The admin panel (Meridian Studio)
Sign in at yourdomain.com/admin.
What is where
Dashboard — recent enquiries and a count of everything. If SMTP is not set
up, or install.php is still on the server, you are told here.
Pages — every page, built from blocks. See
Portfolio — your collections. See
Journal — long-form posts. Written in HTML: paragraphs in <p>, headings in
<h2>.
Testimonials — kind words, shown wherever you place a testimonials block.
Photographs — the media library. Every upload is automatically resized to
four widths, converted to WebP, and given a tiny placeholder that shows while
the real image loads. You do not have to think about any of that.
Enquiries — every enquiry, stored before any email is attempted.
SEO & redirects — a list of anything missing a search description, plus the
redirect manager for when you move a page.
Settings — appearance, studio details, brand colours, email, analytics.
Your account — the email and password you sign in with.
Two habits worth forming
Write a description for every photograph. The Photographs screen shows
which are missing one. It is read aloud by screen readers and used by search
engines — the same one field serves both.
Use draft status. Anything can be set to draft while you work on it. Draft
pages are invisible to visitors but still viewable by you when signed in.
Backing up
Your entire site is storage/meridian.sqlite and storage/uploads/. Copy both
and you have everything. Nothing else in the installation matters.