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Adding Categories
You can add new categories to your website by clicking the “Add New Category” in the Categories section of the post editing page or you can click on Categories under Posts on the left hand side of the screen. If you have a regular blog site, you can create new categories and delete old ones whenever you like. However if your website has a specially designed theme, then the new category may not appear on your website and you may have to ask your web designer to handle the new changes.
Media
The Media button works similar to the way you insert media into your posts. The big difference here is there is no button to “Insert into Post”. Therefore you would only use this method if you’re looking to upload media files for later use.
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Media_Library_SubPanel
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Media_Add_New_SubPanel
Links
The Links page is a place for you to keep a list of web links of your choice. You can edit, delete, or categorize your links. They will be displayed within the Links widget (see the section on Widgets) unless your website has been modified to display them somewhere else or perhaps not at all.
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Links_Edit_SubPanel
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Links_Add_New_SubPanel
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Links_Link_Categories_SubPanel
Pages
Editing pages is almost exactly like editing posts. The only major difference is that pages cannot be categorized. They can however contain sub-pages. If you have more than one page, you’ll see a drop-down menu under Parent on the right hand side of your browser. Use this drop-down to select which page you wish to assign as the parent of the page you’re working on.
If your website requires a different design or layout for each page, you’ll be able to choose from the available templates with the Template drop down button.
You can also control the Order in which your pages are listed in the website’s navigation. Normally WordPress will order them alphabetically. But you can override WordPress by changing the order number of each page. The larger the number – the higher up the list the page will appear. If you only need one page to appear at the top and don’t care if the rest are alphabetical, then just change that page’s order to “1″ and leave the rest at “0″.
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages_Edit_SubPanel
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages_Add_New_SubPanel
Comments
This section is where you may review, allow, disallow, edit, or delete your comments. You can also mark them as spam.
If your website is designed to accept visitor comments, then chances are you want a lot of them. However there are people out there that leave inappropriate comments. Those are the ones you may want to delete or at least edit. Comments that don’t make any sense or are clearly just marketing pitches meant to steal your traffic, should be marked as spam.
Any repeat offenders can even be blacklisted in the Settings section.
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Comments_Comments_SubPanel
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