So you have made the leap to use WordPress as the place to build your website. Though you’ve made a great decision, you may feel a bit confused about what to do next and how you can make changes to your website.
Don’t worry, this a common problem for people new to WordPress.
The first thing you want to do is log into your admin dashboard. The dashboard is the control center of your website. Here is where you will make changes to your site ranging from the font you use to the plugins you add to the URLs you build into your site.
You may find yourself using this dashboard daily, so it is essential to learn how to access it and use it. Without access to the admin dashboard, you will find it extremely difficult to fully control your website.
To access your WordPress login page, simply add /wp-admin or /wp-login to the end of your site’s URL. For example, www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin will get you to the page where you can log in to the dashboard.
However, because of the massive amounts of users on WordPress (409 million people per month, in fact), there is room for problems that often come in the form of people hacking your site. All the bots and hackers in the world can scan for the standard URL with /wp-admin at the end of it, making it much more vulnerable to attacks.
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