The first thing I do after a wordpress install:
1. I change the permalinks structure to “/%category%/%postname%/”. I don’t use category pages, I make pages in place of the categories. I don’t like how it looks when you use normal category templates, So I create custom queries on the pages that call the category.
2. I change where images are uploaded. I like it when images are in the images folder. Just another cosmetic issue for me.
3. This is the first time where I did not do this. But then I create a theme in the theme directory and start working on making the new theme. I am not a designer, so this time I went into Add New Themes and Ii found a theme that I liked.
4. Next I usually add the functions that I use in almost every theme that I make into the functions.php file in the theme directory. I add get_the_image which gets the first image from a post and returns the url. I then add the content shortener that shortens the content to so many letters.
5. I get and install TimThumb, when the website works with a lot of images and resizing of images I use timthumb to resize the images o the fly for me. Bonus: Has built in cache.
6. I install these plugins: wp-cache, wordpress stats, sitemap generator and akismet.
7. I then Edit the about page as it is the most important part of a website and then delete the hello world. But I am going to be keeping the Hello World on this one so it reminds me to post some more.
8. Then I make my first post and hope for the best!
Welcome to WordPress Tips, My new website where I post tips and tricks for wordpress that I do in my daily life of working with wordpress. I just hope that it will help others and I am going to use this so I am able to go back and see how I did things.
