7 Essential Things To do After Installing WordPress: After finishing the installation of WordPress , you are ready to build your new site from scratch. Today, with this blog post, I want to give you some ideas for working well without wasting pointless time, switching from one setting to another. Let’s go.
- Define Permalinks
You must do this process right at the launch, when the site has not yet been produced. The permalink labels the link structure of the site. The default WordPress ones are like this: http://www. techybomb.xyz /p=123
This permalink is very short and it is hard to remember and most importantly it is not liked by Google, nor by SEO. You have to replace it with a link that is more comprehensible for both users and search engines, such as: http://www. techybomb.xyz /define-permalinks
To do this, go to General Settings and select the Item. Remember: this process must be done before starting to write articles and pages on the site, because each new permalink is produced when saving the article.
Define WordPress permalinks
- Activate Akismet
Akismet is an important plugin that robotically checks and deletes spam comments on your blog posts or articles. You can find it by now installed in WordPress and you just need to start it. Go to Plugins, Installed Plugins, click on make active and then on Settings. Follow the instructions to activate the free plan and in 10 seconds you will have your plugin fully practical.
- Create your Gravatar
The Gravatar is essentially your smiley face next to the “Article author” heading or when you leave a observation under a post. If you see the picture of the modest gray man it means that the Gravatar has not been customized. It has a significant role in the branding of your business, to make you straight away recognized by those who read. It helps you build up relationships between you and your readers. To create it, user’s need to register your account on WordPress.com and insert the picture there.
- Update your user profile
By Updating your WordPress user profile, you can modify the name displayed on your articles, contact details, insert a short staging and social media link. I suggest you to offer as much information as possible to give the user a clear plan of you. To do this: go to the Users menu, enter your summary and start filling in the blank fields. Here’s an example.
- Set the Favicon
The Favicon (Favourite Icon) is the symbol that appears right away before your web address.
Create the favicon
It has some permanent uniqueness: it must have sizes of 16 x 16 pixels and use few colors (max 256). You can introduce it here and upload it to your theme.
- Change the motto
Modify the WordPress Motto field. You can discover it in the Settings, General menu and it is used to designate, in a few words, what the site or blog is about, who it is for and what it is for. It’s fundamentally the explanation of your site, explained in brief. Use a maximum of 160 characters.
- Check date and format
Ensure the date format, time zone and speech are right for you. Go to Settings, General and scroll down. There you will find the in sequence to customize. Here are mine.
WordPress date, time and language
I hope these 7 tips help you!
If you need some suggestions, just ask below in the comments. I’ll answer you soon.
