If you've been following my articles on how to set up a WordPress blog, you'll now be ready to adjust a few settings, make your permalinks 'pretty' and have a general clean up. The WordPress dashboard can appear a little bit daunting when you first look inside, but you'll soon get the hang of it.
The first thing you need to do is to log into WordPress and go to your Dashboard. We're now going to tidy up your 'general settings' so scroll down the list on your left until you come to the word 'settings' and click on it - this opens you're 'general settings' page.
Here you need to enter your blog title, i.e. the name of your blog (mine is just 'Louise Marsden') and a tag line (what your blog is about), replace the default email with your current email address, fill in the rest as you require and click 'save changes'.
Go back to the 'settings' section left hand side bar and this time you need to scroll down a little look for the heading 'permalinks'.
[Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, as well as categories and other lists of blog postings. A permalink is what another people will use to link to your article, or how you might send a link to your post in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change - hence permalink.]
Click on the heading 'Permalinks' and this will take you to the 'Permalinks Settings' page.
If you take a look at these permalinks you will notice that by default they look a little 'untidy' and 'unreadable' i.e.
http: // yourblogname/?p=123
The search engines don't like them like this and it's not so easy for other people to see what they're about either so what you want is to make them look like this:
http: //yourblogname/yourpostname
Next go down to the button that says 'custom structure' - click on this. Now all you want in the box next to 'custom structure' is this:
/%postname%/
(exactly as I've typed it including the forward slash each side) so either take any text out of the box except this, (if there's already text in the box) or just enter it exactly as above - click 'save changes' - you'll now have 'Pretty Permalinks'.
You're finished with the 'settings' section for now so head over to the left hand side again and scroll up to the word 'Posts' - click on 'Edit Posts' - this opens your 'Edit Posts' page, here you'll notice that WordPress has kindly put the heading ' Hello World' as a welcome on your front page.
(If you haven't looked at your front page already, you can do this by just clicking on your blog title at the very top left of your dashboard)
All you need to do here is to click on 'trash' and that's it - your basic clean up is done - you're now all set to make your first 'blog post'.
The first thing you need to do is to log into WordPress and go to your Dashboard. We're now going to tidy up your 'general settings' so scroll down the list on your left until you come to the word 'settings' and click on it - this opens you're 'general settings' page.
Here you need to enter your blog title, i.e. the name of your blog (mine is just 'Louise Marsden') and a tag line (what your blog is about), replace the default email with your current email address, fill in the rest as you require and click 'save changes'.
Go back to the 'settings' section left hand side bar and this time you need to scroll down a little look for the heading 'permalinks'.
[Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, as well as categories and other lists of blog postings. A permalink is what another people will use to link to your article, or how you might send a link to your post in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change - hence permalink.]
Click on the heading 'Permalinks' and this will take you to the 'Permalinks Settings' page.
If you take a look at these permalinks you will notice that by default they look a little 'untidy' and 'unreadable' i.e.
http: // yourblogname/?p=123
The search engines don't like them like this and it's not so easy for other people to see what they're about either so what you want is to make them look like this:
http: //yourblogname/yourpostname
Next go down to the button that says 'custom structure' - click on this. Now all you want in the box next to 'custom structure' is this:
/%postname%/
(exactly as I've typed it including the forward slash each side) so either take any text out of the box except this, (if there's already text in the box) or just enter it exactly as above - click 'save changes' - you'll now have 'Pretty Permalinks'.
You're finished with the 'settings' section for now so head over to the left hand side again and scroll up to the word 'Posts' - click on 'Edit Posts' - this opens your 'Edit Posts' page, here you'll notice that WordPress has kindly put the heading ' Hello World' as a welcome on your front page.
(If you haven't looked at your front page already, you can do this by just clicking on your blog title at the very top left of your dashboard)
All you need to do here is to click on 'trash' and that's it - your basic clean up is done - you're now all set to make your first 'blog post'.
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