WordPress Post-Install Checklist

Filed in: WordPress — January 17th, 2007

Although WordPress is easy to install and it runs out of the box, you should update some settings before starting to blog. Downloadsquad published the complete post-install checklist. A great list with detail instructions.

Create blog title, add email address
Change your password
Disable visual rich editor
Add users
Change the tagline
Edit Membership permissions
Set a date and time format
Modify Reading and Writing settings
Edit Discussion settings
Modify Permalinks structure
Pick a theme
Customize your theme
Write down CSS info
Change title format
Edit blogroll
Edit the About page
Add some categories
Edit the example post for testing
Install plugins
Check blog and test plugins
Create a favicon.ico
Create a shortcut to the Dashboard / setup WordPress client
Start posting

My own post-install checklist is similar but a simpler version.

Since mine is a single author blog, I do not need to add users and change membership permissions. If you have a multiple authors blog, I highly recommend you to install the Role Manager plugin. It powers up WordPress user management.

I am using a great blogging client, therefore I don’t bother to disable the visual rich editor. I will change the time different because server in US but I blog in Malaysia. I leave the date and time format as default.

For Discussion Options, I untick both two boxes under “E-mail me whenever:”. I don’t want to be flooded by emails.