What did I learn today ?

So you’ve installed WordPress- what next? -I think you should thoroughly test it especially if you have set it up for some one else to use. You want to be sure that on hand over everything is working as you expect.

Therefore based on the idea of actually testing which I know is a foreign concept to some below is my list of the essential WordPress post install testing tasks based on Ross Mckillops -WordPress complete post install checklist

1. Edit your blog title, add email address
2. If you let WordPress generate your password then now is a good time to change it to something strong that you will remember
3. Add users if others will be contributing
4. Change the tagline
5. Set a date and time format
6. Modify Reading and Writing settings
7. Edit Discussion settings
8. Edit permalink settings
9. Add a test post and check that you can upload images and other multimedia elements- You may need to modify the folder permissions to allow WordPress to upload images.
10. Edit or add a page
11. Add some categories
12. Edit blogroll
13. Install plugins (Next post will have a plugin essentials list)
14. Check blog and test plugins
15. Pick a theme
16. upload your theme
17. Customize your theme
18. Check blog and test plugins again

Ok so this post wasn’t strictly about only post install checking but more about what to do next after you’ve install WordPress and depending on how you installed it (manually or through your control panel) the tasks will be slightly different but you get the idea.

(Remeber test, test, test and then test some more

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