Blog Setup Guide Part 1 - What You Will Need
Saturday, November 17th, 2007I’ve set up a guide for installing ands setting up new wordpress blogs and thought I’d share it with you here. I’m going to do it in parts because it’s a long document.
So here is Part 1 - What you will need to setup your wordpress blog.
1. FTP Access. Full access, not partial permissions or temp folder access.
2. Cpanel Access if possible. If you do not have Cpanel or Cpanel with fantastico, then you have to manually install it. I prefer manual install, but doing it through Fantastico is ok as long as it has the latest vcersion of wordpress. You can check what the latest version is at wordpress.org
3. 3 – 4 themes you like so you can choose the one that works the best from the choices you make. Sometimes a theme does not work the way you want it to. Sometimes a theme will not allow you to create categories for instance. By choosing several you like and uploading them to the wp-content/themes directory, you can choose each one and test them before you decide which will be the theme you are going to use.
4. Plugins that you will be using. The standard plugins we use are DDAddSig, Google Analytics Plugin, Adsense Deluxe if you will be using Adsense or Yahoo Publisher code, Wordpress Backup Plugin, Akismet, and AddThis. There are literally hundreds of plugins available for free all over the net, so choose a few you will want to use and upload them to the wp-content/plugins directory. They can be activated through the admin plugins area of wordpress once you have it installed.
5. You will need an ftp client to be able to upload everything of course.
6. You will need an html editor if you plan to edit any of the php files that come with your theme.
If you have everything I listed here, you are ready to install wordpress and your theme and plugins. In part 2 I will talk in detail about how to setup your wordpress blog.
