The Ultimate Guide to Setting up WordPress after an Install
538There are a few essential steps that need to be taken with any new wordpress install. Obviously not every wordpress blog will be the same but there are some basics that I feel should be done regardless of what kind of blog you’re creating.
Here we’ll go through 10 steps that are essential to preform after any wordpress install including a list of 10 plug-ins that are a must for blogs of any type.
Step 1 – Change Permalink Structure
When you go to Settings > Permalinks, you’ll notice that the default permalink is http://site.com/?p=123. This structure not only isn’t a good idea for SEO but it also doesn’t tell your visitors anything about the link they’re visiting.
I would suggest a custom structure here using only the post title (http://site.com/title-of-article) which will provide some keywords for search engines as well as giving your readers something to go on.
Some people choose to add in the category (http://site.com/category/title-of-article) however, if you want to assign multiple categories to a single post, you will have to work out a way to deal with duplicate links.
To change your permalink structure choose Custom Structure and paste /%postname% in the box. If you want to add the category as well paste in /%category%/%postname%
Step 2 – Set up Authors
Since we want to remove the admin account in the next step for security reasons, it’s time to set up the authors of our blog. To do this go to Users > Add New and fill out the form. Be sure to make yourself an administrator, you will then want to set up any other authors that will be writing for your blog assigning them to whatever role and permissions you want them to have.
Step 3 – Fix Security Issues
There are a few minor security issues that need to be dealt with on a new wordpress install. While these aren’t major risks, it’s good to have every security measure possible in place to keep your blog safe. The last thing you want after taking the time and energy to put your blog together and get it up, is for it to be brought down through an exposed security point that could have easily been avoided.
Disable Remote Publishing: Unless you use an external blog editor I would recommend disabling both Atom and SML-PRC publishing. These settings are under Settings > Writing.
Remove The Admin Account: You’ll want to delete the default admin account that is automatically created when you install wordpress. Hackers know that this account is automatically added by default and is automatically assigned ID#1 making it an easy starting point for them. To do this go to Users, mouse over the admin account and click Delete.
Disable Post Via Email: These settings are also under Settings > Writing. If you don’t plan on posting via email, don’t put any real information in this section.
Create a blank index.html file to hide directories: Put this file in every directory you don’t want people to be able to browse. That way if someone loads a directory, they will just be shown a blank white page instead of the contents of the directory.
Alternatively, you can use htaccess to prevent people browsing your directories if you’re confident editing it.
Step 4 – Set up Discussion Settings
In this section we’ll be focusing specifically on the areas shown in the image below. First navigate to Settings > Discussion
There are a number of areas under the Settings section and most of them are either very intuitive like the General Settings or will just be left on the default settings. However, the Discussions area has some important options that you will set according to your own personal preferences. Let’s take a look at each of these options and what each mean.
- Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article – This will notify any other wordpress blogs that you link to in an article with a pingback. I recommend you have this checked since pingbacks can send some pretty decent traffic to your blog.
- Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.) – This notifies you if any other wordpress blogs link to you and adds a pingback/trackback to the comments of the article that was linked to. I also recommend you have this checked for the same reason.
- Allow people to post comments on the article – This one is totally a personal preference. If you want to allow comments on your blog check it, if not leave it blank. My personal opinion on this is that comments are a large part of what makes blogs great, however, I know of some great blogs that have comments disabled because the author doesn’t have time to keep up with them.
- Comment author must fill out name and e-mail – I recommend having this checked to reduce the amount of spam you get in your comments.
- Users must be registered and logged in to comment – If you have a site where users can register you would probably want this checked to further reduce spam. However, if, like most blogs, you don’t offer registration or don’t want to require readers to register to comments, leave it unchecked.
- Automatically close comments on articles older than — days – Some bloggers choose to close comments for older posts so that they don’t have to keep constantly going back to check for new comments and reply to them. If you want to implement this strategy check this option and set it to the number of days you prefer to leave the commenting open.
- Enable threaded (nested) comments — levels deep – Threaded comments are a new feature in WordPress that I haven’t had a chance to thoroughly explore. If you want to use nested comments, first you need to make sure your theme supports them, then check this box and set the number to the maximum you want shown on your blog. Any more than the number shown will be hidden and the reader will be given the option to view them.
- Break comments into pages with — comments per page and the — page displayed by default. Comments should be displayed with the — comments at the top of each page – If you have a very active blog and get a lot of comments you will probably want to check this option. Using the default settings, if a post has more than 50 comments, they will be split up on multiple pages with the last page displayed and older comments at the top of each page.
- Email me whenever – Anyone posts a comment – If you would like to get an email every time someone posts a comment on your blog, check this option. If you have a high traffic blog, you may not want to do this to keep your email down to a minimum.
- Email me whenever – A comment is held for moderation – If you would like to get an email whenever there is a comment awaiting moderation on your blog, check this option. I recommend checking this one since most people want to get comments moderated as soon as possible.
- Before a comment appears – An administrator must always approve the comment – If you want to have to approve every comment before it goes live, check this option. Some may choose to do this so that they can check for spam or inappropriate comments before they actually show up on the blog.
- Before a comment appears – Comment author must have a previously approved comment – This is the option I have chosen on Arbenting. If the comment author has never replied on my blog before, I have to approve it before it goes live. However, if the comment author already has approved comments on the blog, their comments will post automatically.
Step 5 – Update Your Ping List
To update your ping list go to Settings > Writing and scroll down to Update Services. Make sure that, at the very least, Pingomatic (http://rpc.pingomatic.com/) is in your Update Services box. Other than that I would also recommend adding the following list along with any additional services you would like notified whenever you add new content to your blog.
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
Step 6 – Set up Feedburner
Setting up your feed at Feedburner not only gives you more options than you would have with the default, but it also allows you to keep track of your statistics. Go to Feedburner and set up an account if you don’t have one already. Then type in the address of your blog and hit next to set up a feedburner feed for your blog.
If you need help setting up your account or just want to learn more about Feedburner’s options, Setting Up Feedburner to Syndicate Your RSS Feed is a really helpful screencast on doing just that.
Now anytime you link to your feed, make sure to use your new feedburner address. We’ll finish the Feedburner process in step 10 with the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin.
Step 7 – Upload and Activate your Theme
Chances are you won’t want to keep the default wordpress theme. If you’re a professional blog you’ll probably either want to have a custom theme made or purchase a premium theme.
If your blog is a personal or a hobby blog, you may want to try out one of the many free themes available. Whichever way you choose to go, you will have to upload and activate the theme.
First connect with your host via FTP and go to the folder where you have your blog installed. Go to wp-content > themes and upload your theme. Then, to activate the theme, go to Appearance and click on the theme you want to activate.
This will cause a pop-up window showing you a preview of the theme you are about to activate. Click Activate “Theme” and you are done.
Step 8 – Set up Analytics
Google Analytics is one of the best free statistic tracking services available. To set up your account go to Google Analytics and either log in with your Google account info or in the unlikely event you don’t have one, sign up. Now you just need to add your website.
