2. The dashboard

Who: everyone. The numbers you see depend on your role.

The dashboard is the first screen after you sign in. It gives you a quick overview and two shortcuts for starting to write.

1. The menu: go to any part of the admin. See Getting started.
2. The top bar: View site, your profile and Sign out.
3. The counters. Each one is also a link to the matching list:
   • Published posts, Drafts and Scheduled open the post list with that filter already chosen.
   • Pages, Media files and Users open those screens. Authors do not see the Pages and Users counters.
4. Quick draft: type a title and a few thoughts, press Save draft, and the idea is stored as a draft post. Open it later from Your recent drafts to finish it. This is handy when you only want to jot something down.
5. Recently published: the latest posts. Click a title to open it in the editor.
6. New post: opens an empty editor. See Posts.

The panels of the dashboard are cards that you can move to a place you like; see Moving the cards.

A quick draft is saved as simple text. Open it in the editor to add headings, pictures and other formatting.