Backend Tour

A 5-minute walkthrough of the newmeta admin backend. You will learn where everything lives and how to navigate quickly.

What you'll need

• An admin account with access to /admin/.
• A modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge).

Step 1 — Sign in and land on the dashboard

After login, you land on the Dashboard. It gives you a quick status overview and the sidebar navigation.

The dashboard is the entry point to every module.

Three regions shape every screen:

• Top bar — your user menu, language switcher, light/dark toggle, logout.
• Sidebar — all modules, grouped by purpose (Home, Pages, Components, Settings, …).
• Main area — the current module's content.

Step 2 — Use the sidebar to switch modules

The sidebar is grouped into sections that mirror the nature of your work:

• Home — Dashboard, Menu Editor.
• Pages — everything related to building public content (A/B Testing, E-Learning, Email Marketing, Page management, Customers, Shopware 6).
• Virtual Events — exhibitions and event-related content.
• Elements — logs, plug-ins.
• Components — reusable building blocks: attributes, blog categories, products, forms, translations.
• Settings — system configuration: redirects, AI, API keys, cache, design tokens, languages, payment providers, user administration.

Finding a module fast

Use your browser's find-in-page (Ctrl/Cmd + F) if the sidebar gets long — all items are plain text links.

Step 3 — Open Page Management

Click Page Management in the sidebar. This is where every public page of the site lives.

Each row is a page with Build Page, Edit, Duplicate Page, and Delete actions.

The list shows every page you can edit. From here you can:

• Add Page (top right) — create a new page.
• Build Page — open the Pagebuilder for layout and widgets.
• Edit — change title, SEO meta, URL.
• Duplicate Page — copy an existing page as a starting point.
• Delete — remove the page (ask twice before you do this on live content).

Step 4 — Switch language and theme

The top bar has three personal settings:

• Language — the language of the admin UI (not the content language, which is set per page).
• Light Mode / Dark Mode — UI theme. The switch also changes every screenshot in this guide.
• Change password — opens your profile.

Step 5 — Get help

Every admin screen has a ?-icon in the top bar. Click it to open the User Guide in a new tab. If your session language is German, it opens the German mirror.

What you've learned

• The three regions of every admin screen: top bar, sidebar, main area.
• How the sidebar groups modules by purpose.
• Where to find the list of pages and what you can do with each.
• How to switch language and theme.
• Where the in-app help link lives.

See also

• Key Concepts — the mental model behind pages and Widgets.
• Pages & Pagebuilder — build your first page.
• User Guide overview
• Developer Docs — if you also extend the CMS with code.