What You Should Do After Installing WordPress?

Wordpress installation is a very simple process and it's known as The Famous 5 Minute Installation.

Next process or check list you need to take in order once you install Wordpress as listed below.

Update Your User Profile:
Change the admin password first to something you can remember instead of remembering that crazy ramdonly generated password.
Manage your user settings via the Users panel, and you can add any additional blog authors here.

Change Your Blog Tagline:
By default, WordPress inserts *Just another WordPress Blog* as the tagline. A tagline is a short and memorable branding message that can be expressed as a subtitle.  It can help define who the blog is for, and what’s in it for them if they stay and read the content.

So go change it and should be stating you blog purpose, provoking thought, asking a question - anything but *Just another WordPress Blog*.
Be creative, this is one of the first things your visitors see.

Permalink Structure:
By default WordPress will display a link structure something like this for your posts: YourDomain.com/?p=101 which means absolutely nothing to you, your visitors or Google.

Your site’s permalinks are like the street address for your site’s web pages. They help both people and robots understand your site’s structure and navigate its contents.\

Navigate to Settings > Permalinks and you will see several options for configuring your permalinks:

I use a custom structure that let's me benefit from the category name (as a part of the URL) and the Post Name. It looks like this: /%category%/%postname%/

Discussion Settings

This is where you decide if you want to let other bloggers know that you’ve linked to them in your post. A default setting simply means that it’s what you want to happen every time. In the first checked box below, keep in mind that it says, “Attempt”…(You won’t always be notified, but they don’t do too bad a job.) Also, remember, as it says below, that these can be changed by the page or post. Just make sure that whatever you set your default at, it’s what you want to do most of the time.

Comment author must fill out name and e-mail - Check this box as a way to force spammers to do a bit of extra work. In reality, the name and e-mail address are not verified in any way prior to the comment being submitted. Most legitimate commenters are more than willing to fill out a name and e-mail address.

The Comment Blacklist box is where I spend my time. I include a list of words that I really don't want on my site such as viagra, penis, enlarge, and the names of several popular drugs. I have nothing against the 60-something year old man who wants to improve performance, my site is just not the place to promote that. I also include words of a sexual nature, including rape, porn, xxx, sex, virgin, lesbian, gay, etc. Trust me, this helps.

Activate (Turn On) Akismet
To prevent or determine whether contents of the comments in your Wordpress blog is spam or not, the Akismet plugin can be use to filter any comment an stop the such spam contents to be displayed on the blog.
Akismet is one of the very best *anti-spam* plugins and comes preinstalled with WordPress.

WordPress requires an API key, something you can only get by registering on the WordPress.com site (profile only, no blogs required). Once you register, they will send an email with your API key. Insert that in the appropriate place in your Dashboard. (Once you activate Akismet, it will be at the top of every Dashboard page until you activate it).

Setup Categories
To quickly tell readers what a blog post is about, you must have at least setup one categories.
It is helpful to have at least an idea of the categories you will use most often. Once you have created your most often used category, change the default category to this.

Setup Ping Services
By default, WordPress added one ping server, list of sites to “ping” when you make a new post.  It’s kind of like telling someone on the shoulder and saying “Hey, I have something new for you to check it out.”

To find out what/who you are pinging now, just go into your admin area and, under “Settings” find “Writing Settings.”  At the bottom of that page you will see “Update Services” and a short list of default places you are pinging when you post to your blog.

You may copy the ping servers list here.

Add Your RSS Feed To Feedburner
To allow other people to monitor  your blog or get updated, Feedburner is such an excellent feed content delivery and tracking system you may don't want want to miss out.

Burn your feed with Feedburner, and then either install a Feed plugin that will force all your feeds to your Feedburner account URL, or update the theme header.php file to add the following line:

My recommendation guide to install Feedburner are here.

There are many more plugin or setting guide you should consider after installing your Wordpress blog. This is only the very basic things I do to every Wordpress blog I create.