Setting up a WordPress site - a detailed guide

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WordPress site setup guide. How to set up WordPress.

WordPress setup! Today I will talk about competent setting up a WordPress site. The article will touch on the main parameters that should be changed after installing this engine. We will analyze, as always, in great detail. Be attentive to the content of the article, there are a lot of images. For convenience, all the necessary functions are numbered according to the sequence of actions. I think this presentation will be more convenient and informative for you. And the WordPress setup will go through the light.

If you have not installed this engine yet, then I recommend that you first read the available guide “How to install WordPress”, the guide is located in the same section. If everything is “excellent” for you, then you can safely go directly to the manual for this CMS. Go!

The content of the article:

Setting up a Wordpress site

First we need to go through authorization in the admin panel. Further down the left side of the screen is a large menu. It is in it that you will find the “Settings” tab we need. We will work with her. Click on it and you will see a drop down menu.

Setting up a WordPress site - settings. How to set up WordPress.

General settings

General settings. How to set up WordPress.
This section contains the main site configurations! Click on the "General" field. After the transition, you will see the appropriate window with the necessary functions. It contains the main configurations for the competent display of your resource on the network. Let's take a closer look at this part:
1. Name of the site Site name - in it you need to specify the main name of your resource. Exactly the one with which you want to be displayed on the network. And which should correspond to the theme of your project. And also to lead the semantic component of the brand, etc.

2. Short description Brief Description - Defines a description of your project. Try to describe your project in more detail, while the description should be clear and readable. Follow the banal rules of Seo, your description should include at least the main number of keywords. After all, it will also be displayed on the network and promote your resource.

3. Wordpress Addresses (URL) and Project Addresses (URL) - they determine the display of your address on the Internet. If, for example, you installed a security certificate on a domain, then your site addresses and engine settings will be as follows: https://your_site if not, then http://your_site. As you can see there is a difference! Be careful and careful! If the address is entered incorrectly in these fields with subsequent saving. You can get a fatal error that will be extremely difficult to fix in future work.
To put it bluntly, your project will simply break. To fix this problem, you will have to change all (URL) addresses in the database of your site. This will significantly slow down the promotion of your resource, as it will take a lot of time.

4. E-mail address - everything is simple here, in this field you need to enter the address of your work mailbox.

5. Membership and new user role - these functions manage the registration of users on your site. In the initial setup, it is better not to change them. In the future, you yourself can change them at your discretion. If you need to grant free registration permission to users, check the “Anyone can register” option accordingly. In this case, the role of the new registered user will be “Subscriber”. A subscriber can only read articles and write comments. But it cannot change the content of your project.

6. Site language - if you have a Russian-language site, then indicate Russian. Another language, indicate your own.

7. Date and time zone Date and time zone - they determine the display of time and date in accordance with the region in which you live. The date format value will be displayed in your articles. To change the time zone, you must select the time zone corresponding to your region from the drop-down menu. Below you can set date format display add-ons.

Date and time in the admin panel.

Publication settings

Posting options in WordPress.

Section of publications of your project and distribution by E-mail. Let's take a closer look at this window:

1. Main heading — the default is “no rubric”. Accordingly, all your publications for which you have not specified a rubric will be displayed in the “Uncategorized” heading. It doesn't look very nice, but there is a change option. In the left menu of the screen, click on the “Recordings” tab. Then in the drop-down menu section “Categories”, it is in it that you can change the name of the default category. For example, on “SEO promotion” like on my site. Accordingly, the rubric will contain all your entries.

2. Basic post format - is responsible for displaying your posts on the main page of your project. You can try different formats to display your post in the main feed. For example: “Note” or “Quote”, etc. The options depend on your preferences and the content of your content.

3. Block editor and classic editor - an innovation that did not work for everyone, the block editor is not very convenient. Therefore, if you have the classic editor plugin installed. In this case, you can switch between editors and let your users switch editors.

4. Publishing via E-mail — distribution of new articles to subscribers of your resource. To do this, you must have your own mail server, these add-ons are by default. Your task is to specify only the rubric for publications by mail.