If you don’t know anything about Analytics and need help setting up your account, How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners is a great tutorial for you.
NOTE: Don’t worry about inserting the javascript into your pages yet, the Google Analytics Plug-in will take care of this for you.
Step 9 – Edit the About Page
By default there is a generic ‘about page’ already in your new wordpress install. However, you aren’t going to want to leave this the way it is. Instead you want to personalize it and actually make it about you or your blog. To do this go to Pages, hover over About and click Edit.
I would recommend putting a bit about your blog, a bit of personal information and a photo of yourself if you feel comfortable. Blog readers like to know a little something about you, so adding this bit of a personal touch to your blog is essential, in making this connection.
Step 10 – Install and Activate the Following Plugins
WordPress is a pretty impressive blogging platform on its own, but add plugins, and you have one of the most customizable blogs available. There are thousands of plugins to choose from that can do pretty much anything you can imagine. The plugins we are going to focus on here are those that I feel are essential to any wordpress installation.
To install these plugins you will need to go to the sites, download and unzip them. Then, via FTP, go to the folder where wordpress is installed and go to wp-content > plugins. Upload any plugins you want to install to this folder.
Alternatively, if you’re using WordPress version 2.7 up you can go to Plugins > Add New in your dashboard and search for the plugin there. You can then click “Install” when you find the plugin and it will copy the files to your server for you automatically.
To activate the plugins you have just uploaded go to Plugins and click Activate for each plugin you want to activate. Any plugins with settings will now have it’s own section under Settings.
Plugin 1 – Akismet
Akismet is one of the best spam filters available for wordpress and is one of the two plugins that comes pre-installed on your blog, so all you will need to do is activate it. Once activated, it will ask you for your WordPress API Key. If you already have one for another site, you can use it here, individual keys can be used on multiple sites.
If you do not have a key, sign up for one at WordPress API Keys. Once you have this go to Plugins > Akismet Configuration, enter your key and click Update Options.
Plugin 2 – Permalink Redirect
Search engines tend to hold it against your site if multiple URLs show up for identical pages. Permalink Redirect makes sure that there is only one URL for each blog entry.
While it is a good idea to install this plugin regardless, make sure to use it if you set your permalinks to blog.com/category/title_of_the_post.
Plugin 3 – All in one SEO Pack
All in one SEO Pack gives you options to optimize your wordpress blog for search engines that the basic wordpress install is missing. For the basic settings go to Settings > All In One SEO and fill in the Title, Description and Keywords for your blog. You will most likely leave the other options on this page set to their default.
The other half of this plugin comes into effect whenever you write a new blog post or page. When you are editing a post or page, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will see a section for All In One SEO Pack where you can add the Title, Description and Keywords of each individual post and page, or disable the SEO altogether for them.
Plugin 4 – WordPress Automatic Upgrade
While upgrading wordpress is not the hardest thing to do, it can be cumbersome and a waste of time that is unnecessary with the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. This plugin lets you know when a new version of wordpress is available and allows you to back up your files and upgrade with only the push of a few buttons.
Plugin 5 – Google Analytics for WordPress
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, and track image search queries.
This is also where you will put in the javascript for Google Analytics keeping you from having to edit your theme. Go to Settings > Google Analytics and paste the legacy urchin.js script into the box.
NOTE: It is very important that you use the legacy urchin.js script and not the ga.js since this plugin will not work with the ga.js script.
Plugin 6 – WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is probably not essential for a brand new blog, but since most people start a blog with the intention of it growing, this plugin may become more of an asset as this progress occurs. The plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. This allows for quicker page loading for your readers, as each additional time the page is accessed, the more compact and less memory intensive static page it has generated will load rather than the fully scripted WordPress one.
Plugin 7 – Google XML Sitemaps
Google XML Sitemaps will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML sitemap of your wordpress blog that you can submit to any search engine. While there are some settings you can change for this plugin, it pretty much just works on its own.
Plugin 8 – No Self Pings
Chances are you are going to want to reference and link to past relevant blog posts in your current ones. By default, when you do this, the post you link to will get a pingback from the new post. No Self Pings keeps wordpress from sending pingbacks from your blog to your blog.
Plugin 9 – Feedburner Feedsmith
Now we can complete the last step to getting your Feedburner feed set up. Install and activate the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin, then go to Settings > Feedburner. All you need to do here is put in the Feedburner feed address you set up in step 6 and click Save. The plugin will now detect all ways to access your feed and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed.
Plugin 10 – WP DB Backup
Always back up your data! The geek’s mantra. This holds true for your wordpress databases as well. Imagine suddenly losing a years worth of blog posts and not having a back up. The thought brings tears to my eyes. WP DB Backup allows you to easily back up your wordpress databases.
Bonus: Delete The Hello Dolly Plugin – This is really an insignificant step but one that I always feel the need to take just to keep my folders as clean as possible. Hello Dolly is a useless plugin that puts random lyrics to hello dolly on your dashboard. It comes pre-installed and since I’ve never had any reason to activate it, I always delete it.
Wrap Up
So that’s my must-do list, the routine I got through after every wordpress install. What are the essential steps you take with your new installs?
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Now this is something I could’ve done with two years ago. Superb, Angie! Comprehensive is an understatement.
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Thanks so much David. This is a process I go through time and time again and I started thinking that maybe some others would benefit from it.
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Definitely David. This is by far one for the most enhanced guides i’ve seen about WordPress. Thank you so much Angie :)
This is lovely Angie! Thanks a lot :)
Very good tutorial. Thanks for sharing
Don’t forget to use seo and light wordpress theme so page load is fast, and search engine will definitely like it.
Great tutorial helped me a lot. Setting up WordPress is very important because you can always forget something
It’s great to have the WordPress install process so well organized
Yeah, I totally agree with you David… I would have saved a BUNCH of time knowing this.
the only other plugin I’d mention is a video plugin like the “wordpress video plugin”. As most bloggers at some point will probably want to link to a Youtube video…
Oh and one more plugin suggestion… The RSS Footer Plugin. It creates a link back to your page so that if someone is scraping it you still get a linkback. :)
If i’ve found this post some time ago this could have saved me so much time! This post is bookmarked and I’m going to check my blogs if I missed something. Everytime I setup a wordpress blog I do it a bit differently, now I finally have a complete guide to follow and check if I missed something.
Angle do you know,how effective is your post.Its so help me for my new blog
I couldn’t find this list in my bookmarks when I installed my new blog. I guess I have to clean my bookmarks list up…
But it also a great checklist to see if you have forgotten anything on your existing blogs. Thanks to your list I found out that I hadn’t updates my ping list.
re: Ten things to Do after installing WP #1 re-intrduce yourself to your wife / girlfriend and children #2Grab a 12 pack and relax…… If you have word press you are smart enough to continue this list!! Not to mention you have the time! Thank You to everyone at WP……D Robbins
This is a brilliant list—except for 1 thing: The WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin. WordPress includes automatic upgrading by default as of version 2.7 meaning no new user would need this plugin.
