Navigating around the admin panel

Once we log in to the admin panel, we can see a navigation menu on the left. The navigation menu is divided into several sections, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.1: Strapi admin panel navigation menu

Let's look at the different sections of the navigation menu in more detail.

Content Manager

Content Manager is where we can manage the API content. COLLECTION TYPES are defined here. Out of the box, we have one type, Users, that is created by the Roles & Permissions plugin (covered in Chapter 7, Authentication and Authorization in Strapi). As we define more content-types in our project, they will appear here. Similar to collection types, SINGLE TYPES appear once we create our first single type in the Strapi Content-Types Builder plugin.

PLUGINS

By default, we have two plugins installed in Strapi: the Content-Type Builder plugin, which we used already in the previous two chapters to define...