Before starting on “WordPress for beginners” every WordPress beginners must know

about WordPress. What is WordPress?

WordPress is an open source web builder or CMS (Content management system) through

which you can build you website or blog. Maximum of website on internet are running

in WordPress. Google also mostly prefer Ad- Sense for those websites which are using

WordPress.

These are important things of WordPress for beginners which they must know about.

These setting will improve so many things like your website performance, traffic, SEO,

security, etc.

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How to setup WordPress blog-

First step of WordPress for beginners is to know about how to setup WordPress blog or site.

They must know about how to install WordPress in cPanel.

First you have to Install WordPress in your hosting cPanel (control panel). It is very easy

to install WordPress in cPanel.

• Log in your cPanel.
• Go to Fantastico Delux

On left side you have to click on WordPress. Then on new installation & after this you have

to Fill username and password (leave all other) for your website and click on finish. Always

use alphanumeric password.

WordPress is installed on your hosting cPanel. Now open your WordPress dashboard e.g.

yourdomain.com/wp-admin

Enter your WordPress username and password which you used while installing WordPress.

Things to do after installing WordPress-

Before publishing any post you need to set up your blog. While setting up WordPress these

all things help you. Maximum of bloggers forget these setting in their beginning.

•  First of all Change your WordPress theme. Go to Appearance- theme- install theme.

Search according to your preference. If you don’t know more about theme then I prefer you

to use “mystique” WordPress theme, you can change it whenever you want to.

• Now go to settings-

General-

Site Title- You can remove .com from your site name & if you want to add a tagline for your

website then add a tagline here. Save changes

Reading-

Blog pages show at most- Here you can set a number of posts you want to show on your page

or per page.

Privacy-

Site Visibility- Select “Allow search engines to index this site”.

Permalinks-

The URL of your post is known as Permalinks. It is very easy to change permalink setting. Permalink

setting is your First step to SEO or Keyword Optimizations. You have to change your permalink setting

in starting of your website.

Choose permalinks as post name. yourdomain.com/sample-post/

•  Plugins-

WordPress Plugins are that software which will change your website from low to high level. Plugins

will also change your website overall looks or makes it attractive to your visitors. It increase your

website overall performance...

Basic Plugins which you have to install are-

• All in one SEO Pack-

Optimize your keywords for posts and increase your website traffic.

• Google XML Sitemaps-

Helps to create a sitemap of your website.

•  WP-reCAPTCHA-

Prevent your blog from spam.

Also use security plugins to protect your website from hacking. Security plugins secure your website

from hacking and spamming. These all setting will help beginners to learning WordPress. To be familiar

to it, every WordPress beginner should know about these things.

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