If you arrive at a blog via one of it’s category pages, or navigate to a category page while browsing a blog, you’ll be met with a number of posts relating to a particular topic. However it may not be completely clear exactly what that topic is, without having to skim read a few of the posts. Single words and short phrases used as category links in your sidebar navigation might not be descriptive enough to properly sum up the content of the categories they link to.

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Change password

Change password in profile

Change permalink structure

Using custom structure tags: to %category%/%postname%

Sharpen URLs

Burn feed in Feedburner

Burn feed at Feedburner.

Enable Pro options and Smart Feed.

Install Feedsmith plugin

Download plugn from http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart

Upload FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php to plugin directory.

Make wp-content files editable (change permissions to 777)

paste HTML and CSS into the php files, tidy any style and html trhat need tidying

set up google analytics and paste code before body end tag

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Install Comments Author Highlight plugin

Install the comments author highlight plugin.

style the comments and comments form

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Create pages and link up design based navigation links

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Install contact form plugin and create contact form on contact page

Contact Form 7 seems to work nicely and allows multiple forms.

Install and configure SEO Title Tag plugin

Download plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-title-tag/

Upload the whole directory to plugins folder.

Replace default title tags content with

< ?php if (function_exists('seo_title_tag')) { seo_title_tag(); } else { bloginfo('name'); wp_title();} ?>

Set up google webmaster tools, upload file and verify

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Create robots.txt file and instruct all bots not to crawl archives, wp-admin, includes, plugins, cache, themes, trackback or cgi-bin

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install Google XML site map generator and generate site map. Add to Webmaster tools

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Create a Favicon

Upload your 16 x 16 pixel favicon to: tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon. Generate your favicon.

Back up your blog

It’s important to make regular back-ups of your blogs database, incase it all gets lost. This is emmensely easy using the Back Up WordPress Plugin.

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