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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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WordPress is a full fledge software, and there are a couple of technical how to involve when you start using WordPress. Installing WordPress plugins is one of such thing that every self-hosted .

here you will read 4 different ways to install WordPress plugin .

WordPress blogger should know. WP Plugin Installation can be done in two ways, but here we will talk about most common and easy way and will talk about FTP way in brief. Technically,

WordPress offers two ways to install

 

WordPress plugins on your blog:

Search and install

Upload and install

1-FTP

In FTP method, you upload the plugin using a FTP software such as FileZilla or Cyberduck, and

activate and configure it. Whereas, in dashboard method, you search, find, install and activate the

plugin.

2-Search and Install Plugin from WordPress Dashboard:

WordPress dashboard is one of the easiest ways to search, find and install WordPress plugin. If you know the name of the plugin, you can directly search from the dashboard and install it.

Login to your blog dashboard and click on Plugins >Add new. You will see a screen like this and for

example sake, we will install WP optimize plugin. So, in this case, I searched for plugin WP optimize, and I got following results:

If you are searching about any new plugin, you can click on Details to see more information about that plugin. Make sure to see the compatibility score with your version of the plugin. If you know about the plugin, simply click on Install and activate the plugin as shown in next image.

 

If the plugin that you are searching for is already installed on your blog, you will get a result showing

already installed in front of the plugin.
So now next step is to go to the setting panel of that plugin and make all necessary changes. As
a blogger most of the time we make a mistake by installing plugins, but we miss out on properly
configuring the plugin, which makes it useful.
Tip: Whenever, installing a new WP plugin, make sure you read the documentation before 

installing.

3-Install WordPress plugin downloaded from 3rd party sites:

If you have downloaded WordPress plugin (Mostly premium), you can upload the .zip file and
install it from WordPress dashboard. Click on Add new plugin, there is an option to upload. Click
on that and upload the plugin folder. Do remember, at this moment WordPress only accept .zip

format for WordPress plugins and themes upload.

4-FTP method to Install WordPress Plugin:

This is another method that is very useful when you couldn’t install WP plugin using WordPress
dashboard. You simply download the WP plugin from WordPress plugin library, unzip it and
upload it to your WordPress plugin library using FTP software or cPanel. Normally, plugin upload
folder us located under wp-content/plugins. Once you are done uploading the file in unzipped
format, you can simply go to WordPress plugins folder under WP dashboard and activate the

plugin.

This is very useful for those who don’t have access to install plugins or themes from

dashboard due to server restriction.

Personally I prefer using dashboard search and upload feature and only in specific cases, Ineeded to use FTP method. Anyways, I assume if you just started with WordPress or if you
planning to start with WordPress, this guide to install WordPress plugin will be handy for you. If
you have any concern or question regarding WordPress plugins, Do let me know via comments.
Managing WordPress plugin is also easy, all you need to do is go to plugins folder under WP
dashboard and activate or deactivate the plugin. Some time, after installing a plugin you might
face issue while accessing your dashboard, in such cases you should simply log in to your FTP

account and disable that plugin by either renaming it.

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When I started blogging, stats of the blog was only for knowing how many visitors I’m getting,

and with time I realize stats of my blog is the key to blog growth. It doesn’t matter if you have a blog with 100 views a day or a blog with 100 millions views a day, you need to have a statsprogram which help you to track blog traffic and analyse them.

 

In my earlier post I have shared

about 3 stats program for WordPress blog, and Google analytics is one of the free stats program that is must have for any blog.

I would not get into details of benefits of Google analytics, as I have already covered it here. In this tutorial, you be learning about setting up your Google analytics account and adding Google analytics into your WordPress blog.

I have simplified this guide to non-technical users too, so you don’t have to worry about tech-how of Google analytics & WordPress integration.

