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Okay, well we’ve got a domain. We’ve got hosting. We’ve chosen Wordpress, because it’s the best. Now for the setup phase.

Installing Wordpress itself is pretty simple. You download the file, change wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, and then open it up in notepad. Then make a database using cpanel or similar, make a username, put them together (this is very self explainitory), and put the information into the wp-config.php file. Then upload the whole lot to your website, and navigate to it. The install process does the rest.

However, once you’ve got your blog installed, there are some things you definitely should do.

The first of those things is to setup permalinks, because a blog with ?p=44 links looks ugly, to be frank. There is a complete tutorial on how to do this here.

Next up, you should do your about page. Don’t worry about the theme for a moment, that’s in the next post. Your about page should contain information on what subject the blog is written on, and if it’s a personal blog, maybe a bit about you. Everything counts.

Now setup some categories. This can be done while posting, but I think it’s better to have pre-defined categories to work with, its simpler. Head over to manage >> categories and add a couple here and there, depending on what you feel like.

And that’s it. You’ve now got a nice blog with nice links, categories and an about page. Next up, a theme.

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