Note: Please configure the mail server parameters carefully, for example: “DNS and Ports”. Otherwise, your mailing lists may be placed in the spam folder on the user's side. In this case, there may be consequences in the form of blacklisting your site for some resources. This can seriously affect the authority of your site. Be careful!

5. Category for publication by mail - here at your discretion. You can set exactly the category of the site that you want to publish by mail. In simple words, mailing will be carried out only from the specified category.

6. WordPress update services - here we indicate the priority peeling services for our site. Others do not recommend, there is a risk of violating the security of the site. Peel only on trusted update services.

Note: This tab is responsible for your site's signals, to speed up the indexing of published content on the site. In simple terms, when you publish a new post, WordPress sends a signal to the specified update services. This way, search engines are more likely to learn about new content on your site.

Here are the most needed ones:

  1. http://rpc.pingomatic.com
  2. http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2
  3. http://blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2

See image below:

Peeling services in WordPress.

Reading settings

Reading options. How to set up a site on WordPress.

The functionality of this section also implies the display of content on your site. Let's take a closer look at this window:

Display on the main page of the site

1. Your latest entries - display on the main page of your project (feed), the latest publications of your records. Clarification: Only new publications are displayed, modified publications remain in their places.

2. Static Page — displaying publications of your project on static pages. If you do not want to publish your entries on the main page, this option will be extremely useful to you.

For example: You can easily create a separate page called "Blog" - it will be a static page. After in the drop-down menu of the option “Page of records”, you specify this option of a static page.

As a result, all your publications will be displayed only on it. This is convenient if you need to indicate on the main page exactly a large amount of information about your company, etc. Accordingly, the “Main Page” add-on presupposes the choice of a static page for the main area of the site.

For example: “About the project” is a static page with a detailed description of the project. This option is perfect for companies, etc.

Blog display

3. Displaying blog posts and RSS feeds - this is the number of records on one page and, accordingly, for displaying each individual record.
For example: you can specify 5-10 publications per page (or more) - these add-ons depend on what exactly you are planning. The second option is responsible for the presentation of each individual entry (publication) “Full text” and “Announcement”.

  •  “Full text” - will present your article in full and display it in the main feed of your site. This option is not very beautiful and can mislead the user.
  • “Announcement” is the output of a small amount of the text of the publication, so this option will be more user-friendly. These are my recommendations, but the choice is yours. Perhaps your projects involve displaying full articles. Therefore, you yourself have the right to set the parameters in this section at your discretion.

4. Visibility for search engines  Visibility for search engines is an extremely important option in this settings section, as it is responsible for indexing a resource on the web. If you leave this checkbox checked, then search robots will not be able to crawl and index your site. This option is responsible for hard prohibition of indexing. Be extremely careful and uncheck this add-on. Finally, save your settings.
We continue to set up the site. Next, we will touch on features such as discussion, media files, and permalinks. And also we will touch on an equally important part as the site menu. Since it is part of the site that needs to be configured. Let's omit the excess water and proceed directly to continue setting up the site.

Discussion settings

WordPress discussion settings.

A very large section with a variety of settings options. Responsible for comments and alerts, etc. Let's look at this section in more detail:

Setting up WordPress comments for an article

1. Alert blogs specified in the article. Better don't check the box. This setting will attempt to notify the blog that was listed in your article. Subject to the presence of a clear address (link). This will attract the attention of third-party resources to your site (maybe). Thus, a third-party blog can place a counter link to your project. Pay attention, the parameter additionally loads the site!

2. Opposite Blog Alert setting, gives permission to notify you. Provided that there is a link to your project on a third-party resource.

3. Permission to comment, a mandatory option. Check the box to enable commenting on articles and start a discussion.

Other settings for comments and emails

4. Indication of E-mail when writing a comment, check the box if you think it is necessary. Personally, in my opinion, it is necessary to require e-mail, for greater security and protection from spam.

5. Permission to comment. Check the box at your discretion. Let me explain! This option is responsible for the permission to publish a comment on your articles, subject to authorization on your site. If the user is registered and authorized on your site, then, accordingly, he is allowed to leave comments. If not, then this user will not be able to leave comments.

6. Automatically close the discussion - the parameter allows you to set the time period after which the discussion for the entry will be closed. Mark as you please.