How to Setup Google Analytics Account

Lets start the guide with setting up Google analytics account for your WordPress blog. You can repeat the same process for any website too. If you are doing this for your first website, you need to go to Google analytics page and login using your Google account or create an account which is free.

 

For the first time setup, you will be asked to add your website details and your personal

details to get started. If you are someone who already have an account,

click on admin tab at the

top > select account and click on add new property.

On the next page you need to add your website details to get the tracking code.

Click on Get tracking ID and you will be moved to the page with tracking ID for your website.

So far you have successfully setup your Google analytics account and created the tracking ID for your website.

Now the most interesting part of this tutorial begins;

as you need to integrate

Google analytics tracking ID into your WordPress blog. Let’s have a look at it into next section.

3 ways to add Google Analytics to WordPress

There are multiple ways to add Google analytics (GA) into your blog, and depending upon your level of blogging you should pick one of the below mentioned methods.

 

I’m putting down the different methods based on my recommended methods

Option 1) Google tag manager:

I started using Google analytics in 2014 and it become my only tag manager for all my sites. It’s free and using it you can manage all the tags for your blog from one place.

 

I recommend GTM to every professional and serious blogger. It hardly takes 5 minutes to setup and once you are done,.

Option 2) Using your WordPress theme:

Many of you might not beware of the fact that most of the WordPress theme have an option to add header and footer script. You can use this to add GA tacking code into your blog. Simply copy the tracking code which you obtained in the step1, and go to theme setting option,

 

look for option to add footer script and paste the code. It will work seamlessly and more over you don’t have to rely on another plugin for simple task. The above screenshot is from popular Genesis

theme framework.

Option 3: Using Google Analytics for WordPress pluginThere are many plugins which are available in WordPress Plugin repo to add Google analytics to

your WordPress blog, but Google Analytics plugin by Yoast is the best. All you need to do is to install GA for WordPress plugin from official repo (plugin link) and configure it, which I have explained below.

Once you have activated the plugin, you will see a popup asking to allow or

disallow tracking, which I prefer to select “Do not allow tracking”.

Go to settings > Google analytics to configure the plugin and click on click here to authenticate

with Google or you can also select manually enter the UA code.

Click on save setting. 

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There are two important components of a typical WordPress installation:

1-WordPress files stored on your server

2-WordPress database

It’s very essential for you to timely cleanup WordPress database and reduce the size. This is a must-have process for every WordPress user to keep the size of their database at minimum and

keep their WordPress blog fast. Over the time your WordPress database have many redundant table, unused records and many entries which you can remove without affecting your website.

This will help you a lot to reduce load on your server and your WordPress performance will

improve. In this tutorial I will take example of helprobo WordPress database which is of size 286.3 MB before cleaning up, and will share exact steps I took to drastically reduce the size of my blog database. You can follow this guide step by step and work on your blog. 

Only few of the points might require technical know-how, and if you find yourself questioning there; feel free to ask

question or skip that step. So, let’s get on with this simple DIY tutorial.

Tutorial: How to Reduce WordPress Database Size

I’m mentioning steps in the series I followed to reduce the database size, and I suggest you to follow the exact methods.

Step 1: Take WordPress database backup

This is most essential step which you need to take before you work on your blog database. In my case I have used my hosting company backup feature (WPEngine backup feature) to take

complete backup of the database and all files. You can use WP-db manager plugin to take

backup of your database file. You can find tutorial over here to learn taking WordPress backup.

My recommendation here is WP-db manager plugin as we will be needing to run few SQL query, empty and drop database tables with this one useful plugin.

Step: 2 Disabled and delete unused WordPress plugin:

Now go through theactive plugin list of your WordPress blog and first disable those plugins which you are not using anymore.

There might be plugins that you use once in a while, So I suggest you can disable them too and install when you need it again.

Our goal for today is to completely optimise the database size. Only disabling will not be of much help here, so make you

also delete those unused plugins.

The reason being is to clean out the database table that are created using those unused plugins. Need some useful plugins?

