Configuring WordPress

You're ready to configure WordPress and add your unique website content.

Now What?


Open the email that has this information

• URL to your new website
  (We'll use ABCTampaBay.com for this tutorial...)
• Admin UserID
• Admin Password

===== Log into site using ABCInc.com/wp-admin =====

In the dashboard, open all installed plugins. Install the Wordfence Security Plugin (By WordFence)

• Change WordFence settings (left Menu)
• Add admin Email address (uncheck newsletter)
• "No Thanks" to Premium API code
• WordFence|General WordFence Options: Check Automatically Update Word fence
• WordFence|General WordFence Options: Check Hide WordPress version
• WordFence|General WordFence Options: Confirm admin email address for notifications
• Save Wordfence Changes (Green Button Upper Right Corner)
• Advance Options: Login Security Options
• Changed lockouts from 20 to 2 attempts
• Enable "Immediately lock out invalid usernames"
• Add admin and the domain names to "Immediately block the IP of users who try to sign in as these usernames"
• Save Wordfence Advance settings

Remove Akismit and Hello Dolley

Change recommended WordPress settings:

• In Settings|General: Change Time Zone to "New York"
• In Settings|General: Confirm that "Anyone can register" is unchecked
• Save Changes w/Green button
• In Pages|Add New: Add page titled "Home." Add ipsum conent.
• Publish Page
• In Settings|Reading:: Change "Your home page displays" to a static page.
• In Settings|Reading:: Change "For each article in a feed, show" from Full text to Summary
• In Settings|Reading:: Check the box "Discourage search engines from indexing this site"
• Save Changes
• In Settings|Discussion: Check [_] Users must be registered and logged in to comment for "Other comment settings."
• Save Changes
• In Settings|Permalinks: Change to anything other than default (i.e. example.com/?p=123)
• Save Changes

Install the following plug-ins:

• Theme File Duplicator by John Sschwab
• Contact Form 7  by Takayuki Miyoshi
• Child Themify by John Bloch, then activate
• Only if you want SEO: Yoast SEO by Team Yoast
• If you installed Yoast, then configure:
• In SEO|General|Features: Make sure they are all turned on
• In SEO|General|WebMaster Tools: Install Webmaster Verification codes
• In SEO|Search Console|Settings: Get Google Authorization Code
• Set up accounts (WinningWP Video opens in a new tab):
• Google.com/Webmasters and 
• Analytics.Google.com (You may need to install the plugin "Google Analytics for Wordpress by Monsterinsights" to authenticate the account

Opened the themes section in the dashboard

• Install the GeneratePress Theme
• Create a GeneratePress-child Theme
• Install the Weaver Xtreme Theme
• Create a Child weaver-xtreme-child Theme

Go to Installed Plugins

• Deactivate the child theme
• Install the 3 recommended Weaver Xtreme plug-ins

Go back to cPanel and uploaded the child theme snapshot.png image from my PC
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Change the front page from a blog to a static page...

Let The Fun Begin!!!

...finally, it's time to begin building the website:

===== Post Build: Log into site using ABCInc.com/wp-admin =====

When you site is built:

• In Settings|Reading:: Uncheck the box "Discourage search engines from indexing this site"