I have now completed writing and publishing this new personal webiste. How did I do it. Here is a step by step guide to how I set up my site
WORDPRESS PLUGINS
- Its a wordpress blog using the “Thesis” theme
- The blog has been imported from my old blogger blog using the “blogger importer” plugin and then the “categories to tags convertor importer“
- Installed wptouch to add iphone support
- “Blog in a blog” to allow for selected entries (by category) to appear at the bottom of each page
- Installed all in one SEO
- Google analyticator for using to take the google analytics code
- WordPress Database backup (to schedule a back up my wordpress site)
- Admin Management Xtended (just makes it easier to manage posts)
- Contact form 7 (my contact form on this site))
- Akismet
WORDPRESS SETUP
- Changed default username and password
- Changed default permalink structure to a more SEO friendly format /%postname%/
- In “Reading settings” changed to a static page and moved post page to be my page called blog
- Input my api key from my wordpress.org account to intialize Akisment
BLOGGER REDIRECT
I followed the steps laid down here
DOMAIN CHANGE
I had to modify the
WordPress address (URL) to paulayling.me
Site address (URL) to paulayling.me