Understanding the Backend and the Frontend

When using UMW Blogs, there are two major interfaces you will be working with: the view that is visible to the audience, or the frontend, and the view that is visible only to you, or the backend.

The Frontend
The frontend is the view that is visible to the audience. This is what you see normally when visiting any other blog that you don't own. For example:

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This is your frontend. You can add menus, widgets, media and any number of other things to it to make your blog more interesting. You do this from...

The Backend
The backend, what we call the dashboard in UMW Blogs, is your mission control, your command center. Everything you do with your blog, from adding posts to adding users, you do it in here. This is what it looks like:

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We'll cover more of what you can actually do in the backend in the next section and beyond.