Before you start posting on your blog and going live, you need to do all the basic setting. To do the setting, you can go through each link under the settings, namely, General, Writing, Reading, etc. You will find more links if you have any plugins which needs to do some custom settings.
Setting up the Permalink Structure
You will find the Permalink structure below the Settings Link. This is something very important and needs to be set before you go online. Check out this page for more information on WordPress Permalinks. Its very important to select the best URL structure for your website. I use the short URL as mentioned in the post.
You have your blog ready with the design you selected. Now the biggest task is in front of you – Content. Content is the most important part of your blog / website. You can create static pages and blog posts.
- Creating Categories – Decide upon the categories that you would be using for your posts. You can even create new ones in future. You can input the category name, description (optional) and the category page slug(optional)
- Creating Static Pages – You need to write some standard pages like the privacy policy, contact us, About us and whatever you think is a must for your website. You will find a separate link for posts are pages, so be sure that you use the right link to create a new page
- Creating a Post – Its almost similar creating a post and a page in WordPress, but it has some difference like the posts are displayed on the front page.
- Deciding your Front Page – You can decide if your would like to show the latest posts on your front page or a static page on your home page. This can be done under the reading setting as shown in the image below
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So get used to the settings of your blog. Spend some time on your blog admin panel and learn trying different settings. If you are allowing user registration, set up the role or the newly registered users, allowing comments, moderation, etc are things that you need to decide before you start. You can change these settings anytime, so nothing much to worry now.
Thats all in this chapter. Hope you have got some idea about your blogging tool and have your future plans ready. I will be talking about content development in my next chapter. So stay Tuned
