Help Setting up a WordPress Blog Tutorial
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In this tutorial I will guide you through changing your Wordpress blog settings to make your Wordpress blog more search engine friendly, look better for your visitors, and make your Wordpress blog easier to work with! Your Wordpress settings are easy to change, but do not change any Wordpress setting that is not mentioned in this guide unless you know what you are doing, or you may screw up your Wordpress blog and render it inoperable!
So if you have a few minutes to spare to make your Wordpress blog more optimized for search engines, look more professional to your visitors, and all around easier to manage continue reading this how to guide on how to setup your wordpress options and settings!
- First login to your Wordpress blog by going to http://domain.com/wp-admin/
- You will want to create yourself a username and not use the Admin login user, you will still be an administrator.
- Click on Users on the left hand side towards the bottom
- click Add New User under Users section
- Username: use your firstname all lowercase (brandon)
- First Name: correct grammer with capital (Brandon)
- Last Name: correct grammer with capital (Stimmel)
- E-mail Address: email address you want to use, not publicly shown, (brandon@domain.com)
- Website: http://domain.com
- Password: whatever you want your password to be
- Role: You want to set this name as an Administrator.
- Click Add User
- Now you are done creating your User, now let's move on.
- Now we want to change your General blog settings
- Click on Setting on the bottom left
- click General (should already be there by default)
- Here we need to changea few things:
- Blog Title: use a keyword phrase you want to be known for
- Tagline: this will be a slogan type deal or a one sentence description for your website, you can target a keyword phrase here as well.
- Timezone: set your timezone EST is -5, EDT -4, etc. If you don't know this, it's realy no big deal.
- Click Save Changes at the bottom
- Now your General Blog Settings are done, let's move on to other Wordpress settings.
- Now let's setup your Writing Settings:
- Click Writing on the left under Settings section.
- We need to change these settings:
- Size of the Post Box: this is set default to 10, which is small, use 32 to make your content area of writing a post/page bigger
- Update Services: click on this file to get WORDPRESS UPDATE SERVICES, just select the blog ping services you want to use, right click copy, go to this box on your blog and right click paste. Note the first one listed on my website is probably already listed on your settings. If you get a warning about your blog not being public, click on Privacy under settings and make sure it is set to "I would like my blog to be visible to everyone...".
- Click Save Changes button at the bottom. You are done with your Wordpress Writing Settings!
- Edit your Wordpress Reading Settings: (This is only needed if you want your Wordpress blog to look and act like a website instead of a blog. I highly recommend doing this!)
- Click on Pages on the left side
- Click Add New under Pages
- Title this Page either Home or whatever the title of your website is
- Write in the content of your home page.
- Click Publish on the top right hand side.
- Click on Reading under Settings on the left side of your Wordpress blog
- For Front page displays: select "A static page (select below)"
- Now for Front page: select either Home or the title of your website, depending on what you called your home page.
- Posts page: just leave this set as "- Select -".
- Click Save Changes at the bottom.
- Now we need to edit your Permalinks settings, which is very important.
- Click Permalinks under Settings on the left, here you want to change:
- Common Settings: select Custom Structure and type in
/%category%/%postname%/ - Click Save Changes to update your permalink structure. If you get a warning about your
.htaccessfile, you either need to change permissions of your.htaccessfile or edit your.htaccessfile yourself.
Now your Wordpress blog settings are setup the way we want them to be. This will make your Wordpress blog more search engine friendly and also look better for your visitors on your website. Next you will probably want to Install Wordpress Themes and Install Wordpress Plugins.
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