Wordpress:Step by Step for beginners, part 8

The other Wordpress, step by step for beginners, tutorials are here

In this tutorial we're going to do the Settings on your Wordpress website.

Most of the settings are pretty easy, and straightforward, with very little that needs special mention.

For starters, go to your dashboard, and down the left hand side, at the bottom, or very close to the bottom, find, and click on the settings tab.

Once open, it will look something like this:

The first thing you may need help with is permalinks. click on permalinks. On the Permalimk page, go down to where it says Custom Structure. In the block type: /%postname%/

Exactly like that. That is the structure we use, and it works great. For alternatives, go to the Wordpress.org Support site, and type "permalink structure" into the search bar.

With that out of the way, work your way through the settings menu, one item at a time. A few things need to be mentioned now. On the general settings page, the two fields that refer to your website address, and your blog address (they both have (URL) after them), leave that alone. Now, today, tomorrow, forever. It will cost you to have us fix it.

The final point at this stage, at 'Before a comment appears', make sure that the only ticked box is the one that says: 'An administrator must always approve the comment '. Before allowing comments to appear automatically, you will need to build a database of undesireable IP's.

So there you go. Take your time over your settings. (Almost) Nothing you change now will break your website, and you can (almost) always go back and fix it. The almosts refer to the things we have told you not to touch.

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