Basic WordPress plugins for every blog
Must have SEO WordPress plugins

List of plugins that I use here at ShoutMeLoud 

Step : 3Delete all spam comments, trash posts and post revisions:

What ever comments you have in spam folder and trash folder, empty them. Similarly delete all posts from trash folder and delete post revisions. You can use WP-optimize plugin to get this done with one click.

Step : 4 Find and clean orphan table:

Now follow this tutorial and install and use Clean options WordPress plugin to find orphan and unused tables in your database. Using this plugin you can clean all such tables.

This is quite critical step and use it when you are sure of the table names which you are not using. If you are in confusion, I would recommend skip this step.

Note: Deactivate and uninstall the plugin after using it

Step: 5 Remove unused Meta value from Database (Caution: For tech people only)

This is one step which I use once in a year and suggest you to do it only if you are accustomed with PhpmyAdmin. If you have earlier worked on PHPmyadmin, you can simply follow this easy

tutorial and get rid of all unused meta value from database.

This won’t be decreasing down your database size significantly but again this is useful if you are highly determined to clean up your

WordPress database.

Step : 6 MySql Queries to reduce database size

One of the table which is a major cause of increased database size is wp_commentmeta due to Akismet plugin. Before running below mentioned query, my commentmeta size was 146 MB and after that I reduce its size. 

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How to secure WordPress Blog? 

Tip to secure WordPress Blog? 

In recent time, WordPress has been highly targeted by bloggers. Since WordPress uses MySQL and Php, it’s not tough to find a vulnerability in WordPress.

Here I’m sharing some newbie tips to Secure WordPress blog. These are basic tips but sometimes missing these basic tips, may lead 

to losing your WordPress blog by some hacker.

WordPress powers 25% of the website in the world & is most popular CMS apart from a blogging software.

I can quite confidently say that, being a user of this awesome CMS for the past 6 years.

I simply love the fact that I could choose from tens and thousands of plugins from the

WordPress plugin database. The plugin database has never failed me if you need to add a new feature to my blog,

 

someone has already made a neat plugin for that and shared it for everyone

to use. There are endless options when it comes to themes, as well, right from the Genesis theme

to Thrive themes.

That was the good part but whenever there is good, there is also evil too.

My site has been hacked nearly 6 times in the past by some Arabian and some Turkish hackers (atleast that’s what

they claim from). They leave your site with an ugly black background with GIF images of skulls and Ravens.

 

Most of these hack attacks are done by what is called as an SQL injection.

Nowadays it has become a necessity to do all the preliminary safeguarding measures to keep these hackers at bay.

Proven tips to Secure any WordPress Blog:

1. Configure the backup:

Well, I have given a lot of proven tips below to secure your WordPress blog, but no matter what you need to ensure if something goes wrong you can restore your blog. Not having a proper WordPress backup solution in place is the biggest mistake you can have. When a big site like Sony, Dropbox can be hacked, a WordPress blog is relatively easy to be cracked by a hacker.

So first thing first, ensures you are taking a daily backup of your blog. If you are earning money from your blog, I would suggest using VaultPress for the backup which cost only $5/month.

You might say that your hosting offers backup which is good only if they store the backup on the different server.

2. Use reliable & secure hosting company:

Your WordPress installation is just a software installed on a server. The foundation of a secure website is the server which has enough provision to stop hackers from getting inside your website.

A free web-hosting company is a big nay for you & something one should avoid. Ensure

your hosting company have placed proper rules & have the firewall to stop the server from attacking your website.

I understand that it’s hard to know which hosting company is reliable against hacker & that’s why I have created this quick list of hosting companies that offer great security on their server level.

B-Bluehost:

One of the top rated hosting which offers great security.

InMotion Hosting: Founded in 2001 & since then they are known for great hardware quality &

security infrastructure. They also migrate your existing site for free.

