WordPress.com offers two different interfaces: the default view and the WP-Admin dashboard. This guide will show you which interface style your site is using.
In this guide
The Default View for WordPress.com is a modernized, more friendly version of the classic WordPress experience:
WP-Admin is the classic WordPress dashboard experience. You will often see this dashboard when looking at WordPress tutorials online — usually with a black left sidebar.
To access the WP-Admin experience from the Default View:
- Creator and Entrepreneur plan sites can set the admin interface to the “Classic” style.
- Add /wp-admin to the end of your website URL, such as
yourgroovysite.wordpress.com/wp-adminoryourgroovydomain.com/wp-admin. - Click on “WP Admin Dashboard” in the “Quick Links” section of “My Home”:
