{"id":8287,"date":"2020-02-27T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/?page_id=8287"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T20:22:50","slug":"wordpress-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/resources\/web-services-standards\/wordpress-help-and-how-to\/wordpress-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"The WordPress Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dashboard, or &#8220;backend,&#8221; is where you can make changes to your website content and features. The dashboard navigation menu (the black area on the left) allows you access to the site features you have permissions to edit, according to your user role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/dashboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/dashboard-1024x509.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the WordPress dashboard\" width=\"1024\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2020\/02\/dashboard-1024x509.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2020\/02\/dashboard-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2020\/02\/dashboard-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2020\/02\/dashboard.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Screen Options<\/h2>\n<p>Screen Options allow you to choose which modules are displayed on your WordPress administration screens. They are different for each area of the backend.<\/p>\n<p>Access Screen Options by clicking the pull-down tab underneath your username.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/screen-options-open.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7178 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/screen-options-open.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Screen Options pulldown tab\" width=\"881\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2015\/03\/screen-options-open.png 881w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2015\/03\/screen-options-open-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/253\/2015\/03\/screen-options-open-768x249.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dashboard, or &#8220;backend,&#8221; is where you can make changes to your website content and features. The dashboard navigation menu (the black area on the left) allows you access to the site features you have permissions to edit, according to your user role. Screen Options Screen Options allow you to choose which modules are displayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":9647,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12029,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8287\/revisions\/12029"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/marcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}