This is how we like to set up a WordPress blog from scratch.
1. Install WordPress using Cpanel’s ‘Fantastico’ auto installer. Note down your admin login details!
2. Login to your ‘Dashboard’ and look for any system updates at the top, install the latest core updates if required.
3. Go to the ‘Appearance’/’Themes’ tab – Choose ‘Install Themes’ if you want to search for a new theme.
4. Go to ‘Settings’/ ‘General’ and edit your site name and description, timezone & date format
5. Edit ‘Reading Settings’ to show static page or latest blog post as your landing page.
6. In ‘Settings’/’Discussion’ un-tick ‘Allow people to post comments on new articles’ and set ‘Before a comment appears’ to ‘An administrator must always approve the comment’, in ‘Avatar Display’, select ‘don’t show’ and in ‘Default Avatar’ select ‘blank’
7. In ‘Permalinks’, change to MONTH AND NAME
8. In ‘Posts/Categories’, set categories to ‘site news’ or your own choice.
9. Visit all existing posts and pages (there should be 2) and un-tick ‘allow comments’ – go to ‘screen options’ at the top and tick ‘discussion’ to show the ‘comments options’ at the bottom.
Page order – For example, set your contact page to ‘9’ and consider the other page orders (this option is found on the right hand side of page when in edit page mode)
That’s the basic stuff covered, now edit the theme, add images, posts, pages, widgets etc. Read on for our suggested plug-ins list… Continue reading “WordPress set up from vanilla install”