Starting Your Own Blog – Part 5
Posted by: JakkiConfiguring WordPress
The next thing you need to do is edit your settings in WordPress and get your blog ready to receive content.
The list below, with screenshots, is a list of the default settings you need to change:
(there is also a video at the end showing these being done)
1. Delete the “Hello World” post.
2. Delete the “About” page.
3. Change default “Category” to your keywords
4. Delete all default “links”
5. In Settings – General – edit your blog title to reflect your main keywords and same for the tagline.
6. In Settings – Writing – add your list of sites to ping when you make a post. You can get our recommended list by sending a blank email to: wcwpinglist AT aweber.com (replacing AT with @ and removing the spaces)
7. In Settings – Reading – Make sure “your latest posts” is selected
8. In Settings – Discussion -
Select “An administrator must always approve the comment”
9. In Settings – Privacy – ensure “I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers”, is selected
10. In Settings – Permalinks – Select custom and enter: /%postname%/
In Setting Up Your Own Blog Part 6 we look at WordPress Plugins
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