{"id":148,"date":"2018-02-14T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T03:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tenthplanet.in\/?p=148"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:43:19","slug":"things-to-do-after-installing-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/wordpress\/things-to-do-after-installing-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to do After Installing WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now you finished installing WordPress, but now what? You could start writing your first post\u2026 or you could enhance the default WordPress installation: make it more secure, make it faster and let it rank higher in the Google search engine results.<\/p>\n

1. Change the permalinks<\/h2>\n

We advise you to change the permalinks because this is important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).<\/p>\n

Out of the box WordPress generates urls with numbers:<\/p>\n

If you turn on Permalinks, it\u2019s possible to generate urls with words.<\/p>\n

In the url of the second example you can read what the page is about (and so can search engines!). You\u2019ll find the Permalinks Settings page through \u201cSettings\u201d > \u201cPermalinks\u201d in the left menu. Here you can choose how the url of your blog or website will look like:<\/p>\n

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2. Add a second user with editor rights<\/h2>\n

For security reasons it\u2019s important to add a second user with editor rights. Use this new user to write your content. Use your administrator account only for managing your blog: installing \/ updating plugins, themes,\u2026<\/p>\n

Choose \u201cUsers\u201d > \u201cAdd new\u201d in the left menu. You\u2019ll see following screen:<\/p>\n

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In this screen you have to fill in the following fields:<\/p>\n

Username (required): the username of the new user
\nE-mail (required): the e-mail address of the new user
\nFirst Name: fill in the user\u2019s first name
\nLast Name: fill in the user\u2019s last name
\nWebsite: here you can fill in the url of the user\u2019s website
\nPassword (twice, required): choose a strong password for your new user
\nSend Password: Do you want to send the password to your user? (I always leave this option unchecked)
\nRole: select the editor-role for this user
\nAfter you filled in all the fields, click the \u201cAdd New User\u201d button to create the new user.<\/p>\n

3. Secure and backup your site<\/h2>\n

3.1 Protect your blog against attacks and hackers<\/h3>\n

First of all, protect your website against possible attacks and hackers. There are a couple of plugins to do this, but we usually use Better WP Security. Better WP Security offers very good security, and it\u2019s a safe choice for most websites.<\/p>\n

3.2 Backup your blog<\/h3>\n

A good backup system is vital for EVERY site. Imagine your site gets attacked and you don\u2019t have a backup\u2026<\/p>\n

There are a couple of great free backup plugins, for example BackWPup<\/p>\n

IMPORTANT! Don\u2019t forget to backup to another location then your web hosting space. If you\u2019re saving your backup on the same place as your site, you could also loose your backup if your site gets attacked \/ deleted. Most plugins have the option to mail the backup (not recommended because of the large backup files) or to save the backup at Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 or another cloud storage service (recommended solution). Some backup services (like VaultPress) save the backup in the cloud by default.<\/p>\n

3.3 Protect your blog against spam comments<\/h3>\n

Once your blog is getting popular, you\u2019ll get more and more spam comments. I don\u2019t know how about you, but after a while this drove me crazy. So you installed Akismet. Akismet is another great service by Automattic (the company behind WordPress). Akismet is free for personal usage and cheap for professional usage.<\/p>\n

Another option is a comment service like Disqus or LiveFyre. This also helps against spam comments, but not as good as Akismet.<\/p>\n

4. Set up SEO<\/h2>\n

What if you write awesome content but nobody reads its? That\u2019s really frustrating, believe me! Today, Google is one of the most important sources of traffic to your site. That\u2019s why it\u2019s important to optimize your site for Google. Luckily there is a great plugin called WordPress SEO by Yoast which does almost all the hard work for you!<\/p>\n

This plugin analyzes the content you write and will advise you how to optimize it for Google. I wrote a tutorial for beginners that will guide you through the most important parts and functions of this plugin.<\/p>\n

5. Make your site faster<\/h2>\n

A last important aspect of WordPress you need to optimize, is the site speed. By default, shared hosting is rather slow. Another problem is, when your site will suddenly receive a lot of visitors, it could go down (and you don\u2019t want that!).<\/p>\n

Also here, there is a simple and free solution: caching.<\/p>\n

There are 2 great plugins: W3 Total Cache (which is better but more difficult to configure) and WP Super Cache (in combination with WP Minify). The combination of WP Super Cache and WP Minify is almost as good as W3 Total Cache and it\u2019s much easier to install and configure. If you don\u2019t have good technical knowledge, then you should install the last solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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