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Thanks for letting me know that. I actually had no idea that automatic updates were built in now. I’ve been using the plugin for so long I didn’t notice the change. :)
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Great guide to setting up WordPress. I do think that you can easily replace the WP Super Cache plugin with DB Cache Reloaded. It’s a handy little plugin that caches all the database queries and doesn’t mesmerize you with a million options.
Thanks Angie. This is a great list!
I don’t quite understand why you show screenshots of WordPress 2.7 (which has automatic upgrades built in), and then recommend installing a plugin to do the exact same thing. It’s like recommending installing a threaded comments plugin now that WordPress has threaded comments built in.
Other then that, great list. Definitely one I’ll bookmark, and tweet about.
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Hey Joel, thanks so much for the bookmark and tweet :). Like I said to Ian, I had no idea it had been implemented automatically now. And for some odd reason, I never read anything about it lol. Thanks for letting me know so that I can update my plugins.
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Great articles, after that get mor visitor and than monetize your website. I do almost 90% your guidline above.
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There are several country that the citizen always feel hunger all the time coz they don’t have anything to eat. That is really bad coz all people can eat anytime they want.
Great series of steps for new WordPress installations. Wish I found it a few months back. I’ve managed to do most of these steps, but having a list like this is a wonderful resource. Thanks.
Peace,
Bob
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This guide is excellent and comprehensive.
Specially for someone new to wordpress.
Very good tutorial.
I’ve been using this post as a guide for our clients on which plugins to use. There are so many crap plugins, having this all compiled into one place is fantastic. Like Bob, I too wish I’d found this way back when, it would have saved me a lot of frustration and headache convincing clients what to use.
Fantastic tutorial. Cheers.
Just wanted to comment on your tip #1.
Using %postname% only isn’t a very good idea, because it can cause some issues. There’s actually a note on this in the codex itself:
“If you use postname as the only element in your permalinks to create a structure such as example.com/post-title, the rewrite rules may make it impossible to access pages such as your stylesheet (which has a similar format) or the /wp-admin/ folder…”
Now, there is a notation here that wonders if the above statement is true in versions 2.x, but you should be sure to thoroughly test it before committing to it.
Also, setting up with just %category%/%postname% is actually not a very good idea – since it actually makes WordPress a little bit slower. There’s a discussion going on about it that you might want to read – it provides some insight to this. (It even tells you in the codex: starting your permalinks with %category% or %tag% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons). But basically it doubles the time it takes to serve up the correct URL when you start your permalinks with these:
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2009-January/011097.html
Very interesting discussion.
However, that being said, I do set up many sites with %category%/%postname% simply because it’s very useful. I do hope in the furture they somehow remedy this, because I’d much rather use keywords in my URLs than having to rely on date-based or ID-based permalinks.
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Wow, Shelly, thanks for all the info. I had never heard this and have always read that postname alone was the best solution. That’s also the one I’ve been using for a while and haven’t had any trouble. But I also didn’t use wordpress before v2 so I may have just gotten lucky there.
@shelley: I believe you are incorrect as well, and the section of the codex that talks about not using only %postname% is very old (pre WP 2.x). For the most part, using %postname% alone is now preferred by most bloggers. This is especially true since Matt Cutts made mention many years back of the fact that most blogs (wordpress) that use a “data based structure” in the permalink should STOP doing it because multi-level directories lesson the effects of SEO (even if slightly), and make it harder to change your blog or web site at a future date (or switch to another platform). In that same discussion, he also recommended most bloggers install off the root of their domain if possible in a /blog directory to leave future possibilities for growth open.
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That’s very true indeed!
Specially in cases where you use WP as a CMS (with a lot of pages instead of posts) it is recommended to use a permalink like /%year%/%postname%.
For further detail you should check http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8958
I re start my blog some days ago because a server problem so this post is a great source for me, i hope not having the same problems again with my blog, and thanks for this great post.
I think i’ll using them.
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If possible, use light theme so the page will load fast when seach engine crawl you site. You can also try to block bad spider so they will not hurt the server bandwith
That’s interesting, Shelly, as I find the postname alone to be the most suitable method, helping to keep URLs as short and concise as possible. No issues on my side.
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I’m agree with David.
I think search engine doesnt like very long url
I am new to wordpress, and i found this article, its a big help for me, thanks :)
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I know it *used* to be a much bigger issue – especially when you accidentally name a post the same thing as a Page (I did that once in 2.5, I believe – might have been 2.3…) and it went berserk trying to figure out which one to serve up – the post or the Page? But I’ve noticed in 2.7 that if you accidentally name something the same as another piece of content, it’ll “count” it for you. So if you say, named a post “about” then the slug would be “about-2” (provided you still have your “about” Page there).
But I’ve heard of the styling issues before as well, as recently as 2.6 (again, if memory serves), and it’s usually a “fluke” kind of thing. So my warnings are just that: test, and be sure it works for you before you commit to it :) Sometimes, Murphy’s Law comes into play, and it’s nice to be forewarned of the possibility :)
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That makes perfect sense for the reason, I’ve never been unlucky enough to have a page and post name be the same so that’s probably why i’ve never had to deal with this. You also have the option now to set the address to whatever you want when you’re writing a post which is also helpful in making sure you don’t get identical addresses.
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Yep, definitely better to know about these things beforehand. I wasn’t aware that the slug will now automatically change (as in your “about-2” example. That’s a good introduction.
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wow great i have read many articles about this topic and everytime i learn something new i dont think it will ever stop always new info , Thanks for all of
your hard work!
Thanks for all the comments everyone, I’m glad you’re all finding the article useful! :)
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I echo the sentiments of earlier commenters – automatic updates is now part of wordpress. It’s also worth mentioning that WordPress.com stats (the official wordpress stats plugin) is just as good as google analytics and provides daily, weekly, and monthly stat snapshots within your blog without having to go to another web site.
Also – All in One SEO pack is great, but Platinum SEO pack is much better and handles 301 redirects automatically, so you won’t need to use that permalink redirect plugin at all!
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Is the official stats plugin wp-stats? If so, I’ve tried it a few times but didn’t like it as much as analytics. I’m sure it’s all just personal preference though :)
I’ve never heard of Platinum SEO, I’ll make sure to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Platinum SEO is a fork from All-in-One-SEO when the original author decided not to carry on with that… All in One was picked up by SemperFi WebDesign and since then he’s been all over the updates… I used both and honestly still use All in One because of the author and his ability to add/patch/update it MUCH faster. Platinum had promise but fell short.
If you really want a hardcore SEO tool… use headspace2 – just lot more setup/customization and for the majority of people… not needed… All in One is best.
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Great article and recomendations!
I just started a new Vlog on WordPress and a lot of this will help me out.
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In Step #3: Create a blank index.html file to hide directories
There’s a better, faster way to do this. Assuming you are hosted on cPanel, log in to cPanel, Select “Index Manager”, and turn indexes to OFF at /root. This will cascade down. Much better than blank index.html files.
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Thanks for the tip Nic, I have cpanel but honestly don’t know a lot about it yet. This makes things much easier for the majority who have cpanel.
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Thanks Angie & everyone else for input!
