Frank Mitsui

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How to set up a Wordpress blog after installing

Just follow the 15 easy steps below.

  • Step 1: FTP to my account and upload WordPress.
  • Step 2: Login to CPanel and create the mySQL database.
  • Step 3: Upload my plugins
  • Step 4: Upload my themes
  • Step 5: Edit the WordPress config file with my database info.
  • Step 6: Install WordPress
  • Step 7: Login to WordPress
  • Step 8: Activate my plugins
  • Step 9: Choose my theme
  • Step 10: Delete the first post
  • Step 11: FTP and change permissions on .htaccess file
  • Step 12: Set the WordPress permalink structure
  • Step 13: Change default category name
  • Step 14: Update ping list
  • Step 15: Update other various settings

Overall, this took about 10 – 20 minutes. And for me, 8 minutes this time.

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