- Change the Default Admin Username and Password (This is must do as soon as you login after installation)
- Change Permalink as per your requirement. Mostly people use /%post name%/
- Change the theme. if not millions then thousands of themes are available over the internet for free. Just do it man !
- As you start blogging, you would need to add Categories and Blog rolls. Its important that you choose your category wisely, so work on it for some time.
- Spam is the biggest virus for Websites/Blogs so make sure your blog is accompanied with at least 2-3 Spam Busters. I use askimet and Wp-Spamfree.
- Your visitors may want to look at the sitemap so install Google Sitemap and Create a sitemap link for your visitors as well. I use Google XML Sitemaps and Dagon Design Sitemap Generator.
- Backing up your Blog should be on your top priority. You don’t want to lose your posts just because of any reason.
- Get your visitors an option to get the posts delivered in their mailboxes. Add your RSS feed to Feedburner
- If you want to track your Blog’s activities then Activate your Analytics. Its worth the hassle, believe me. I am using Ultimate Google Analytics.
- If you started the blog for discussion purpose then you want to allow every visitor to comment on your post without registering. Make sure this setting is correct as people don’t want to spend time in registering on your website. One who is really interested in registering will find his own way to do that.
- If you are concerned about your blog’s visibility in Search engines then make sure you have Ping service configured. Here is a list of some RPC servers. You can also search for the same in Google.
- Once you are In, you would want to install some plug-ins and themes. Installing them is not a tedious job but uploading them is. Make sure you have One Click Plug-in Updater installed in your Blog. Its the most useful WordPress plug-in I have ever come across.
- There is something called, Hacker. There are good one and some bad asses as well. The bad ass Hackers just want to do bad things. And leaving your host directories not properly CMOD is like inviting these guys to attack on your Blog. I suggest you install WP Security Scan, it takes care of most of the open vulnerabilities of your Blog and lets you know how to fix them.
- Before I come to the last point let me crack a joke first. I am basically from Software Development Background. NO.. NO.. I am not the developer. I am the one who is around developer. I am in to IT Applications, taking care of all Compliance related activities. Like security and UI (sometimes) a little bit of PM. I was just testing a build of one of our applications that we were suppose to deliver to our customers. Suddenly, page crashed and what I saw was really funny. It was an error page and the label was “Error happens”. It obviously was a typo but It was so funny that we all laughed after looking at it. So all I want to say is that you might see in your Analytics report that there are so many error pages being served by your Blog. So you want to maximize and optimize your Error 404 Page. I created a small tutorial around it. Perfect WordPress Error 404 Page.
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I’ve done most of these, but will add a couple more of the suggested plugins! Nice article… thanks! (found via Twitter)
Thank God, Finally someone tells me that I am not using twitter for nothing.
Hello,
Everything dynamic and very positively!
Eremeeff