This is a really helpful reference for me. I just put up a WP site a couple months ago and still trying to figure it all out…
Cheers,
Brenda
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Great advice. Thank you so much. I plan to set up my first blog sometime this week. I’m sure this list will come in very handy and save me a lot of time.
Hello Angie, that is some great information. Thanks so much. I am new to getting my blog up and doing things myself. Still looking for some plugin too.
Thanks
pkayfit
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Hi Angie, this is a very useful resource and I know I’m going to sound like a broken record (judging from previous comments), but I wish I had these tips some time ago myself.
I didn’t know about the no self pings plugin, and I’ve just downloaded it.
Keep up the good work.
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Thanks Tracey. I’ve been seeing a lot of articles lately that make me say “I wish that had been around way back when” lol. I think It’s great that so many people are sharing their secrets with the new generation though!
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Rock solid Angie. As much as I know about this, I always forget something. This also reminds me how much time it takes to set up a WordPress blog. Thanks for documenting this so thoroughly.
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Thanks Michael, it’s definitely good to have a checklist to go through. But I’m like you, I usually end up forgetting something along the way.
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Good information for people… I don’t really think every blog needs caching and most people won’t need the autoupdate plugin seeing as it’s built in since 2.7 and gets even more seamless in 2.8.
Good list of pinging services too – the only ones I use that you didn’t list are
http://rpc.twingly.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
Twingly is a great one too. May want to look at those to add them to your list.
I definitely agree that every blog doesn’t need caching but if you publicize and try to bring in social media traffic, you never know when a post will go viral causing you suddenly jump from getting a couple thousand hits a day to a couple tens of thousands hits overnight. This is why I think it’s always good to plan ahead just in case.
Thanks for the additional pinging services, I’ll make sure to check them out!
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Awesome tutorial. It must have taken you some time to get all this nicely packed into a post. Deserves a thumbs up!
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Wow, fantastic resource. Have added a couple of suggested plug-ins.
Just one question, does it matter if your blog pings yourself? Is there any google penalty associate with it? Does it affect anything else?
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I don’t think there are any penalties for your blog pinging itself. But I try to link to any relevant past articles when I’m writing new posts and having a big list of pingbacks from myself just seems a bit tacky lol.
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Great post, Thanks.
Just applied to my site and hope it helps.
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No problem! I believe there was something written about it on the WordPress Blog, but I even had to check with twitter before leaving that comment.
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There’s definitely a lot to keep up with and sometimes new features just fall through the cracks in my brain lol.
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Great roundup Angie,
think I would also add subscribe to comments plugin as a necessary addition on setup to keep visitors returning. Hat tip to David Airey for pointing me that way in the past.
Paul.
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Subscribe to Comments and CommentLuv would both make great additions to the list for return visitors. And since Automatic Upgrade is unnecessary now, I think they would make a great replacement :)
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Very informative and helpful tips here for someone new to wordpress or oldies alike.
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I need to get working on this lot! Thanks for all the helpful, and hopefully foolproof, tips. Top job.
Nice article. Thanks.
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Thanks, this is a very powerful tutorial for beginners :)
Just about WP DB backup which sometimes puts some other plugins in trouble, that’s better to use PhpMyAdmin to save database. But without using a cache plugin, WP DB Backup is very useful.
I bookmarked your post as a to do list for a basic WP install and discovered your great blog at the same time !!
PhpMyAdmin is a good solution for those who know what they’re doing. But if you’re setting up a blog for someone who isn’t so tech savvy, the plugin will allow them to backup their blogs without any additional help.
I’m glad you discovered Arbenting and hope you enjoy it :)
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ya phpmyadmin is great for that but a very scary place to allow most people to play in… a script that just does it for them each week and emails it to them… way better for the majority of people… I mean even I don’t back up my stuff that much and that’s what I do lol… script works great..
Very good job. Well done! Thank you very much for posting!
This is a great article, very well done. I even had to ‘fix’ a few things in my WP installations :-)
Great post.
@JT – no offense :) But I *did* mention that the codex statement was old, and perhaps it’s not in play anymore, but it was still in question (and is noted so in the codex).
As for Matt Cutts,I love his stuff, but he’s an SEO/Google expert. The thread I linked to in my original comment is a discussion among members of the actual WordPress development team (the WP-Testers list) and some of the names in there you will certainly recognize if you have been to the forums at all. I do believe I would trust the people that are actually developing the software when they recommend a certain way of setting things up.
But again, as I also said in my original comment, I do it anyway ;) I just felt it was something people should be made aware of.
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I’ve got a question about step 1:
What about adding year and month to it? like this:
/%year%/%monthnum%/%category%/%postname%
isn’t that better? I thought about it that “what would happen if maayyybe sometime you created two same articles with the same name and in one category!?” Then what would happen to the titles?!! because there would be two articles with same URLs… right?
If it would make any problem, I think it’s worth to add year and month to it.
Can you help me please? Am I right about it? thanks
Also wondering what the deal is if you create a blog post that duplicates the permalink…or does WordPress recognise it and create an extension to the name?
Example:
blog.com/duplicate-post-name
…and then the duplicate is called…
blog.com/duplicate-post-name-1
Hmm…
So you are giving away all the good secrets…Thank you! :) Now that I have my blog page setup I can take all this items into consideration. I don’t like printing stuff out, but I’ll def print this one so that I don’t forget make the changes to my wordpress page.
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Another one query that I can’t find on Google is with regards removing the admin account. If you were to do that would it also remove all the posts made by that account?
When you delete the admin account, you’ll get the option to either delete all posts associated with it or to assign a new author and keep them. So no need to worry about losing old posts when deleting the account.
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Thanks for the great list – well done! One of the other things I always do in addition to some of these steps is customize the WordPress login screen with their logo. Even if at minimum I just swap out the WordPress logo for theirs, it will give the website more of a personal feel when the client starts using it. It’s really easy to do, and clients really like it.
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That’s a great idea and one that I hadn’t fully considered the merits of. I’ve always kind of dismissed it if the site didn’t require registration. But now that you mention it, I can see how clients would really appreciate that little bit of customization, even if they’re the only ones who ever see it. Thanks!
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thank you. was a very useful article. I got to my favorites now.
Seen all of this before just not in one place so thank you! Bookmarked!
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Some awesome tips! I liked to one about the blank index.html files? Which folders do you put them in?
Also, I don’t have the auto upgrade WordPress and the reason is what if something in build 2.7.1 breaks a plugin I need to work in 2.7 (my current build).
I don’t agree with that because I have a development site to test everything in first (I recommend this to everyone).
Good article!
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The blank index pages should go in any directory you don’t want visitors to be able to browse. A good example is the plugin folder. Without a blank index file in the plugin folder, anyone who browses to that folder will be able to see it’s contents which can pose a security risk.
If you have cpanel, you can also look at Nic’s solution that he posted above.
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I’m pretty experienced with WP and do a lot of the things mentioned in this post already, but I had never heard of the “No Self Pings” plugin before — thanks for giving notice about this, I’ve been wanting something like that for ages!
