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Install and configure WordPress

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What I would like to do first of all is show you how you install and configure WordPress. Now if you've got Fantastico, it will look like this. Some Word posts now have something called simple script, but again, it's a very simple process. We are looking down here, and we go to Fantastico deluxe. And we install it. It's very simple to do. You don't need any particular technical skills or anything else in order to be able to do this.

So you see here we have installation already. And you can see if you want to upgrade to the latest version, you just click that button. But we are going to do a new installation. So we click on WordPress here. Then we click here. It's not entirely obvious. But you can click here on new installation and install a new one.

So I am going to install the subdirectory of test. I'll have a normal admin, a simple password. Then you can set your nickname, admin nickname, so it can be anything you want. This is email address. Then you put your site name in here. Doesn't matter too much what you put here, as you can change these later on.

But those are what you put in. Then you click install WordPress. You click finish installation. And then it's done. That's it. That's all you need to do. And you've installed WordPress. So now if I open this window here, if I open that in a new tab, you can see here it's all installed. So we just type in our ID and password and that way we can log in to WordPress.

OK, so this is an installed version of WordPress. Over here you've got your control panels. And here you can see what you have on your dashboard. So simple configuration. It's very, very quick and easy. You start with posts. You trash the original posts, you don't need that one there. I get rid of that. You go to categories as well. You are going to change the name of this.

Just click it there and change it to something relevant to your keywords, to your niche. And you may want to create additional categories. These aren't necessary. But some people find particularly if you are touting multiple keywords, it's worth having more than one category based on each keyword.

Now I have gone to links as well. Click there. And then delete all of the links that are there. You will also want to edit the link categories as well. Again, change it from blog roll to something like resources or something similar. So you just put in resources. And then the same down here as well. Resources in lower case.

You may want to create more than one category depending again on how many links you are planning on having. But I would always recommend a link to whatever you are promoting. And possibly one or two other ones to authority sites in the niche. And then in the pages, edit this, and change it to something relevant again to niche.

This is the about you page, you can change the title, you can change all of this as well. So, that's all we need to do here. We don't need to do anything on the comments.

If we go to appearance now, this is where you install your theme. Add new theme here. And you can search for new themes. Install them and so on. So you can uploads ones, you can search for ones here or you can just go to Google and do a search there.

You can use the widgets to add widgets onto it. Again, it depends on how you're laying your site out as to what you use here. plug-ins we'll look at in a minute. Author-users we can ignore. Same with tools. We don't need to worry too much about that at the moment.

Now, under settings, you've got some changes that you need to make here. Again, this is where you change your site name, and tag line. You can let anyone register. And just save the changes when you've done it.

If we next go to writing, under writing again, you can change all these. I would recommend ignoring those. I would also recommend just deleting out this information here just to be on the safe side.

If you want to put in any updated services in there, feel free to do so. All that does is it will ping them when there is a new post. Then we go to reading. OK, again, I would make a few changes here.

I would pick it to show a static page on the front page. I want control over what they see. The only page I've created at the moment is about. I will create just single page. I'll set this as my home page so that people come there and they see a good amount of information when they get there, otherwise, they can see the latest post. It may not be what you want them to see.

Blog pages show up most. I always set that to one. That way it looks more like a website, less like a blog. Then we save changes.

OK, now under discussion over here, our next settings, again, most of these you can leave as they are. The only one change is this one. Always check this box. It just means that you're not going to get any spam comments at all, and then save the changes down at the bottom here.

If you don't do that, then people can get comments through. What some spammers do is they'll make one or two reasonable comments and then when they realize they're allowed to write any comments and they don't need to be approved, they'll start spamming.

The next one we need to go to is permalinks. Now, on the permalinks site, this is how your website looks in the search engines. This is the default up here, but your domain name.com/category/ and then a post ID, that makes no sense at all. It's terrible for SEO. Now what people may want to do is, I recommend that you always change it.

Now, the easiest way to do this is to do it like that. OK? I did it to the post name. You can put the category in as well. If you're using categories and your category is keyword-related, you could put percent category percent in here as well. I tend to do quite small size myself, so just the post name is enough, and then you save the changes.

And that's all the settings you need to do. It's not complex, it's not difficult. And as you can see, it takes just a couple of minutes to do. It's really, really simple.