Designing and running a blog was never so easy before the wordpress had stepped in. You can perform numerous things on your blog after installing wordpress, but you must not forget to accomplish the things as enumerated below on your blog immediately after installing the wordpress. It will not only enhance your blog’s life expectancy but will also improve your blog bounce rate. Timely implementation of these issues will ensure having an optimized blog running up to fetch all the web-treasures you desire.
Most important things that you may need to do after installing wordpress on your blog, will differ depending upon your web requirement and nature of your blog. However, ten most common things that you must perform on your blog after installing wordpress are:
1. Change password
The foremost thing you are required to do is changing the password. Go to ‘Change the Admin Password and Manage Your Authors’ and set your handy easy-to-remember password.
2. Look at User Panel and allow others to join
Once password is set, now you concentrate to arrange your house so that new blog creators can join you to gratify your web presence. Users panel is the place where you can set such type of personalized user settings.
3. Adjust Media Settings
Though you have the option to resize your images for your blog to best suit your content width, but at times, you may find it difficult and cumbersome to resize them manually each time you post an over-sized image. Besides, if you forget to resize your posted image, you may face problem with your blog post. Therefore, if you pre-resize your images by updating your desired media values at Dashboard| Settings| Media, you will be able to save your precious time as well as infuriation.
4. Change and update URL structure
This is important as far as page viewing of your article is concerned. If you avoid this customization, you will have your article’s URL as something like www.myylife.com/?p=295. Look at the structure of the URL. Is it having any attention-grabbing criteria on it? Technically speaking too, SEO response for such type of URL is poor. Users can’t remember such structure. So, wordpress gives the solution. You need to Edit Permalinks and modify URL structure in order to have a fascinated url. While doing so, include key-word rich article title to get a URL something like www.myylife.com/5-reasons-to-choose-green-bikini. Do you love it than the default url? Move on to Settings> Permalinks> Common settings> Custom Structure. Include %articlename%/ or %category%/% articlename%/ in the appropriate field.
5. Ensure you have backups of your blog
You must not forget to include installation of a Database Backup Plugin in your list of things to do after installing wordpress on your blog. Let me tell you why it is so imperative. You know, database forms the main driving force for wordpress. Whatever you post, all go into a database. Now, imagine what will happen if the database crashes and you don’t have a backup of latest update for your celestial blog? You could be lost. Is that acceptable to you? So, take little pain to install a Database Backup Plugin, one good example of which is the WP-DBManager Plugin, after installing wordpress on your blog. After installing and activating, select DB Options from Dashboard| Database and select the maximum number of backups and don’t forget to setup auto-email feature. You are safe now. Your e-mail address will keep on receiving backups of your wordpress database in zipped form.
6. Design and Upload Your Theme and make it Active
By this time, you must have designed your cool theme. If not, get it done now. You may also download a theme to suit your requirement. Make sure you unzip your theme before uploading after installing wordpress on your blog. The action requires you to move to wp-content > themes followed by appearance > themes to activate your design.
7. Install Google XML Sitemaps
Some may say this is optional. But, I recommend, you must do it. Make a note of it. This helps you achieve one of the primary objectives of your web presence. Once installed, a compliant XML Sitemap is generated for your site inspiring search engines to index your site. Isn’t it amusing? Visit Google Webmaster Central> log in. Find a link on the first page to verify your site. Once verified, once again find a link on the first page to Add Sitemap and follow instructions there to complete the action.
8. Modify the Default Category to add your own
You might forget to add this task to your list of things to do after installing wordpress on your blog. In my experience, majority of the hardcore bloggers do so. By default, your blog appears ‘Uncategorized’. It is highly recommended that you should take special care to add a subjective category for your blog by visiting Posts> Categories. Change the ‘Uncategorized’ to a most appropriate one for your blog.
9. Add Ping servers
By default, wordpress adds only one ping server for your use. This is not fair as far as your traffic-dream is concerned. You must change it to accommodate as much servers as you want for unflinching flourishing of your blog. You may take little time to update this feature. Don’t be in a hurry to select the servers.
10. Activate Akismet
Akismet is a very useful plugin offered by the WordPress. It protects your blog from being comment-spammed. Activate the plugin by visiting admin area> Plugins page. For this, you need to register yourself at WordPress.com and then get collected one API key from your profile page. This key is required to be pasted at Plugins> Akismet Configuration in order to activate the Akismet. With this, you have successfully positioned a watchdog on your blog from your key list of things to do after installing wordpress on your blog.
You have something more to add to this list that all wordpress users needs to implement on their blogs, if yes please share in the comments section.
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Yes this post is exactly true.
this is what we have to do after we upload wordpress.
2 More – add a sticky post and add a post footer via Plugins for SEO purposes!
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