Installing WordPress

These are the steps I used to set up the site and install Wordpress
for Gail & Steven Scott's Service Station Salon website...

Required Preparation: 

They had already registered two domains at ABCInc-Domains.com, and I added a domain hosting account there. They needed only single-domain Linux hosting (about $60/year) even though they will use both domain names. The 3-domain and multiple-domain choices are overkill except in unusual or special sites, and that doesn't apply here.

ABCInc-Domains uses cPanel for your site administration dashboard.

Within cPanel:

• Created email forwarders, including one for wp.admin@theservicestationsalon.com
  (I prefer to use forwarders instead of actual mail accounts.)
• Find Preferences, then Update Contact Information
  (I changed to my email address for right now.)
• Found and clicked on the Wordpress icon in the Softaculous section
  

Wordpress installation:

• Left protocol at http://
• Chose the default domain (TheServiceStationSalon.com)
• Changed the directory from "wp" to nothing (removed "wp" from form) so that Wordpress would install in the root directory

Site Settings:

• Changed Site Name from My Blog to The Service Station Solon
• Changed Site Description to Clearwater, Florida (will change late)
• Did not enable multi-site ~ left the block unchecked

Admin Account

• Changed Admin Username to something other than "admin"
• Copied the suggested admin password to notepad
• Changed the email admin address to a forwarder created during the prep

Advanced Options

• Opened the "+" symbol
• Database name and table prefix is OK
• Enabled:
• Auto Upgrade
• Auto Upgrade Wordpress Plugins
• Auto Upgrade Wordpress Themes
• Automated backups once a week
• Backup rotation set to 2

Clicked on the INSTALL button.... !
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Logged into site domain.com/wp-admin

In the dashboard, opened all installed plugins
Removed Akismit and Hello Dolley

Installed the following plug-ins:

• Child Themify by John Bolch
• Theme File Duplicator by John Sschwab
• Contact Form 7  by Takayuki Miyoshi
• Wordfence Security by Wordfence, then changed settings
• Basic Options: Automatically Update Word fence
• Basic Options: Entered admin email address for notifications (Rick+WPWordFence)
• Saved Wordfence Basic settings
• Advance Options: Login Security Options
• Changed lockouts from 20 to 2 attempts
• Enable "Immediately lock out invalid usernames"
• Add admin and the domain names ServiceStationSalon and TheServiceStationSalon to "Immediately block the IP of users who try to sign in as these usernames"
• Saved Wordfence Advance settings

Opened the themes section in the dashboard

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• Installed the Weaver Xtreme Theme
• Created a Child weaver-xtreme-child Theme
• Activated the child theme
• Installed the 3 recommended Weaver Xtreme plug-ins
• Went back to cPanel and uploaded the child theme snapshot.png image from my PC

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Changed the front page from a blog to a static page...

Let The Fun Begin!!!

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