A-WPEngine:

 

A managed WordPress hosting

company which is recommended for business 

WordPress sites with low or medium traffic. They offer backup, security at multiple levels.

3. Update WordPress

Keeping your WordPress up to date is the first and basic security tip for any WordPress blogger.

This is something that you never want to miss, whenever WordPress is sending an update, it means that they have fixed some bugs, added some features and most importantly added some security features and fixes.

You never want to miss out on this.

When you see the message WordPress x.x.x is available! Please Update.

Especially, with one click update, it’s easier to upgrade your blog. Make sure, your theme andplugins are compatible with the latest version of WordPress.

If an update has been rolled out and

it’s not a security update, I suggest you to wait for 5-6 days, before other users stop reporting 

any bug in the latest version of WordPress.

4. Update WordPress Plugins

update your WordPress plugin because there is risk In using unknown and malicious WordPress plugin but If you don't know that which website can you use for WordPress plugin so try this some trusted sites by user.

you can use www.Sumome.com or you can use www.privy.com for install WordPress plugin .

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WordPress is  being popular but security vulnerable platform, it’s important for us to keep our WordPress blog secure.

Here I’m sharing some essential WordPress security tips, which will help you to keep your blog safe and secure.

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How to secure your WordPress Blog? 

Top security tips to secure your WordPress Blog? 

When I was 17, I hacked our university’s web-portal to get the semester final questions draft by entering into teachers area.

I needed the questions of ‘network security’ course, so I attempted to

login as rohit (the respective teacher) and I succeeded in a few attempts to get his password as it was his girlfriend’s name without any space. 😃

Reading my story of hacking, as a webmaster, you might be strained about your website security.

For any website, a security strategy is a must. And as wordpress is the most popular open source software for blogging, it is a primary target of many malicious attacks.

Luckily, by the strength of being open source software, wordpress has many protective plugins,

functions and techniques to save you.

When used in an aggregate, these tools can defend you from vicious activity, hacks, spam and other threats. Let us have a look to few of these

techniques today.

Useful WordPress Security tips:

1-Always upgrade:

Always upgrade your wordpress version, theme and plugin to the latest version. The upgrade may fix any security bug from the previous version, so it is wise to be upgraded.

Hide your wordpress version number:

For some reason, if you cannot upgrade to the latest wordpress version, do not let hackers know your current version.

As the bugs of previous releases are known to all through wordpress.org, it will easier for them to attack your website. You can hide your wordpress version number by

following below instructions:

If you are using an older theme, remove the following line from your theme’s header.php filephp
bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
If you are using a newer theme, just add the following in your theme’s functions.php file

Be careful about plugins: Be careful about installing plugins. Weak plugins may have buggy codes through which some

other codes or sql queries can be injected or some other harmful activities can be done to

damage your site or its ranking.

Check plugin’s ratings and popularity before installing it. And to be sure, read reviews or ask your blogger friends about the plugin you are going to use.

While upgrading plugins to latest version, make sure you upgrade wordpress plugin in correct

way.

2-Secure administrator account:

Prior to wordpress version 3.0, the default wordpress installation used to come with an

administration account ‘admin’ as username. As the hackers know it, they will always try this.

Make sure, your administrator account username is not something easily guessable like ‘admin’, ‘yoursitename’ or ‘yourname’. If you already did so or you had installed a wordpress version older than 3.0, you need to change it.

3-Disable directory browsing:

Enabling directory browsing in your site is comparable to keeping your door always open, so that the thief can see your wealth inside house and can do a plan to steal. 😃

I hope you understand the importance of keeping your door closed A simple trick to disable directory browsing is to upload a blank index.html or index.php file in each directory and sub directory except the root.

Also make sure this WordPress hack to find the plugin used in your website does not apply to your website.

Monitor any hacking attempts using wassup:

Wassup is a wordpress plugin that records details data of each user.

Using this plugin you can monitor any malicious activities like code/sql injections.