15+ Things to do After Installing WordPress

Presentation at the August WordPress Meetup in Southwest Florida on the 15+ things you should do after installing WordPress. A walk-through of numerous general site settings, content format and settings, as well as useful plugins to install and configure on a new WordPress website.

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1. 15+ Things You Should DO After Installing WordPress WordPress Meetup Southwest Florida Downtown Fort Myers @wpswfl Presented by Guy Cicinelli
2. Hello! I am Guy Cicinelli I love building websites with WordPress. You can find me at @GuyCicinelli
3. Get Your Ducks in a Row Be consistent. Use a checklist.
4. Organize Your Tasks Into a Flow That Works For You. 1 General 2 Content 3 Plugins
5. General Site Settings Let’s start with the essentials 1.
6. 1. Site Title & Tagline 2. WordPress & Site URLs 3. Email Address* 4. Timezone & Date Format
7. 5. Permalinks
8. 6. Discussion & Comments
9. Content Settings Homepage format, categories, menu, and posts 2.
10. 7. Delete Sample Content (Posts, Pages, Themes*) 8. Create a New Page Called: Home (or Homepage) 9. Create a New Page Called: Blog (or News, Recipes) 10. Set Homepage Format ~ Static or Latest Posts
11. 11. Create a New Category 12. Change the Default Category to the New Category You Just Created
12. 13. Setup the Menu
13. 14. Set Media Sizes
14. Plugins A few basic plugins to provide security, backups, SEO, and more. 3.
15. Security: ▪ Wordfence ▪ Sucuri ▪ iThemes Security 15. Secure Your Website Anti-Spam: ▪ Akismet ▪ Anti-Spam Bee
16. ▪ Updraft Plus ▪ BackWPup ▪ VaultPress (Jetpack) ▪ BackupBuddy 16. Backup Your Website
17. 17. Setup SEO Install an SEO plugin like Yoast SEO to help your content get found on the Internet
18. 18. Setup Google Analytics 19. Create a Sitemap ▪ Yoast SEO ▪ Google XML Sitemap
19. 20. Caching for Speed ▪ WP Super Cache ▪ WP Total Cache ▪ WP Rocket
20. Thanks! Any questions? You can find me at ▪ @GuyCicinelli ▪ gcicinelli@gmail.com