Installed Wordpress now what

New WordPress installations are a nice thing - neat, easy and full of it. However, before you can begin to design your WordPress website and upload your contents, there are some fundamental things you need to do to correctly set it up and get the most out of it.

What I suggest is what I consider to be the absolutely essential things you need to do when working with WordPress. Cenay Nailer especially suggests 22 things that you should do after the installation of WordPress, while at Pro Blog Design they suggest 10 things.

But I don't think they have to be done the first times you login to your WordPress administration pane, which is the point of view I come from. Without further a do, here is my listing of the 8 fundamental things you should do right after you install WordPress. Once you have installed WordPress and installed and installed the setup, WordPress gives you an automatic WordPress generation passphrase that you can use the first login.

It should be a piece of cake, but make sure you turn this into something you can more easily recall. Have you never previously set a WordPress passphrase? It' easy - just go to the users area, click on the administrator button and browse down until you can reset your passwords.

WordPress creates a standard hyperlink using data base character chains - e.g. http://www.example.com/? p=N. It is not the most user-friendly or SEO-friendly form, which is why most users opt to activate permission links. In order to activate permission links, you need to load an HTTPACCESS message to the roots of your website and give it reading and writing permission (0666), which you can do with most FTP applications.

Then go to Preferences > Perma links to activate them in one of the specified styles or adjust them in your own style. More information, as well as what a HTTPACCESS is, can be found on the "Use Permalinks" page in the WordPress codec. Acisment is a plug-in that is strongly encouraged for use on your WordPress Web site - so strongly encouraged that it is already built into your WordPress initial installation on your Web site.

If you are activating Akismet, you will need a WordPress Application Programming Interface (API) code to finalize the Activation. One can be obtained by signing up your WordPress website at WordPress.com, which is different from WordPress.org. This might be a good moment to get all the plug-ins you know are needed on your WordPress website.

Of course, there will probably still be some configurations that you will need to do to make everything work correctly on your website. New to WordPress and you don't know which plug-ins to download, have a look at my main plug-ins for your WordPress website or your idea blogs.

I' ve been writing elsewhere about the advantages of adjusting the WordPress logon screens, and it's something I like to do for all the customers I create a WordPress website for. Helping to make it simpler for them to use WordPress, it is a small additional touches that can make a big contribution to personalize the administration for them.

I have described in detail the methods of working with the PHP and the CSS file supplied with the WordPress install. That' s okay if you want a more fancy logon but the downside is that when you update your WordPress install, you loose all these features. Found a beautiful plug-in named WP Custom Logon Form image that I used instead to let you adjust the picture you will see on the WordPress logon page.

In this way, my customers will continue to see their logos on the sign-in screens, no matter how often the WordPress release changes. For your contributions, WordPress creates a standard categorization named "Not categorized". However, if you do not want the Uncategorized to appear on your Web site, you should change the name of the categories.

In general, this is a good suggestion, because you never know when you might be forgetting to choose a forum for your contributions - this has already happen to me, and I don't like to see the "not categorized" ad as a forum in my own blogs. Reneame Not Categorized - You can modify the name of the Not Categorized catagory just like anyone else.

Just go to Contributions > Categories and then customize the categories name as you like. Select another standard catagory - Make a new catagory with a name of your choice and go to Preferences > Write. At the top of the page, you will see a drop-down list where you can set the standard categories to the ones you made.

Well, now that you've taken some of the provisional steps, you'll want to submit your topic file so you can really get started designing your website. You can use an FTP client of your choice to transfer the topic file to the topic file directory of your choice: wpcontent > Topics. Then go to Appearance > Topics and enable this special topic.

So if you are using an already designed website, then your WordPress website should be quite good. When you are a designee, you can begin to develop and test your designs here. As soon as I write a WordPress topic, I write the file in Adobe Dreamweaver and FTP it to the webmaster.

They do not all have Dreamweaver or want to use FTP, so they need a way to occasionally refresh these data as well. First of all, you need to give your topic data writing rights so that it can be edited in the topic editors. This can be done in the same way as you do with your HTTPACCESS executable when activating permission links.

Once you've installed WordPress, what are some of the things you do to setup it? Is there anything you do that is different for a client's WordPress site from your own WordPress site?