1. Add yourself as Administrator by Users –> Add New. I don’t like the default admin name.
2. Now login as this new user and delete admin account ( Added Security ), as anybody can guess ‘admin’ as username.
3. Go to Settings –> General and set the following parameters
- BlogTitle
- Tagline
- Allow users to register themselves ( if you wish to allow)
- Set your timezone, date format to D M d, Y and time format to 24 hr.
- Set Reading options.
- max no of post to display etc.
4. If hosting with Godaddy then make your wp-content folder writable by Login –> Hosting –> Control Panel –> content –> file manager –> made directory wp-content writable by selecting it and opting for setting permissions to read/write and inherit this to children. This step is for installation of themes and plugins without any security issue.
5. GoTo Plugins page
- Deleted Plugin Hello Dolly (I don’t like this)
- Activate plugin Akismat (to combat spam on your site.)
- Select Add New –> Browse Button –> address http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/one-click-plugin-updater.2.4.4.zip Installation of this plugin will help us immensly as we would be able to install plugin and themes directly from url, instead of downloading them first. If there is any problem, downloaded plugin updater from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/one-click-plugin-updater/ and install it.
6. Go to Themes –> install a theme
Install it from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/inove.1.2.3.zip
7. Set permalink type of your choice from Settings –> Permalinks
8. Go to Links –> Add, add any new link and delete all existing ones, you don’t need these.
9. Import posts and attachments. (if you are moving from your other blog)
