5 things to do after installing WordPress

If you are new to WordPress, this article will be helpful to you.

As you already know, creating blogs with WordPress is actually very easy. Immediately after completion of the installation process lasted about 5 minutes, you can write content for the blog first. However, you do not need to rush it. You've still got some work unfinished.

Here are 5 essential job that you need to do immediately after installing WordPress.

1. Delete the article and page templates.

Immediately after your successful installation, WordPress will automatically generate a sample article (titled "Hello World") and a sample page (titled "Same Page"). The purpose of this is probably to introduce you to an article and a page will look like. However, whether it is necessary for you? Probably not. Therefore, immediately remove them.

Specifically, you need to do 2 things after

Click Post, dragging the article titled "Hello World" and press the Trash to delete posts.

Similarly, click Pages, drag the page titled "Same Page" and press the Trash to delete the page

2. Establish Permalink.

Permalink setup is that you set the topology for the posts, and pages. This is really very important before you post content to blogs first. When you look at the path, the reader and the search engines, parts can guess what you're want to mention is. Let's compare the two structures following link

Default topology: http://www.domain.com/?=n

Topology should be used: http://www.domain.com/post-name

Obviously, given Vietnam second structure than that of the default structure. It is more user friendly as well as search engines. Topology under the article title is always one of the top choices, it helps readers and search engines easily grasp the main content of the article or page, before clicking on that link .

3. Install some plugin needed.

Plugin is an extension to be programmed specifically to complement the features that WordPress has no default. Currently, the number of free plugin on WordPress library has exceeded a thousand, that's not even taking into account other premium plugin.

And, of course, you do not need to use all of the plug. Your job is to choose several plugins needed for your blog. Depending on the purpose of use that every blog will require different plugins. However, there are several plugins below

which in my opinion is that you install, it is suitable and necessary for every blog.

4.Setting interface set for blog.

The default WordPress comes with 3 free interface that Fifteen Twenty, Twenty Twenty Thirteen and Fourteen. However, three samples of the interface in general is quite simple little feature, designers do not start and do not attract viewers. Therefore, your next task is to install a different look for the blog. Please choose an interface that is eye catching, without too many features, but must meet the needs of the blog

Libraries WordPress now has over 4000 free interface for you to choose from. Besides, you can also choose other premium interfaces. The interfaces are often paid very beautiful design, functionality, and is supported during use. Some vendors interface you can reference is: Themeforset, Mythemeshop, StudioPress, ...... ..

5. Edit the basic settings.

Pretty much you forget to edit the basic settings for the blog. This is something extremely wrong, and make sure you are not suffering. To proceed, please log in to your WordPress Dashboard, select Settings => General.

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