Thanks to the Download Squad for this great starter list of post install Wordpress To Do List.
Depending on how you’ve installed WordPress (manually or by a “one-click-install” that many hosting providers offer) - one of the very last installation steps is to choose a blog name and provide an email address. That’s where this checklist begins. Click on a heading below to get started!
- 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
I will be going through this Wordpress post install checklist one by one in greater detail at a later date
Read the entire post: Wordpress Post Install Checklist
from Rob
@ Blog Building Basics
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