Your WordPress profile

Here you can update any of your personal information, including your password, which is found at the bottom of this page. Click on the Update Profile button when you're done.

Now it's time to add some content or edit some existing content. If you are unsure whether to use Pages or Posts, read Pages vs Posts in the Content section.

Personal Options

The Visual Editor is what you will use when writing or editing posts and pages in the website. Disabling the visual editor means you will only be able to write posts and pages using html and will have no visual representation of the content you're working with.

The Admin Color Scheme allows you to change the colour scheme of the admin system to your preference.

Keyboard Shortcuts allow you to navigate and perform functions in the comments screen. This is useful if you receive many comments from visitors to your site. If you do not have comments enabled, please ignore the following paragraph.

Briefly, if the keyboard shortcuts box is ticked, you can move up and down through your list of comments by using the keys "k" and "j" respectively. Once a comment is selected (as shown by a light blue background), you can use the following commands on the keyboard:

·         a – approves the comment

·         s – marks the comment as spam

·         d – deletes the comment

·         u – unapproves the comment

·         r – replies to the comment, and

·         q – allows for a quick edit of the comment

More information is available in the official documentation for WordPress:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Keyboard_Shortcuts

Your Name

Your username is set when you are established as a user in the system by the administrator and cannot be changed. You can change your first name, last name and nickname as well as how your name will be displayed on the website. Depending on how your website has been designed, your name may be displayed as an author of posts or pages that you have contributed. The option labeled "Display name publicly as" is where you can determine how you want your name displayed to the public.

Contact Info

Your email address is required and is entered when the administrator establishes you as a user in the system. If your email address is incorrect or changes, update it here. You can also enter more optional personal information like your website address, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) name, Yahoo Instant Messenger name and Yabber/Google Talk name, as well as a brief biography. Some of this information may be shown publicly on your website, depending on how it has been set up.

NB: If you are unsure about any of this, consult with your web developer or IT department.

If you have been assigned a password that you did not set, you can change your password here to one that you will remember. Measure the strength of your password with the strength indicator. Maintaining a strong password ensures you are the only person logging in and making changes under your username.

When you have made all of your changes, click on the “Update Profile” button, and all of your personal profile details will be updated in the system.