7. Show cookies checkbox - it is better to check this option, it is convenient and remembers the visitor's data. In simple words, when a site visitor re-writes a comment, he will not need to fill out the comment form again.

8. Display comments and pagination. Also set the option to your liking. Tree attachments in comments, for example, can be increased from 5 to 7. Pagination of comments. It is extremely useful under the condition of a huge number of comments.

9. Send me an email when - this will automatically notify you by mail. Under the conditions of a new comment or checking a suspicious comment. I recommend leaving these settings at their defaults.

9. Before comment appears - the add-on determines the appearance of comments after the user leaves a review. For example: “Comment must be manually approved” - the corresponding comment will appear in the publication only after your approval. “The author must have previously approved comments” - the appearance of such a review depends on the history of a particular user. If you previously approved user comments. Subsequent comments by this user will be displayed in the article immediately without additional checks.

Comment moderation

Settings - Moderation of comments.
Defines security settings for posting and filtering user comments.

1. Filtering comments if there are two or more links in one comment. This setting defines spam filters. If the user's comment contains more than two links to third-party resources. Accordingly, this comment will be filtered as spam, and you will be notified to check this comment.

2. Settings area for setting restrictions on certain words, in this window you specify the conditions. Words in the presence of which, the comment will be filtered into spam.

3. Blacklist - spam filter. The window contains information about the user to be blocked and blacklisted. Such information includes: IP address, Nickname, E-mail. If the conditions are met, the user will be denied a review.

4. Avatars - these are the settings for displaying "Avatars" when discussing and posting reviews. You can leave these settings at their default values.

Avatars and Gravatars in WordPress.

Media settings

The smallest section. Manages the display of all media files on your site. Your task is to set the image display sizes you need. Thumbnails, for example, will be shown at the beginning of the publication. This is convenient and presentable, especially when displaying publications in the main feed.

Other formats affect the display of images in articles by default. This is handy if you keep the images one size when writing your post. Accordingly, when inserting an image into a record, the system will adjust the image size to the formats you set.

Media settings on a WordPress site.

Site permalinks

Functions determine the desired display of addresses (links) of your publications on the web. Consider this window: see image below

Site permalinks - setting.

1. These functions determine the formats for displaying publication addresses. As shown in the image, the Article Title link will be more useful than the other display links. This format is more readable and will be well received by users.

2. Prefixes for categories and tags - an optional parameter, you can leave it at your discretion. Description and appearance of these fields, you can see in the image.

WordPress main menu customization

Menu customization in wordpress.

We turn to the instructions for the main menu of our resource. To do this, consider the corresponding window:

1. In the left area of the window in the general menu, you must click on the “Appearance” tab and select the “Menu” section.

2. The line defines the name, you can fill in this field with any name, for example “Menu1” or as in the picture.

3. These options expose the desired page in the menu. As you can see from the image of the arrow (back and forth). Means the possibility of capturing the desired object and transferring it to the menu window. The menu can include the following objects: Static pages, posts, arbitrary links.

4. At the top of the settings window, there are additional add-ons. They are a kind of partition extensions. You can access this section by clicking the “Screen Settings” button in the upper right corner. In them, you can select additional elements for implementation in the menu of your project.

5. After transferring the relevant elements to this area. Carefully consider the arranged elements, for example, you can create a tree-like menu. To do this, use the mouse and move the elements in the working window of the section. Accordingly, after completing all your actions, you will only have to click on the “Create Menu” button. And everything is ready!

6. After creating the menu, it will be displayed in this line. Also, it will display all the menus you create in the future. In it, you can select the necessary menu of the site for editing and changing.

Conclusion

WordPress setup completed. I would like to note that this instruction concerns only the basic WordPress settings. In the following reviews and guides, we will take a detailed look at installing plugins, themes, and customizing the CNC site. We will also touch on the possible settings for most themes. The first post on this topic is “How to Install a Theme in WordPress”. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with it, the instruction will look identical to this one.

I'm wrapping up on this one, as this guide turned out to be obviously very large. I hope you enjoy reading my posts. I'm trying for you! And I wish you successful creation of your projects.

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  1. Евгений says:

    An up-to-date manual, everything is very detailed and clearly explained and illustrated. Thank you for your work, it helped.

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