{"id":17964,"date":"2018-04-13T18:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T18:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themerally.com\/?p=17964"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:09:05","slug":"things-to-do-after-installing-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themerally.com\/things-to-do-after-installing-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Checklist To Do After Installing WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the most popular Content Management System is WordPress. More than 25% sites on the web are made by WordPress.\u00a0<\/span>If you have already installed WordPress on your server, you have done a very good job. But do not think that everything is done. Installing WordPress on your server is just the starting, you have to do few more tasks after the installation of WordPress. In this blog post, we are going to focus on 9 things to do after installing WordPress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whenever we start a new WordPress blog site, we have to follow a few important checklists as mentioned in the first paragraph.\u00a0<\/span>This checklist contains almost everything to give a very strong foundation to a WordPress blog site. OK, let’s read out the 9 things to do after installing WordPress and make a checklist to check if your site already followed those or not!<\/span><\/p>\n Before taking steps, you have to perfectly configure some basic settings from your WordPress dashboard. <\/span><\/p>\n Here are those things.<\/span><\/p>\n These settings will surely optimize your blog site for better performance and better structure as well.<\/span><\/p>\n After installing WordPress, you will be given or assigned with one of the default themes. Those are not so bad for starting a personal blog. But if you are really serious about blogging or you want to create a business site, you have to change your WordPress theme from default.<\/span><\/p>\n Starting from tech blog to eCommerce site, WordPress has themes for almost every kind of blog site or websites. You can also get yourself started with a free or premium theme. Free themes are good as well as preferable just because they are free. If you want to build a professional looking WordPress blog site or website, you have to invest some amount of money to buy a premium theme.<\/span><\/p>\n There are many premium WordPress theme providers. I guess if you are looking for handpicked design focused on real people, not just a template designed without keeping the regular non-tech user’s experience in mind, you can check our themes(Theme Rally Themes<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After getting the right WordPress theme for your WordPress blog site, it\u2019s now time to change your default theme by your newly purchased theme. It is very easy. All you need to do is, just install the new theme. Anyway, if you have purchased from us, you will have all help you need to set it up on your website. We even set up a theme with demo data for free!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A favicon is a small icon on the browser tab or bookmark. And a logo is the small design that represents your website or blog site around the web. It\u2019s very important to have a unique favicon and a logo to increase your brand’s awareness.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can easily create a favicon by using Photoshop, Illustrator or other tools as well. If you don\u2019t have skills on designing, you can also use online tools like <\/span>Favicon.cc<\/span><\/a> or <\/span>X-Icon Editor<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Once you have prepared the favicon for your website or blog site, go to your WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Site Icon. And then upload your icon.<\/span><\/p>\n When it comes to design a logo, you can do it by yourself if you have graphics designing skills. Otherwise, you need to hire someone who can create logo to create a logo for you.<\/span><\/p>\n Fiverr<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is one of the best sites for hiring excellent and talented graphic designers. You can also hire a designer from TechnoCrews Pro Talent<\/a>s<\/span>\u00a0as well as from <\/span>Upwork<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Freelancer<\/span><\/a> as well.<\/span><\/p>\n However, you can use online tools to create a logo as well.<\/span><\/p>\n A very good and interesting thing about WordPress is, you can do almost everything in WordPress by simply using a simple plugin.<\/span><\/p>\n There are so many free and premium WordPress plugins almost everywhere. Some of them are common and very essential for every kind of WordPress websites. Here are some important plugins you should install or at least try.<\/span><\/p>\n Having biographical informations as well as profile picture helps your readers in a great deal to know more about you as well as to connect with you.<\/span><\/p>\n To update your user profile or customize your information, go to WordPress Dashboard > Users > Your Profile. Then simply enter your name, contact info, biographical info, and so on. You have to create <\/span>Gravatar<\/span><\/a> account to show your profile picture.<\/span><\/p>\n You can also use several author box plugin like <\/span>Fancier Author Box<\/span><\/a> or <\/span>Fanciest Author Box<\/span><\/a> to make your admin profile more attractive as well.<\/span><\/p>\n Google Analytics and Search Console are the most effective and important must-have tools for site owners. <\/span>Google Analytics<\/span><\/a> helps you by tracking your visitors and <\/span>Search Console<\/span><\/a> helps you to notice your website performance in Google Search engine. The good thing is both are free.<\/span><\/p>\n You just have to connect your website with Google Analytics and the Search Console to track your website performance.<\/span><\/p>\n Almost all of the WordPress themes are integrated with a widget-ready sidebar. It is usually placed on the right side or left-hand side of the website page. You can also add Social Media widget, Recent Posts widget, Facebook Like Box widget, Alexa Ranking Widget and so on, on your sidebar.<\/span><\/p>\n WordPress has several built-in widgets. And the maximum of the premium WordPress themes also adds additional widgets to your WordPress website.<\/span><\/p>\n To add a widget to your sidebar, simply go to WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets. Then drag a widget (that you want to add to your site) from \u201cAvailable Widgets\u201d to \u201cSidebar.\u201d Click on widget and configure the widget settings.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can simply install more of the widgets from <\/span>WordPress Plugin Directory<\/span><\/a> or <\/span>CodeCanyon<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n While you can simply add a new category when you are writing a post, I will strongly recommend you to add all categories before publishing posts. It will help you in a great way to plan your posts properly.<\/span><\/p>\n To add these categories, simply go to WordPress Dashboard > Posts > Categories. Then enter your category name, slug (URL) and description. And then click on \u201cAdd New Category\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Like every other website, WordPress sites need some important pages. You should build up these types pages before publishing any kind of posts. These pages vary from niche to niche or post to post.<\/span><\/p>\n There are three important pages that you should keep immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n So these are the major tasks that you should do after installing WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have faced any problem with these things, no worries. Please let us know your problem or questions via comment. We will try our best to answer your queries. We are a team of WP Lovers who earn their bread and butter through it. So help is on the way for sure.<\/span><\/p>\n If this article seems useful to you, Please share.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the most popular Content Management System is WordPress. More than 25% sites on the web are made by WordPress.\u00a0If you have already installed WordPress on your server, you have done a very good job. But do not think that everything is done. Installing WordPress on your server is just the starting, you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":19873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"\nThings To Do After Installing WordPress<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Configure Essential Settings<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Install an Awesome Theme<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Add Favicon and Logo<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Install Essential Plugins<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Update Your User Profile<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Connect Your Site With Google Analytics and Search Console<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Add Widgets to Sidebar<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Add New Categories<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Create Essential Pages<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Over to You<\/b><\/h3>\n