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Terminology
Dashboard Screen
From the Dashboard Screen, you can quickly access your site’s content and get glimpses into other areas of the WordPress community.
The Dashboard screen presents information in blocks called widgets.
Page
A page is an area on your site where you can display content. Some of the most common pages on a website include Home, About, and Contact pages.
Click Pages in the left sidebar. This will show the Pages screen with a list of all the pages you have in your site.
Block
Blocks are the editor blocks that are used to create content layouts.
On any page, you can insert them by clicking the “+” button on the top left side of the page.
You can click on any of the blocks to insert it or drag it onto the page, or into a section of the page.
Block Patterns
Block patterns are a predefined collection of one or more blocks that you can easily insert into your WordPress posts, pages, full site editing templates, and more.
Block patterns are essentially pre-made templates in a way – you insert the "template" into the editor and then customize it as much as needed.
Once you insert a block pattern, you can fully customize it with your own content to make it unique. Any changes that you make to the block pattern after inserting it only apply to that piece of content.
To use a block pattern, you'll insert it into the editor using the built-in pattern explorer.
To navigate between categories, select one from the left side of the modal that pops up. Select a pattern to insert it on the page.
Then, you'll be able to fully customize all of the content and design settings just as if you'd created the design from scratch.
Page/Post Settings Sidebar
The Post/Page Sidebar (also called Document Settings) is part of the WordPress Editor on pages and posts. Located on the right side of the Editor screen, this panel is used to customize key aspects of the content being published.
In the upper-right corner of the WordPress Editor, select the gear icon. This toggles the sidebar. Within the sidebar, the left tab features the settings for the entire Page or Post you’re working on. The right tab is focused on the individual Block selected.
Themes and plugins may alter which settings appear in your sidebar.
When published, this determines if the post or page is:
Immediately is chosen by default.
Click on immediately to backdate the post or change it to a date in the future. That will schedule the post to publish at a different time.
To change the date or time, use the calendar.
↵ Enter key: Select the date in focus.
←/→ Arrow keys Move backward (left) or forward (right) by one day.
↑/↓ Arrow Keys Move backward (up) or forward (down) by one week.
PgUp/PgDn Move backward (PgUp) or forward (PgDn) by one month.
Home/End Go to the first (home) or last (end) day of a week.
The pending review checkmark indicates the post is ready for someone to look at it. This is marked in the list of posts as Pending and will also show up in a filter for Pending posts.
Once the post or page is saved for the first time as a draft, pending, scheduled or published, a new button will appear called Move to trash.
Once an item is placed into the trash, it remains there for 30 days (by default), then is permanently deleted.
This is applicable for posts & pages.
are the permanent URLs to your post or page. These are used to link to the post in another blog, email or on a social network.
The link here is the URL of the story when it’s published. You have to save the post or page before editing part of the URL.
Once the post or page is saved as a draft, edit the end of the URL (called the URL Slug) here.
Depending on your Permalink settings, this will edit the end of your URL. For example: https://example.com/[slug]
The URL slug is automatically filled in as a URL-friendly version of your post/page title.
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