Guide To Blogging

Starting A New WordPress Blog

When it comes to blogging many people become almost addicted to it and soon find themselves having (or wanting to have) multiple blogs. Because they are so easy to set up it’s not hard to have a new blog up and running within minutes, often the hardest thing to do is to come up with a name and your first post.

Once you’ve used a WordPress blog you quickly decide what works for you and your blog’s topic/theme etc and what doesn’t so when you’re ready to start a new blog odds are you’ll use much the same thing again (the themes may vary, but most plugins etc will probably stay the same) It’s at this point that you realise just how handy it can be to keep a checklist and folders of your most commonly used themes/plugins etc.

While for the most part it’s pretty standard when it comes to setting up a WordPress blog there are a few changes you may want to make and there’s nothing worse than establishing a blog, writing a few posts only to realise you forgot to activate or change a default setting etc.

By keeping your favourite/most used plugins in a separate folder on your desktop it becomes habit to upload them at the same time you’re uploading your new blog or theme etc.

I also keep a separate notepad entry that covers all the main things I change: the permalink structure, ping list, default this is a WordPress Blog sub heading, 404 page etc.

By doing it this way as soon as I set up a new blog I make sure I activate plugins and change default settings right from the start and don’t find myself suddenly wondering why a certain thing isn’t working the way it should and spending hours trying to figure it out only to discover I missed the simple step of uploading X plugin or widget.

By getting into a routine like this setting up a new WordPress blog becomes even easier and you can quickly move onto the fun stuff like coming up with new blog posts.