Last but not least, the Whats Hot
section provides information about
happenings in and around
WordPress.com, including
WordPress.com news, top blogs, top
posts, fastest-growing blogs, and
the latest posts made to blogs on
WordPress.com. This section helps
you stay in touch with the WordPress.
com community as a whole.
QuickPress with wordpress
The QuickPress module is a handy
form that allows you to write, save,
and publish a blog post right from
your WordPress Dashboard. The
options are very similar to the ones
I cover in the section on writing
posts in Chapter 4.
Recent Drafts
If youre using a brand new
WordPress.com blog, the Recent
Drafts module displays the message:
There are no drafts at the moment.
That is because you have not written
any drafts. As time goes on,
however, and you have written a few
posts in your blog, you may save
some of those posts as drafts to be
edited and published at a later
date. It is those drafts that will
be shown in the Recent Drafts
module.
WordPress displays up to five drafts
in this module and displays the
title of the post, the date it was
last saved, and a short excerpt.
Click the View All button to go to
the Manage Posts page where you can
view, edit, and manage your blog
posts. Check out Chapter 4 for more
information on that.
Stats
The last module of the Dashboard
page is Stats (see Figure 3-5). It
includes a visual graph of your blog
stats for the past several days.
These stats represent how many
visitors your blog received each
day. The right side of the Stats
module shows some specific
information:
✓
Top Posts: This display lists
the most popular posts in your blog,
determined by the number of visits
each post received. It also shows
you exactly how many times each post
has been viewed. Figure 3-5 shows
that my post titled About Lisa
Sabin-Wilson has been viewed 70
times. You can click the title of a
post, and WordPress loads that post
in your browser window.
✓
Top Searches: This area tells
you the top keywords and search
phrases people used to find your
blog in search engines. Figure 3-5
shows that people used these search
phrases to find my blog:
WordPress MU For Dummies and
WordPress For Dummies. Its nice
to know how people are finding your
site in the search engines!
✓
Most Active: This area tells
you which posts in your blog are the
most active, as determined by the
number of comments left on each
post. You can click the title of a
post, and WordPress loads that post
in your browser window.
If you find that you dont use a few
modules on your Dashboard page, you
can completely get rid of them
altogether by following these few
steps:
1.
Click the Screen Options button
shown at the top of the Dashboard.
This button is located at the top of
the Dashboard page, on the right
side. Clicking this button drops
down the Screen Options menu,
displaying the title of each module
with check boxes to the left of each
title.
2.
Deselect the module you want to hide
on your Dashboard.
The check mark is removed from the
box and the module you deselected
disappears from your Dashboard. If
you have hidden one module and find
later that you really miss having it
on your Dashboard, you can simply
enable that module again by
selecting it from the Screen Options
menu.
