It is clear that WordPress has become the most popular and surely used CMS in the world, thanks to its ease of use even for novice bloggers, its efficiency and all the possibilities it offers both to those who are starting out as those who already control enough of the web design and creation topic. There are many content managers, and surely after a little while you have been taking a look at that great variety of them you will have noticed that there are substantial differences. What makes WordPress unique is the large number of options it offers, the adaptation to any type of web project, the community behind it, with millions of users helping each other and exchanging information to improve the platform … Like any other content manager, you have to work hard at first to get to know it better , but the learning curve is quite light.
This also allows many users without design or programming knowledge to finally choose WordPress as the CMS for their page, personal blog or even online store. And is that the possibilities of WordPress are infinite , if we know how to focus well what we want and we concentrate on learning to handle the tools that will allow us to bring everything from our imagination to the screen. At first, the WordPress Desktop may seem somewhat threatening, precisely because of the large number of options available to us . Even so, its simplicity makes it much friendlier at first glance. In this article we are going to delve a little more into the interface, to show you that, in a few steps, we can control any option we want within this CMS , without having to be experts in anything, just knowing well what tools to use.
The fashionable CMS
Of all the Content Management Systems (CMS) that we can find on the market today, WordPress has undoubtedly become the most popular and used all over the internet. Created almost two decades ago, from the ashes of the defunct 2blogcafe, WordPress was initially focused as a platform for blogs and simple personal pages, but its success has allowed it to evolve into new facets, becoming a true platform for the creation of both personal and commercial web pages. This push has also been given by its free software aspect, which has allowed users themselves to improve the platform through their templates , plugins and others , making it much more complete and participatory.
Different sections of the interface
When we access WordPress for the first time, after installing it on our hosting, we will find the Control Panel or Administration Panel . It would be the main control room of the platform, from which we will access the functions that interest us most. The interface is very friendly and intuitive, with a column on the left as a menu in which the different sections appear, and a central panel in which we find “shortcuts” to some of the options popular ones, such as Quick Draft, At a Glance or Activity , in which the global statistics of our page will appear. This panel is completely configurable and we can leave it to our liking to have quick control of our favorite options, but the interesting thing is hidden in the left menu , where we will access all the most important functions of the platform.
This sidebar contains the main menu of options that WordPress offers us. Like the Administration Panel, it can also be customized to our liking, removing options that we are not going to use or putting others that will be more common. The Entries option is one of the main ones, since it will give us access to the creation of new pages or blog entries, depending on how we have our website structured. We also find the Media Library , where we can upload and manage all the audiovisual content of the blog, from video to music, including photos and images, of course, which will be essential to give it the visual touch we are looking for . At the bottom we already find the customization options, such as Tools and Profile , where we can adapt the interface of the CMS with which we work as the appearance of our website for the public.
Which are the most used
Of all the sections that we have seen, the most used are Entries , obviously to generate new pages or blog entries, the mainstay of the structure of our website, and also Tools , where we can find the installed plugins and all the utilities with which to customize our web page, to make it completely to our liking. The Profile option can also be very interesting, to vary not only our profile for the public but also the entire interface that we are handling, leaving it as we feel more comfortable to be able to use it more easily. All this prepared so that anyone, even without much knowledge about the Internet, can carry out whatever option they have in mind.
Why use WordPress on your website?
As you have seen , WordPress stands out for its immense number of options , different templates, plugins … Everything you need to create a web page from scratch, whatever the use you are going to give it. From personal blogs to websites for your business, including online stores with a multitude of products. All this always adapted to your taste and totally customizable through the options that we have already seen above, and without the need to be an expert in code or programming. WordPress is a huge platform with millions of users , used by thousands of companies and important brands for the creation of their websites, which offers users a complete and complex multitude of options to develop their own websites on the Internet , fully customized.