Now that Wordpress is installed on your machine, let’s look at various features that Wordpress offers in a blog. While your local website is at http://localhost/localblog , you will be administering and managing the site through your administrator account which was setup during installation. Visit http://localhost/ localblog/wp-admin/ and enter your username as ‘admin’ and the password which was displayed to you during installation. After logging in successfully, you will be displayed the Wordpress Dashboard Screen.
The Wordpress Dashboard is status summary screen of all the activities and statistics related your blog. It shows at a glance the number of posts or articles published, the pages published, the number of categories & tags in the blog. It also shows comment related statistics i.e., how many total comments, of that how many were approved, how many are still pending for moderation and how many comments are marked as spam.