Setting up WordPress correctly is one of the first tasks you will have to face when creating your business website.
Beginnings , for almost anything in life, are difficult. And, of course, finding the perfect WordPress configuration for your website was not going to be an exception.
That's why I've created this article: to help you in these first steps of your journey with WordPress as a companion. So that configuring WordPress doesn't become a nightmare for you or an insurmountable first barrier that prevents you from creating the website that your business needs and deserves.
If you prefer the video format , I leave you one below in which I explain how to configure WordPress from scratch and step by step .
And if reading is more your thing, keep reading this article in which I will explain everything that this task entails in great detail.
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Before you set up WordPress, read this
WordPress Native Initial Settings
General settings
Writing Settings
Reading settings
Comment settings
Media
Permanent links
Set a “Maintenance Mode” page
Installing your theme on WordPress
Installing basic plugins
Before you set up WordPress, read this
There's one thing you need to be clear about before you start setting up WordPress.
It's normal to feel a little overwhelmed when you start cyprus telegram data journey. A new world opens up before you with all the complications that this entails :
Many terms and acronyms that sound like Mandarin Chinese to you. So many that you would really appreciate a WordPress dictionary that explained them all.
Many new tools to discover and learn to use .
A wealth of technical knowledge and configuration options to consider to ensure your business website works as it should.
You chose WordPress because it has been recommended to you, because it is used on 43.3% of the world's websites, because of its power, its flexibility, its endless possibilities.
But now that you have it installed on your hosting, you look closely at the administration panel… and you are more lost than Frodo trying to enter Mordor.
Getting started with WordPress
Well, it's time to go through the Black Gate to Mount Doom and throw the ring into the lava, little hobbit. I'll be your guide on this journey.
If you want, you can call me Gollum (or "my treasure" if you grow fond of me).
Below I will teach you how to take your first steps on this platform so that you know how to set up your blog on WordPress without a doubt.
What's more, this is the WordPress configuration that I myself set up when creating any new project, whether for myself or for my clients.
Let's get started!
WordPress Native Initial Settings
The first thing you are going to do is look for the “Settings” tab/option in the left sidebar of your WordPress.
As you can see, a drop-down menu opens with several options (General, Writing, Reading, etc.). These are the first options that we are going to tweak.
Movement is demonstrated by walking, so let's look closely at them one by one. We'll start quickly with the first one...