Essential Tweak for Turning Default WordPress Install to a Website or a Blog

Customise Default WordPress Install

WordPress is probably the most popular self hosted blog software online today (hosted version is also very popular). You can easily turn any web hosting space with MySQL and PHP to a fully functional website within a few minutes with the help of WordPress. Setting up a website or a blog this way can save you hundreds of pounds off the cost of having a website created for you by a web designer.
Many webmaster have created websites exactly the way I described above, one thing that put most visitors to such site off are lazy webmasters who do not bother to customise WordPress after install or take the time to tweak and fine tune it.  The list below show some of the items that can be quickly tweak or customise to turn a default WordPress install to a good looking, SEO optimised and customised website or blog.

1. Change the default skin – This is a must, there are hundreds of free and premium wordpress skins ou there, there is not excuse for keeping the default WordPress skin after install.
2. Remove the default about us page – It is amazing the number of webmasters who cannot even bother to add their own contents on the default “About” page on wordpress. Even if you do not want to write and about us page, delete the default WordPress about text.
3. In the tagline, change “This is just another wordpress to something relating to your contents.
4. Remove all the links on the blogroll and replace it with links you like or no link at all.
5. Set the time zone to your location
6. To make it more search engine friendly, change the permalink.

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