8 Essential Things To Do After Creating WordPress Blog For First time

Hey friends welcome To HELPROBO 

This is the part of our Learn WordPress series and in this post you will learn how to set up

WordPress after the fresh installation. So far you have learned:

blog in the right manner. You can download WordPress Guide eBook for A-Z of setting up

WordPress.

This is the list of essential WordPress settings you need to follow after installing WordPress.o

Essential WordPress settings for beginner:

When you install WordPress, it’s just a stock installation with few stuff like a dummy post,

dummy page, dummy comment. Rest there are many things that you need to do to make it ready

for yourself and public. So, let’s get started with the essential settings that you need to make:

1-Delete default Posts and page:

Login to your WordPress dashboard and go to 

Posts> All posts and delete the default

“Hello world”

post. Similarly go to Pages > All pages and delete the default “Sample page”.

2-Set up WordPress Permalink:

The default WordPress permalink is like http://yourdomain.com/p=123 This permalink is short
but not friendly for search engines.

You need to change it to make it search engine friendly.

Go to settings > Permalink and select the post name and click on save. This ensures that your

permalink when appearing in the search engine, it will contain some keywords, and your blog

posts will rank better in the search engine.

Here is an example from my live blog:

3-Set your time Zone:

Remember at the time of installing WordPress on Bluehost, we added site-name & tagline. You can change it anytime from this setting page.

This is where you will configure your homepage name and tag line. This is very important,

as by default this is what shows up in Google search. Email address will be your site admin Email address,

and this is where you will get all the Email notifications related to your site. Make sure

you set up the time zone to your local time, this will make sure your scheduled post will go according to your time zone.

4-Disable users registration

It’s always a good idea to keep your registration open if you are creating a WordPress site like HELPROBO any other Websites which allow guest posting, but spam registration will be a

pain. But, if you are sole writer and don’t need people to register, I recommend you to disable the WordPress registration Disable it under Settings > General.

5-WordPress discussion/comment settings:

This is another section that you should setup just after installing WordPress. Just follow the

Seo and put the checkmark in front of the field as seo friendly .

6-WordPress Ping list:

By default WordPress ping only one ping service, you can notify many more services by extending

the ping service. Add more ping list here at Settings> Writing.

You can get a big list of Ping list on

the search engine : WordPress ping list.

7-WordPress Media Settings:

This one setting will improve the way WordPress handles image upload. By default, WordPress
create multiple sizes of one image that you will upload. It’s not a good advice as most of the
WordPress theme have their own settings for featured image. Go to Settings> Media & use the
below screenshot to configure the settings:
You should also add a plugin which compresses the images as you upload. You can read all

about WordPress image compression here.

8-Disable directory browsing:

For this setting, you need to edit your WordPress .htaccess file. You can follow this guide to learn
about editing WordPress .htaccess file. It’s pretty easy.
Add this line of code in your .htaccess file (At the bottom)
Options All -Indexes
This will disable directory browsing. One important step for the security of your blog.
Quick Recap
WordPress Permalink Structure.
WordPress time zone.
Threaded comment.

WordPress ping list

WordPress Media

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