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Bookmarked and I will be sharing this. Thank you for the great resource.
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Updated my ping list, I have no idea why I forgot to do this.
This is hands down the definitive WordPress install guide and the best WP article I have ever read. Thank you so much for this!
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Hi Angie. Excellent post! Thank you for all the tips. I have loads of new wp setups to attend to now… one BIG question regarding permalinks – let’s say you’ve got a site – http://www.mydog.com – the site is run off another server through a different system, but part of the site you want to use WP for. So you create a blog and pages within the blog for some basic content management. The WP install for that blog, however, is on another host. Is it possible to give it the same URL and have all those subsequent pages read that same URL? So the WP install, which is separate from the site, now has the same URL as the site – i.e. http://www.mydog.com/blog for the WP blog part or http://www.mydog.com/dogtoys for the WP page called Dog Toys, etc. The reason for doing this is to keep the WP side of the site consistent (with URLs) with the main site. Am I making sense?
If I’m understanding you correctly I think what you’re looking for you would do in cpanel or whatever you have with your host. I can’t really guide you any further than that since I’m not that experienced in that area. Sorry I couldn’t be more help.
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Hi,
Thank you for all the great information!!!
As a real newbie – I am grateful for the help!
I am trying to follow your instructions for removing the admin account – and WP is not letting delete – I have set myself up another user name… but the original won’t go anywhere.
I’m on WP 2.7.1 – is this something they no longer let you do?
Thanks.
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I just did this yesterday. What I did was, set up a new account and made sure it had admin rights. Then I logged into that new account, moused over the ‘admin’ name and hit delete. It will ask you to confirm.
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Thanks, I’ll try to figure out how to do that. I’ll post back successful or not.
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Like Igster said, make sure you’re not logged in as the admin account you’re trying to delete. It should work then.
nope! not working for me either! It says ‘this user will not be deleted’.
Never mind, all is well… was still logged in as the original admin account by accident. Logged out, then back in as the second administrator…. no problem deleting.
Great tuts. Thanks you very much
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Very useful! Just followed the guide for my blog, already had done most of this, but the no self pings plugin is great! I’ve been looking for something like that for a while now, just forgot about it to now!
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Very informative…this will certainly be helpful in starting a new website.
One question though…would these all be helpful tips for a technology website (which is what I’m planning to make mine)?
Once again, thanks for great content (as always!)
Think it will. We are running a technology / computer support related board and this information has been very helpful :)
Would just like to know how recent that list of Update Services is though.
Hi there Angie.
What a great post this is!
I’ve set-up several WordPress blog, but your guide made it a breeze.
Thanks to this page, you helped me install the new blog at http://Wiisentials.com/Blog!
This is a great resource for new and veteran blog publishers alike, so consider it bookmarked.
Thank you.
Lou
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Great post! I linked to it from my guide for installing WordPress and it made a good next step post.
According to Yoast’s site the Google Analytics plugin does work with the new ga.js http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/ I have been using it for a while without any issues.
I was also wondering what the advantage of using WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin was? As WordPress nwo has the one-click upgrade thing. Is it that it also backs it up?
Yep, the upgrade plugin will backup both the files and the database first.
Not sure why WordPress itself doesn’t do that, hopefully it will be added soon enough! :)
Great blog and a heap of information well done to the Author.
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This is a really thorough walkthrough. Many of these steps are things that took me a while to pick up on. It’s nice to have them all in one place.
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There are a few essential steps that need to be taken with any new wordpress install. Obviously not every wordpress blog will be the same but there are some basics that I feel should be done regardless of what kind of blog you’re creating….
Very, very helpful post – I have just restarted a previous blog of mine and this list came in very handy as there were a few things I had forgotten to do.
Also; the list of ping services that you have provided is great.
Thank you!
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This information is really kewl.
Thanks for the great guide. Saved me hours of research.
This really helped me a lot. More info than is in the forums, that’s for sure! I’m also bookmarking it for future installs. Many thanks.
For each of my blogs that i had setup in the past i chose category and postname within the permalink, i plan to setup a new blog soon and will be going for postname only as you have recommended above.
For me its also for the reason that the urls of some posts dont become too long and also i noticed that with urls where category and postname are used within the permalink means duplicate keywords within the url, i dont think its good for a keyword to show up twice within the url in most cases.
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hi angie,
great guide! I like your security suggestions, especially:
“Create a blank index.html file to hide directories: Put this file in every directory you don’t want people to be able to browse. That way if someone loads a directory, they will just be shown a blank white page instead of the contents of the directory.”
A simple but effective tip that is now on my list of things to do on my blog.
Thanks! Steve :)
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Just wanted to say how much I have gained by reading your guide and how it helped me get started as well as to say thanks. It saved me quite a bit of time and made my site secure. I think the plugins you suggested are a great and a good place to start.
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Thank you so much for this invaluable information about setting up a blog. I have been struggling trying to get my blog all set up and have not been able to find a clear, straightforward source on how to do that until now. I am going to apply each of these steps to my blog immediately.
Thanks again.
Ted
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Thanks for sharing usefull tricks.
I don’t realize this trick before : “Create a blank index.html file to hide directories”
Very nice trick eg. to avoid visitor checking what plugins you use on your site put blank index.html on http://www.yousite.com/wp-content/plugins
For SEO, there is platinum seo pack as an alternative for all in one seo pack if you need more option
I don’t see the point in setting up blank index.html to hide directories. It’s extra work. You can just set your indexes to “noindex”. Easily done in cPanel (what most people use for hosting), or other hosting admin panels.
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Hi Nic..
Please share more detail on how to do that
Thanks
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Thanks so much for these setup tips. I now realize several things that I was not doing that I should be doing when I set up a new WP site and I have gone back and added most of these plugins into my existing sites.
How did I miss this post?
It’s taken me ages to set up my wordpress site and now I see that I have lots more to do.
Think I’ll start with the security settings…. security scares me to death.
So much info, I’ll have to print it out and read it on the train.
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Very good article and full of information. I follow similar steps but I also make sure to optimize my sites speed by adding another two plugins: Autoptimize and cSprites.
Autoptimize basically takes your sites javascript and CSS files and adds them all together completely compressed (and gzip’d). It also compresses your html and removes all comment code from the browser’s source (it keeps it in the file though). This is great if you paid a lot for a custom design that you don’t want others to copy.
cSprites works in the same manner, except this time it works with images. It adds all your images into one big image and adds the appropriate CSS to make it work. The reason to do this is that if you have 20 images in your design and posts, your browser has to send a request for each image individually, resulting in some significant lag time.
Other plugins that I use:
WP MarkItUp! is the best WYSIWYG editor of all time, because it is NOT a WYSIWYG editor! It is actually a complete markup replacement for the wordpress admin section. It is a must for serious authors that care about proper semantics and SEO.
Scissors for any image based site, it adds a lot of cool Media options including better resizing, cropping, and watermarks.
Fluency Admin is a very impressive admin skin for wordpress, with hotkeys to navigate it makes adding and updating a breeze.
