There are two sides to your WordPress site: 

• The public-facing site, or the ‘front end’, is what your site visitors see and interact with.  Anyone can access the front end: https://americancenturies.org. This is where the website is viewed by our visitors.
• The administrative interface, or ‘back end’ or ‘admin’, is where museum staff add and edit content for the site. This is where the website is created by staff.

The menu on this page is a table of contents to the documents that explain how to work on the back end—creating and editing pages, improving searching and browsing by assigning metadata to pages, linking pages to related pages, adding images, audio, and video to pages, and linking American Centuries collection item pages to curatorial records in PastPerfect.

In addition, there are maintenance tasks in two areas:

• Within the WordPress administrative interface there are tasks for maintaining and managing WordPress. These tasks require you to be logged in to WordPress with a user account that has the ‘admin’ role.
• Beyond WordPress there are system administration tasks that let you maintain the servers that run your WordPress installation. These tasks require access to your DigitalOcean hosting account, your SpinupWP account for server management, and command line access to your individual servers.