14 Feb, 2010  |  Written by  |  under WordPress


What are the steps that I must do after installing WordPress?

After you install WordPress on your website you must do more steps to make your WordPress more secure and more advanced.

Sign in your WordPress Control Panel by typing this URL address in your browser bar:

http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/ Replace “yoursite” to your website address.

1) The first thing that you must do is to change “admin” username to another username.

2) You must activate Akismet plugin against spam comments.

How to activate Akismet plugin?

From WordPress control panel dashboard click on “Plugins”.

Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 1:
Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 1


When you land on plugins page check Aksimet plugin and click on “Activate” to active the plugin.

Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 2:
Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 2


After you click on “Activate” you are not finish yet, you will see a warning message above the plugins page that telling you that you need an “API key” to activate the plugin.

So to get “API Key” go to: Aksimiet plugin website, after you enter the website you have to register in Akismiet website to get the API Key, when you register they will send you the API Key to your email.

Akismet plugin website:
Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 3

After you get the API key for akismiet plugin, go to your WordPress control panel dashboard.
Then click on “enter your wordpress.com API key” link, you will be redirected to Akismet Configuration page.

Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 4:
Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 4


Copy the API key from your email and paste it in the correct fields (look at the screenshot bottom), now you have completely activated Akismet plugin.

Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 5:
Activating Akismet plugin screenshot 5

3) You should change your blog settings and your blog title.

How to change my WordPress blog title?

From WordPress control panel dashboard choose “Settings” then click on “General”.

Changing WordPress blog title screenshot 1:
change wordpress blog title screenshot 1

Change your blog settings and details like the screenshot bottom.

Changing WordPress blog title screenshot 2:
change wordpress blog title screenshot 2

4) We have to disallow breaking comments to pages to avoid duplicate content.

How to disallow breaking comments to pages?

From the dashboard click on “Settings” then click on “Discussion.

Disallow breaking comments screenshot 1:
disallow breaking comments to pages 1

From the Discussion page uncheck the “Break comments into pages” field then save your changes.

Disallow breaking comments screenshot 2:

disallow breaking comments to pages 2

5) You have to change the Permalinks settings (changing the look of your blog URLs) to make it SEO Friendly to help you improve your blog in the search engines.

How to change the Permalinks settings?

From the dashboard click on “Settings” then click on “Brand levitra style=”color: #ff0000;”>Permalinks“.

Changing Permalinks setting screenshot 1:

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In the Permalinks settings page click on “Custom Structure” field and change the settings like the screenshot above.

Changing Permalinks setting screenshot 2:

changing permalinks setting

The new Permalinks setting above means: your blog URLs will be like;

http://yoursite/categoryname/postname.html.

So “category” structure in the screenshot above means category links and “postname” means post links and “.html” to add .html after the post link and by these settings your URLs will be SEO Friendly.

The new Permalinks settings in the screenshot above is: /%category%/%postname%.html

Paste the code in “Custom Structure” field then save your changes.

6) This is not required you can do it if you want, we will change the default category name.

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First, a lot of people asking if they can delete “Uncategorized” category, the problem you can’t but what you can do is to change the name of this category. Viagra o levitra Vardenafil levitra

How to do it?

From the dashboard click on “Posts” then click on “Categories”.

Changing Uncategorized category name screenshot 1:

Changing default category name 1

In the categories page click on; “Edit” under “Uncategorized”.

Changing Uncategorized category name screenshot 2:


Changing Uncategorized category name screenshot 3:
Changing default category name 3

Change Uncategorized to your new category name in the correct fields like the screenshot above, then click on “Update Category” to save the changes.

7) Installing WordPress security scan in your WordPress blog to secure your blog and to hide your WordPress version from the attackers and many other features.

How to install WP security scan?

First you need to download it from this link: WP security scan

Extract the .zip plugin file and upload the folder to your plugins folder and this will be:

http://yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins

If you don’t know how to upload files please read about: How to upload files to a website

After you upload the plugin folder, go back to your WordPress admin control panel then from the dashboard click on “Plugins” then search for “WP security scan” then click on activate.

You can use and change WP security scan settings by clicking on “Security” from the dashboard.

8*) WP DB Backup plugin, this plugin is very important it will send you daily a backup of your WordPress database to your email and you can also download your WP backup to your computer.

How to install WP DB Backup?

First you need to download it from this link: WP DB Backup

After you download the plugin, extract the .zip plugin file and upload the plugin folder to your WordPress plugin folder.

http://yourblog.com/wp-content/plugins

Go back to your WordPress admin control panel then click on “Plugins” then search for “WP DB Backup” and click on activate to active the plugin.

From the dashboard click on “Tools” then click on “Backup”.

How to use WP DB Backup screenshot 1:
WP DB Backup 1

In the WP DB Backup page you will see two options:

How to use WP DB Backup screenshot 2:
WP DB Backup 2


1)You can download the backup to your computer.
2)You can send the backup to your email many times a day. Order viagra

As you can see from “Scheduled Backup” option you can determine how many times you want WP DB plugin to email you the backup every day.

Choose how many times you want your Backup to be emailed daily, type your email address in “Email backup to” field and click on “Schedule backup”.

I hope that all of this helped you my friends, if you have any question you can always contact me.

So what about you? Do you already have made these steps?

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