WP-Syntax for any blogs that share code, using the GeSHi syntax highlighter that works with many common web programming languages such as PHP and javascript.
Use Google Libraries is excellent for blogs on shared hosts using javascript frameworks for animation. Also great for international blogs.
Great guide, Angie. Glad I found it, because I was pulling my hair out wondering how to configure my site for optimal performance. With your guide it’s a no-brainer. Tweeted, too :)
Hi Angie
I’m working my way through your setup guide – starting with security.
Can you explain a bit more about “Create a blank index.html file to hide directories: Put this file in every directory you don’t want people to be able to browse.”
I understand about creating a blank html file… but which derectories do I put it in?
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The permalink structure that involves %category% is not recommended from a performance point of view . You can read more at http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Category_base_and_Tag_base
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Great documentation and checklist. Very nice! Thank you.
“Remove The Admin Account: You’ll want to delete the default admin account that is automatically created when you install wordpress. Hackers know that this account is automatically added by default and is automatically assigned ID#1 making it an easy starting point for them. To do this go to Users, mouse over the admin account and click Delete.”
I can’t delete my admin account. Any other suggestions?
Any advice on this?
Simply Make another administrator account and then login from that accound.You will be able to delete that account after doing this.Hopefully this will help you.
Nice guide on setting up wordpress… thanks dear…
Wowwwww…..Its a great topic. I enjoyed lots.
Thank you very much for your descriptive article.
Informative yet detailed guide for wordpress starters, and also usefull for those who are already familiar with wordpress, great.
This article has been a great help to me time & time again! Thanks a ton Angie!
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Its a very useful notice for all kinds of a new wordpress blogger. Thanks for your valuable list……………….
I am new to blogging.
I can’t access to my login page after i changed something in my General Setting page of my blog (think the name of my page) .
Plus, there are only words showing in my page without the theme.
Anyone experienced this? Appreciate your feedback. Cheers!
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Off topic comment:
If possible, please give this theme for free download. I like it so much. I wish I knew working with codes to customize a theme!
Nice list.
Another great source for quality WordPress themes is Themeforest.net, as well as the Thesis theme (at DIYThemes.com).
Thesis looks fantastic to me. Being able to configure almost everything from the dashboard would be marvelous.
Only drawback? It aint cheap!
This is a brilliant step by step WordPress set up guide. I wish I had it a few months ago, when I first started blogging! Better late than never I guess…
I’m going to head back through my bloggsto adjust my settings per your suggestions, especially the deletion of the admin account!
Thanks for the help.
I am amazed with it. It is a good thing for my research. Because i have a blog about pets similar like you too ^_^
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Great post definitely worth a bookmark.
its a well structured step by step I shall be referencing.
Many thanks guys :)
Thanks, it was very helpful.
regards
M
This is a bookmarked resource…I owe you at least one design project!
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Thanks Angie, great list and well worth bookmarking. I myself have always wondered about that “Hello Dolly” plugin. Who actually activates that?
Thanks again
Hi Angie. Thanks very much for this post. I am on the verge of installing WordPress so this is a very timely article for me. This will be a great time and headache saver for me. Have a very happy and successful 2010!
I’ve just bookmarked this post. It’s a great checklist for me so that I don’t miss a single step whenever I setup a new blog.
By the way, as for step #5, I thought some ping servers will ban us due to excessive automatic pings? I use MaxBlogPress’s Ping Optimizer to handle the pinging task.
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Great list of plugins and tips. Thanks for the wonderful explanation :)
This is one of the most useful post for newbies blogger. All the information provided here are outstanding.
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Masya Allah.
All information provided on this ultimate guid is very good and Newbies blogger must know. Thank You
Hello Angie, I have to say you Blog is very complete and nice to see someone taking the time to help us non tech people out. Thank you very much. I Twittered your Blog and Book Marked it.
thanks for a very informative post… it’s a great help for a beginners like me. have a good day!
Hello Guru, what entice you to post an article. This article was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last week. Great info, but I wrote otherwise about this topic at my blog. I will bookmark your website and have my baby check up here often.
Great tips thanks. :)
wow wow very completly explain before running wordpress. Thanks for sharing
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You’re a saint, Angie – thank you! By sharing these tips you saved me from doing it the wrong way, and I would not have realized my mistake until it was too late.
Thanks again
well this is really helpful for bloggers like us, since wordpress is not that seo friendly out of the box, you have to tweak it a bit. Nice guide you have here.
this seem to be a newbie friendly setup, a step by step guide that walk you through from setting up an seo friendly blog.
Great job! This steps helps me to run up my blog.
I realy grateful for it.
Thanks, I like it. Because it is very successfully.
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Job well done, congrats. I already know few from this post but I have learned lot of new thing here like the feedburner and updating the ping list it’s my first time to here that.
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This was a fantastic article. I was using most of these plugins already but it’s definitely good to develop a structured list like this for each new site. Great work
Thank you Angie! Your write up has been very helpful in my seemingly never ending transition away from my currently dirty/nasty non cms based pages to WordPress!
thanks for the post it was really helpful
I rarely see a good article and complete in 1 pages like this one.
Thanks Angie for help newbie like me.
thx for the guide:) i find it helpful.
i find that security scan plugin is also good
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/
and i got a question :D
is there a way to let members post a new article but it posts with admin approval ?
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Thanks for this guide my friend. It will definitely help me set up my blog, as I am new to wordpress
thank for this article.Very important ..
Thanks Angie. That is an impressive checklist.
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Wow! Thanks a lot for your post! I have learnt new information and now I can easily create my own blog. Thanks for sharing the useful information.
thank you for this amazing article,,, i think that is good way to fix my blog wich slow loading page,,, thx a lots
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Hi,
thanks for this article. I have installed couple of plug-ins after reading this, which were missing from my original installation.
But one thing has constantly eluded me is the number of plug-ins to use in my wordpress blogs. Could you please tell me how many (or how less) plugins one can install without compromising on the speed of the blog.
Thanks
thing has constantly eluded me is the number of
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Your post solved all my problems, it’s very helpful. It’s a treasure for the beginner. Thanks for sharing information.
Great tips for beginners
I think you forgot the robots.txt file to disallow bots access to the folders and feeds
Polly says “Thank You!” for the list.
Thank you so much.I don’t understand about update services box.
Before I found this page,I thinks http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ will ping to a lot of search engines such as Google , Yahoo , Bing and others . It ‘s mean I have a big misunderstand with ping services right?
Great website. Where is the switch/button that enables have the ‘Leave A Comment’ box open at the end of the blog posts, like you have it???
I can’t find it. Is it in a plug-in?
I have learned A to Z about wordpress installation. All in One Seo Pack, is one most important plugin for wordpress users-please write more about this. Thanks for nice post.
Great post I really enjoyed reading it
Important plugin for wordpress users-please write more about this. Thanks for nice post.
really enjoyed reading it
Thanks and keep post such a informative sites.
Thanks for nice post.
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Thanks Angie for this wordpress newbie tutorial but you forgot the robots.txt step
Yours is one of several blogs I’ve found about setting up WordPress, but this is in the top 5. Thanks.
