5 things to do after installing WordPress

So you’ve got your Word­Press installed, and you’ve logged in, and you’re on your dash­board. What do you do now? For some peo­ple who have used Word­Press for a long time, they already know what they’re gonna do. But for some­one that is com­pletely new to this, as easy as Word­Press is, using Word­Press can be a big headache. Today we’re going to talk about the things that you should do after you’ve suc­cess­fully installed WordPress.

#1 — Change Username

If you install Word­Press via Fan­tas­tico from cPanel, then you don’t have to do this, but if you install Word­Press via a FTP client, this is very impor­tant. If you install via Fan­tas­tico, you have the option to enter your pre­ferred user­name, but when installing via FTP, your default user­name is “admin”. But this is a secu­rity issue, because with the user­name admin, it’s easy for hack­ers to find the pass­word, and hack in your blog. In order to pre­vent this, after installing WP, go to your dash­board, under “Users”, click “Add New”. Then, cre­ate another user, with a dif­fer­ent user­name, and set the role as an admin, because that user that you’re cre­at­ing is going to be you. After you’ve cre­ated the new user, click “Log Out” on the top right hand cor­ner, and then login as the new user. After log­ging in as a new user, go to your Dash­board, and under “Users” go to “Authors & Users”. What you wanna do is you wanna delete the “admin” user. And that’s it!

#2 — Permalinks

As a default, your blog’s perma­links are gonna be some­thing like http://yourblog.com/?p=12. These are what they call “ugly” perma­links. Click here to read more about perma­links in the Word­Press site. After you have read that, you can go to your Dash­board, and under “Set­tings”, click “Perma­links”. From there you can change your perma­links. Be wise, because it’ll be hard chang­ing them again should you decide to.

#3– Theme

Before you start telling peo­ple about your site/blog, you gotta find a theme that suits your site. There tons of beau­ti­ful themes out there, while you’re look­ing for a free one, or you’re look­ing for a pre­mium one.

#4 — Plugins

Before you launch your blog, make sure you have all your nec­es­sary plu­g­ins installed, acti­vated, and con­fig­ured. Make your blog launch a big one, because you only do it once.

#5 — Launch…

When you’ve done the 4 pre­vi­ous things cor­rectly, you’re ready to launch your blog. So go ahead, and tell your friends, fam­ily, co-workers, and every­one you know.