Step 4: Configure Your Blog

If you haven’t installed WordPress yet, go to Step 2 to use my easy WordPress install guide.

Now that you know the basics of your blog, we can get into some more of the details. WordPress is an amazingly powerful tool that allows you to build your blog in just about any way you can imagine.

You’re probably thinking that your blog design looks pretty boring now, right? Not to worry, I will show you how to change the your design and layout in this step, along with a bunch of other cool tips and tricks for personalizing your blog.

 Basic Blog Design

Creating Menus

 Customizing Your Blog Design

 Adding Plugins

 Changing Your User Details

 Changing Your URLs

 Other Helpful Tutorials

If you would still like to make some additional changes to your blog before writing, here are some of my most popular tutorials:

1. How to add custom logos or images
2. How to get readers to subscribe to your blog
3. How to see how many people are visiting your blog
4. How to automatically share your new blog posts on Facebook and Twitter
5. How to link to other sites from your blog
6. How to change text size and color
7. How to make your blog private
8. The top 7 free WordPress plugins

What next?

After completing this step you should have a functioning and attractive blog. Again, you can always go back and make additional changes later. There is no need to have everything perfect right away.

Now let’s get to the fun part – writing your blog!


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