Using WordPress Admin Dashboard

A WordPress site has two sides to it.

Frontend and Backend.

What is Frontend?

The Frontend is for website visitors.

Anyone on the internet can access the frontend portion of a WordPress site by just typing the domain name.

For example, Here is the Frontend of my other website, usablewp.com.

It is more like the outer layer of a car that everyone sees.

What is Backend?

The Backend is for site owners.

The Backend of a WordPress site can only be accessed by site owners and administrators of the website because it contains the content management functionality of your WordPress site.

For example:

1. You create pages like About Us, Contact Us and add content for them.
2. You can create blog posts.
3. You can manage pages and blog posts by editing them and deleting them.
4. You can perform website maintenance tasks like keeping everything up-to-date and managing the website’s security.

As a website owner, only you or some administrators you authorize should perform the above tasks.

Not some random person on the internet, right?

So, this is why a login screen protects the Backend.

In terms of WordPress, the Backend is also called the Admin Dashboard.

It is more like the car’s engine, which the owner or an authorized mechanic can manage.

The general habit is switching between the WordPress site’s Frontend and Backend.

As a website builder and owner, we usually perform the website creation tasks on the Backend, and then we will preview how those changes look on the Frontend.

This way, we will get a good idea about how the website changes will look to the visitors of our website.

And don’t worry if you didn’t understand what I just said.

You’ll get the hang of it soon.

Anyway, now that we have clarity about Frontend and Backend, we will learn how to access the Backend of your newly installed WordPress site in the next lesson.