This is a fantastic overview of all the necessary steps to take. You make it so easy for everybody to start with wordPress. Even WP themselves didn’t make it so clear.
great post thanks for the advice
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Add another step.
Validate your RSS feed!
There are two services (free) that will do this.
(1) http://validator.w3.org/feed/
(2) http://feedvalidator.org
If your RSS (or ATOM) feed is broken, then other sites can read you!
Oh yea, might as well validate your theme too to make sure that isn’t broken.
Check the HTML here: http://validator.w3.org/
Check the CSS here: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
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Thanks for this valuable information .
I have worked over Word Press but i was not awiare of these things.
I just created so many blogs for my company such bestofmatrimony.com
but din’t use these things.
Thanks again!
I’ve posted a problem with my wordpress blog http://wordpress.org/support/topic/398667?replies=7
Can anyone please help me with this. I am yet unable to get a proper solution.
Thanks man!
I like most your first step that was about permalinks.
sure we have to change it for simplycity and for SEO purpose.
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I have very recently set up a WordPress blog, so the information here is of great value to me. Much appreciated.
I have been searching for a really good guide to setting up wordpress without any luck , until now. Nice blog post!
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I don’t use All in One Seo for my WP blog :)
but i am using seo ultimate
A great post. I like the easy to understand security tips, a blank index.html and changing the admin user are really important.
Thanks for the Lovely guide!
Bookmark’d!! Thanks a lot for the Guide :)
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This guide has some great information. It has made me aware of important aspects such as, performing backups, using a spam plug-in, Feedburner, and WordPress settings.
Thanks,
Brad
Great guide I’m really Informed and It’s great that you’ve included some screenies that’s really nice I did understand the guide easier than if no screenies are attached. Thanks Keep up the good work ^^,
Thanks for the guide, it has been very informative
A very good guide. Comprehensive and easy to follow…now if I can just find a way to have all of this done with one click…
Great post Angie, especially for this new blogger… Thank you Very Much!
THANK YOU! :D I’ve just implemented this on my blog and it worked perfectly. I appreciate you sharing this advice.
Many of these I already had implemented, but I did add the ping addresses to my set-up. Deleting the default admin account would be a huge, huge pain- my install is not new with over 1400 posts that I would have to change ownership of one at a time. Nope, not doing it… lol. I’ll just stick with keeping good passwords. This is a very useful list of things for the new WP install. Thanks.
You don’t have to do them one-at-a-time… Make sure you’re loged-on as the NEW user … then click the radio button that says something like ‘transfere posts to new user’ then make sure the new user is selected in the drop-down list and bingo…all done.
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Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed and
I hope you post again soon.
Its very awesome article,all the content is so beneficial and valuable for us.presentation of article is very good,so I will bookmark it for sharing it with
my friends.Thanks for sharing nice and pretty post.
Excellent information here. This blog post made me smile. Maybe if you put in a couple of pics it will make the whole thing more interesting.
Thanks for the tips, they have been most helpful
I like to..
Thank you for another great article. Where else could anyone get that kind of information
in such a perfect way of writing
There are a lot of great points here,
but I’m not sure I agree with real-time search being discarded.
Never the less I’m immensely glad to see that you feel the same way I do , thanks so much for your blog!
First of all, extension check is not acceptable, and second of all, you can get an exe file rename it as a txt.
Never the less I’m immensely glad to see that you feel the same way I do , thanks so much for your blog!
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Pretty cool post.It’s really very nice and useful post.Thanks for sharing this with us!it’s my first visit.Pretty
cool post.It’s really very nice and useful post.
Thanks for sharing this with us!it’s my first visit.
Great! Thanks for the great article posting and your all effort.
I think the above article is valuable for all concerned people about this topics.
For me the Informations are really really useful for my research. I’ve Bookmarked this page for future reference.
First of all, extension check is not acceptable, and second of all, you can get an exe file rename it as a txt.
BTW there is a good plugin called “smart 404” i love it cuz it search for similare topic instead of shown the 404 error.
WP is by far the best way to go about setting up a website. It’s basically a business in a box. Plus right out the gate the search engines LOVE WP.
Great implementation of a structured method. I personally use RSSbot to update my pings with one click its a pretty good program. Im thinking of changing the wp-admin string to a customized one – I see there are some pretty good webmasters out there that know there source codes but when you add wp-admin to there url the login panel comes up ?!
Hi there just started my own seo service just trying to spread the word.
Thank you
Come to my site
check out my blog
Never the less I’m immensely glad to see that you feel the same way I do , thanks so much for your blog!
This is a really helpful reference for me. I just put up a WP site a couple months ago and still trying to figure it all out
Thanks for sharing and this Great article and recomendations!
Thanks for the tips, they have been most helpful
There are a lot of great points here,
but I’m not sure I agree with real-time search being discarded.
I agree that it’s not very relevant,but isn’t the point of it
to show what people are currently saying about a topic.
Bookmarked and I can be sharing this. Thanks for the great resource.
very helpful :) thank you for sharing … i like wordpress very much
Permalink Redirect ain’t so necessary unless you’ve got posts with an old permalink and need to redirect them to the new permalink.
Subscribe to comments most definitely needed to be on this list.
I moved on from WP Super Cache to W3 Total Cache. The latter is simply AMAZING.
I thing this great blog and a heap of information well done to the Author.
Thanks for sharing the information. I found the information very helpful. i really like this post.
its really very great and informative post. thanks for sharing the information.
Such a very valuable information. Thanks for this excellent read.
I would like to thank you for the efforts you have made in composing this article. thanks for sharing the great information.
these are quite basic things eveery blogger must remember , really good share
these post will come handy to new bloggers with self hosted blogs
I’ve installed a plugin which should help to prevent, or certainly reduce anyone stealing content.
And, this one works with WP Version 3.0
http://www.wp-copyrightpro.com
What bugs me is… how many security flaws the default version of WP has… why not implement the WP security in the default version?
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I know this guide is for after install but has anyone had experience with the one click wordpress install hosts or is there a recommended one?
I would have to change ownership of one at a time
Hi Angie,
This was a great post with lots of easy to follow steps – most of them followed by myself. :) But I have a question, and wonder if you can help: on my google analytics account, I see that my site’s index.html file is appearing as being accessed the most by incoming traffic even though I don’t publish that link or use it. (My site is a wordpress blog.) Any way to make sure that traffic doesn’t go there? (It’s an empty page, so it shows up as a bounce on analytics. Don’t like that much.)
The guides are very helpful after you are finished installing. This is an easy way to accomplish your work quickly.
Thanks a lot Angie, this article is a life-saver for a first time blogger/wordpress user!
Cheers,
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What a great guide, thanks so much for these tips
Are you saying that given enough effort an image could be altered without leaving tell-tail signs?
Really, why would anyone get excited about the fact of alteration in a commercial shot.
How do you set up a domain name and run wordpress on that domain name? I started a blog, but since I figure that a domain name costs about 2 dollars a month, I might as well get one.
