subject: 8 Things To Do After Installing Wordpress [print this page] But new webmasters who have not worked yet within the WordPress administration area would usually find it to be confusing due to the many features provided by WordPress and there are several settings to configure and tweaks that novices would find it perplexing to get started.
Here are the eight things you need to do after installing WordPress.
Change the admin password and manage your authors "" The default admin account for WordPress installing is admin and password of the account is alphanumeric that is typically more than eight characters. The chance you might forget the password is high so after you have installed WordPress, you should make a new user and assign it with a password you can remember.
Edit permalinks "" By default, the link of your posts would appear like www.yourwebsite.com/?p=23 in which 23 is the exclusive ID of the article. However, you should remember that it is not SEO optimized permalink structure and it is important that you change it so it becomes SEO-friendly. To edit the permalink structure of your WordPress blog, all you have to do is login to your WordPress admin area, go to Settings then Permalink.
Upload your theme and activate it "" Your blog design has impact directly user behavior. The colors, fonts, styles and layout of the theme of your site must not hurt the eyes of the readers.
Activate Akismet "" When you install first WordPress on your site, there is a plugin that will be installed automatically known as Akismet which is a plugin preventing 99.9% of comment spams on your website. It is effective and activating it would certainly be worth your time. You just have to go to your WordPress Administrator Dashboard then click Akismet configuration under Plugins.
Install Google XML Sitemaps "" Getting found to tons of customers and readers is one o the main goals of any webmaster. You would certainly want to drive traffic to your blog and the best way to do that is to obtain organic traffic from search engines. This is why it is necessary for you to install Google XML Sitemaps.
Install WordPress database backup "" The database storing all the data and settings of your WordPress installation is your site"s heart and soul. In case your database gets deleted from the server or if it becomes unusable or corrupt, all your pages, posts, comments and settings will be lost. Therefore it is vital that you consider database scheduled backups and save a local copy of your files on your PC.
Add your RSS feed to Feedburner "" Feedburner"s chicklets are used in adding the standard orange radar button on your blog, allowing the reader to subscribe the RSS feeds of your choice.
Install Google Analytics "" You have to install the WordPress plugin known as Google Analytics for WordPress. It can be installed by uploading it into your plugins folder or search in from the WordPress dashboard area.
