In my previous Wordpress tutorial I've told you how to use the Wordpress dashboard. Now that you are familiar with the Wordpress back-end area, I'll show you how to configure your Wordpress website the right way.
The Wordpress CMS is a very, very powerful and incredibly complex environment that will allow you to configure and customize every single small detail or option.
Some of them are smaller tweaking tricks and they won't make a big difference at the beginning of your journey (but, they can make huge differences later!), others are essential and mandatory configuration tasks that must be performed every time when you have installed a new Wordpress website.
The full list is almost endless ... However, I've made a small collection containing the most useful and most important settings and configuration steps that will help you to properly and efficiently configure your newly installed Wordpress website.
Here they are ...
1. Changing the admin password
If you have completed the setup process without defining a strong admin password, now you NEED TO change your admin password.
Select "Users" in the site administration section of your admin menu, hover your mouse over the only existing user (root) and click the "Edit" link. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the "Generate Password" button. If you want, you can replace the generated password with a custom password and when you're done, just hit the "Update Profile" button:
I have some questions:
The password that WA gives you is necessary to change it, when? In the section of permanent links the last 2 are:
-Name of the post
-Personalized Structure
What is the difference between the two?
If my site has categories, pages and post, which would you choose and why?
Thanks for your help.
Claudio
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Thanks for your time!
So ...
1. As a first step you probably want to create your own personalized, easy-to-rember password. And of course, you should change it every single time when you detect any suspicious activity, for example failed login attempts
2. The name of the post will give you the standard post name based on the slug. The personalized structure will allow you to add other variables top, for example date, etc
3.1 If you are using WordPress as a blog, then you will end up using posts for majority of your site’s content. Posts are content entries listed in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. Due to their reverse chronological order, your posts are meant to be timely.
3.2 Pages are meant to be static “one-off” type content such as your about page, privacy policy, legal disclaimers, etc. While the WordPress database stores the published date of the page, pages are timeless entities.
3.3 Categories are meant for broad grouping of your posts. Think of these as general topics or the table of contents for your site. Categories are there to help identify what your blog is really about. It is to assist readers finding the right type of content on your site. Categories are hierarchical, so you can sub-categories.
Hopefully I've managed to answer your questions.
Zed
If I have "categories" in my site What is the type of permanent link that you would choose?
I´m working with Personalize Structure is OK for you?
Hopefully they will :)
Zed
Thank you for taking time and create this training.
I believe this will be useful to our new members.
:)Joe
If you've learned at least one thing, I achieved my goal :)
Yes, those blurry images usually are related to the pre-defined image sizes created by Wordpress.
By default, WordPress offers predetermined image sizes:
Thumbnail size (150px square);
Medium size (maximum 300px width and height);
Large size (maximum 1024px width and height);
Full size (full/original image size you uploaded).
If you are using a given (different) image size for your posts and that image size can't be proportionally resized to these default values, the result is a blurred image.
And before you ask :) You can define the exact size of your images in many ways when you are creating your content, but there are situations where you can't (at least without altering the source code) define the image sizes. One example: when a related post plugin displays thumbnails ...
Zed
Much appreciated
Jennifer
Keep up the very good work and help you are doing here
Jennifer