Is there an article on this site how to get a domain name and run wordpress off of it? I was thinking of using pairNIC, but I haven’t bought a domain name yet because I have no idea how to run my blog on there.
Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed and
I hope you post again soon.
Very nice. Now I can make sure that I can filter out any garbage of arguments that certain people make that I have no time to see.
The part about feedburner alone was a tremendous help! Thanks for the post!
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I’m having trouble finding a lot of the things on here. When I go to the settings area described, the option isn’t there. Such as in the writing section, there isn’t the “Update Your Ping List” or “Change Security Options” visible anywhere.
Any ideas? Is this guide for an older version of wordPress?
But how to set up robots.txt because google crwal all directory including wp-content folder, can you please tell me how to create robots.txt
Thanks for this tut. WordPress is an amazing blog platform.
Great advice. Is there a plugin that you can use to do all this for you. It would be a lot easier if you have multiply sites.
what is WordPress?
ITS really great blog thanx for share wp setup…….!
Thanks for a great tutorial!
This post is really useful. I must say that it is a must to read for all the newbies in wordpress. I’ve learned a lot from this post. Thanks for sharing great information.
I’ve been planning to switch to WP but Im actually not sure how to do that. Thanks for your guide.
nice way to display steps……understand easily….
Permalink structure was doing my head in, I couldn’t work out how to get titles as the links.
very helpful n i have apply some of steps to my blog
thxz :)
Hi Angie,
Thanks for the great blog post. I’m just finishing setting up our blog and it was simple with your step by step advice above.
Maui_Rick
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’ve now used your steps twice. Very easy to follow and understand.
Great Post Angie, You covered the important stuff. We’ll do all on my next wp install. thanks again
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wow, nice share…
I will just implement it to my website SOON… :D
thanks so much yaa…
I would recommend using a better pinging function. The one that comes with wordpress is good, but if you have a lot of comments your blog could be flagged for ping spam. That’s why I use a third party plugin that works great.
Very good tutorial. Thanks for sharing
Don’t forget to use seo and light wordpress theme. i like your post
cheers :)
Thanks for these tips. Will try and get some of these for my blogs.
Best you should change the webpage title The Ultimate Guide to Setting up WordPress after an Install | Pro Blog Design to more better for your webpage you create. I enjoyed the post all the same.
thanks for your tips. but I read at wordpress faq, permalink dont have to change… but this tips the permalink did change and I try both of them, and the result I much better change the permalink like this post. thanks.
Very cool guide and a good deal of depth to it too. Nice work, thanks for sharing.
Thanks your great article
Awesome website angie im just getting started on my own so hopefully well share ideas……
bookmarked for stuff i may of missed out cheers angie
Thanks for sharing. It’s great. I love reading this blog
Great setup list! Thanks for saving us time re”discovering” the wheel!
great tips.. thats good plugins
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a great post Angie, you covered everything, Thanks
Hi Guys, I will just implement it to my website SOON…
thanks so much yaa!
that’s very useful tips.. thank’s
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Nice list. It makes you save a lot of trial and error.
I didn’t realise how many things I was actually doing until reading this list.
yeah. i like this post anyway,, :)
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Great guide! Very complete.
Thanks for this.
Thank you for how to install.
i have a Question, how to add Ping List on Blogger?
i think some1 ever tell it to me but i was forget
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Hi, Thanks alot for this. It really helped me with setting up my first blog this past week. Kind of like a sum up of stage 1. This was the only article that seemed to have everything in one place. I’ll think I’ll check out some of your (nice) site…
Oh boy! I WISH I came across this post before starting to buy books from amazon on how to setup your wordpress account :( I am such a beginner.. I should have researched more! Thanks alot for the great tips and the way you listed the steps..it was pretty forward and I like that you used pictures.. makes it more easier and entertaining for me lol
Carol
For Some condition, do not install WP Super Cache, because some Hosting usually have problem with this plugin.
For example i have hosted in hawkhost, when my visitor up to 20k, the WP Super Cache make Overload my bandwith,
So for suggestion, use w3 Total Cache for your Cache Plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
I usually use the .html as an end to my permalink structure, that way the search engines treat the blog as a normal html site and, instead of using categories for ranking, I use the postname. so the permalink for all my blogs looks like /%postname%.html
Chances are you are going to want to reference and link to past relevant blog posts in your current ones. By default, when you do this, the post you link to will get a pingback from the new post. No Self Pings keeps wordpress from sending pingbacks from your blog to your blog.
Really I like to use MaxPingOpt with my wordpress blogs?
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-Alex
Great article!!Thanks for the step-by-step explanation.I followed these steps and successfully implemented it…thanks again for the information…Carry on the great work!
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Good read, Thx! Less is more.
Thanks a lot for these mate!
Great icons. Really beautiful and really cool. Thanks
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Nice list Rajesh!
There are thousands of WordPress built websites available on internet and it becoming popular day by day. These websites is very important as the number of hacker is increasing daily. I’ll use these steps soon…..
Thank you for your post, Word Press is a learning curve, and I still don’t understand it all, I am learning and sites like this help allot. I like all of your sites.
Would to see a revised version of this to suit the latest WordPress and current best practises.
This is probably the best WordPress Blog Post i’ve ever read. Very useful and informative. To echo the previous posters request it would nice to see an annual update of this post as it’s just so useful :)
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Great article! This will be really helpful when I help some graphic designers set up wordpress.
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Great post! Very helpful as I set-up another WordPress site and need to remember what I should be doing first ;)
Just started using wordpress, however I must say its a bit disconcerting all the plugins available.
Good info here, just started with wordpress, still not sure if I have the onpage seo right. Particularily with the description meta tag . Market samurai still says its not being picked up. anyone got any advice
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Wow, thanks for all the info. I had never heard this and have always read that postname alone was the best solution. That’s also the one I’ve been using for a while and haven’t had any trouble. But I also didn’t use wordpress before v2 so I may have just gotten lucky there.
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Angie,
This is a very comprehensive guide. After much trial and error over a long period of time, I’ve worked most of this out but you have shown me a fewnew good ideas – thanks for that. I hadn’t heard of Permalink redirect so I’m going to give that a try.
P.s. I also use ‘Dean’s FCKEditor For WordPress’ as I find the basic post editor to be very limited, and ‘Login LockDown’ helps control security as well
waa,it’s too complete.
I’ll back to my admin panel and re-check my setting now.
This is an awesome checklist for WordPress and blogging newbies. Very detailed as well, not just a list of things to setup, but a list of HOW to set them up as well.
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Excellent list Michael! One suggestion that I have been using is to use the “preview” function in WP when I am writing.
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I love WordPress, but it can be such a pain to set everything up for a new website. Thanks for the list that makes it that much easier!
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We set up probably 30 websites a month, and this is a checklist that can actually be used in the real world. Thanks.
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The permalink structure is key. It can totally screw up your seo efforts. Good post man.
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What is the best plugin to control dofollow/nofollow on comments?
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By the way, as for step #5, I thought some ping servers will ban us due to excessive automatic pings? I use MaxBlogPress’s Ping Optimizer to handle the pinging task.
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