Using the Omeka Admin

The Omeka administrative panel, or Dashboard, is where you go to manage all of the information in your Omeka installation. It is located at located at '/admin' relative to the root of your installation (example.com/admin, if your installation is at example.com).

This is a Dashboard.

From the Dashboard you can quickly find tabs at the top of the Dashboard that act as navigation and take you to the different functions of an Omeka site, including:

  • Items: Managing_Items
  • Collections: Managing_Collections
  • Item Types, for adding and editing types and accompanying fields: Managing_Item_Types
  • Tags, for editing, deleting, organizing within the admin side: Managing_Tags
  • Plugins with their own configuration panels have a tab for managing that functionality, such as Exhibit Builder and Simple Pages.

The Settings tab in the top right corner, where you can do the following: