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.