
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Writing and publishing posts and pages with the block editor, organizing them with categories, tags, and featured images, saving drafts, scheduling, restoring revisions, plus uploading and editing the images and files in your Media Library.
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Choosing and switching themes, changing your site identity, colors, header image and background with the Customizer, editing templates and styles in the Site Editor, managing fonts, and building navigation menus and widgets.
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Moderating the comments visitors leave: approving, replying, editing, marking spam or trash, bulk actions, and the Discussion settings that control who can comment, how comments are threaded and paged, moderation rules, and avatars.
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Adding people to your site, choosing what each person is allowed to do with roles, removing users, and looking after your own profile: display name, contact info, bio, admin color scheme, personal options, password, and application passwords.
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Finding and installing plugins, activating, deactivating, deleting and reinstalling them, updating WordPress itself along with your plugins and themes, and turning on automatic updates.
The Settings and Tools menus: site title, tagline and addresses, language, timezone and date formats, what your homepage shows, permalinks, default category and post format, your privacy policy page, exporting and importing content, personal data requests, and Site Health.
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Fixing the things that go wrong: getting back in when you are locked out, recovering a site after a failed update, emails that never arrive, images that will not upload, comments that do not appear, and tracking down the plugin or theme behind a broken page.
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Commenting is the quickest way to join the conversation on a WordPress site. Scroll to the bottom of any post, fill in the form you find there, and your reply is on its way — though on some sites it appears only after a moderator has taken a look.
You don't have to add every member by hand. Turn on open registration once, and anyone who visits your site can create their own account — landing straight in the role you pick for them.
Typos happen, and sometimes a comment lands on your site that you would rather clean up. You can fix it right in your dashboard — the comment keeps its place in the conversation, so you never have to delete it and start over.
Sometimes a conversation has run its course on one post while the rest of your site is still happy to hear from readers. You can close comments on that single post, and leave every other post exactly as it is.
Your site's name, its short description, and the addresses people use to reach it all live on one screen in your dashboard. Here's how to update them.
Your login screen is the front door to your site — it's where you go to write posts, add pages, and change how everything looks. All you need is your username or your email address, plus your password.
