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Essential Settings for Your WordPress Site_ A Beginner's Guide
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Jan 26, 2024
This tutorial video serves as a beginner's guide to the essential settings for a WordPress website. Covering fundamental configurations, the video provides clear and concise instructions on key settings that every WordPress user should be familiar with. From site identity and general settings to permalinks and discussion settings, viewers will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to optimize their WordPress site for performance, security, and user experience. Whether you're new to WordPress or looking to ensure your site is properly configured, this guide offers practical insights to help users navigate and implement the essential settings for a successful and well-functioning WordPress website.
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What's up everyone
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Welcome to Key2 Blogging and in this video I will give you a brief overview of WordPress
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dashboard and how you can set up your basic settings after installing a fresh WordPress website
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So as you can see, this is how the dashboard looks like and when I open the front end
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it will look like this and it will just add a Hello World Post like this and there
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is no menu here and there is no footer or nothing fancy here
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So let's check how you can customize different settings after installing the WordPress website
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So first of all, you can dismiss this and you can add different tab and you can manage it just
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by drag and drop the tab. And here you can also disable some of them by clicking on the screen option here and you
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can disable if you don't want like this. So let me just disable activity and in this way I can clean up my WordPress dashboard
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Now you will see this option updates. So when you click on updates it will show the update information
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So currently I am using the version 6.0 and you can also reinstall version 6.0 if you have
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any problem during the workflow and you can also see different options like post, media, pages, comments
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So let's start with the settings. So just click on settings here and as you can see here
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you will see this option site title so you can change your site name so you can basically
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add any text so i have already added the site title here and you can also add tagline so it will
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show as a second title like this so let me just show you so when i search for key to blogging
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on google and as you can see there is a tagline like learn blogging and as your tips
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So this is the tagline and this is the title of my website
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So in this way you can add site title and tagline and you will see this option WordPress address
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URL and site address. And here you can change your email address by just entering the new email address and then
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it will send a confirmation email to that email address and after that you can change your
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email address from here. And you can also enable membership on your website and
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you can select new user role so by default keep it as subscribers and here you can
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change your language so if you are running a Hindi block then you can select Hindi or
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if you are running any other language then you can select your site language from here
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and you can also set your time zone so in my case let me just select UTC 530
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and here you can change the date format and the time format and you can also set
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the week start on. So let's keep all the settings and let's go to the writing settings
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Under general setting you will see this option writing. So just click on here and here
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you can set default post category. So as we have not created any category. So it is not showing
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any category from here and you can also set default post format. So if you are running a video
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block or audio block then you can select audio video or images like that. But I will
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will keep it as standard and that is mail server so there is nothing to do it from here
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So let's click on Reading. Now you will see this option your homepage display
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So by default it will show all the latest post in the home page but if you want to add a custom
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home page then you can select a static page and here you can select that custom home page so
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that it will act as a home page instead of a simple page
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you can also select a post page like if you want to create a blog page then you can select
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that option so let me just simply create two pages from here to show you how it works so
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let me just click on add new from here and let me just make the title as home and let me just
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add any sample element from here so let add the row layout and let me just add it here and let click an image and let me just
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upload an image from here. We have uploaded the image and here you can design your home page whatever you like and let
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me just select the permalink to home and let me just publish this
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Now let's go back, now let's click a block page. So I will click on add new here and I will type like block and I will just hit publish
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Okay, now you have created two page, one is home and another one is block so let's go to
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settings and I will click on reading here and here you can select a static page
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So let's select the home page to home and select the page to home and select the page. post page to block and here you can show how many number of posts it will show on block page
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and you can also show the feed so let's click on save changes now let's go to the home
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page and let's refresh this page and as you can see as we have created a custom home page
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and selected the home page like this then it will show that page instead of showing a bunch of
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recent post. So here you can also discourage charge engine visibility. So if you don't want to show your blog post on Google, then you can do it
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So it is basically helpful if you are just building your website and don't want to make it
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public until you have finished the editing, then you can enable this option
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So let's click on discussion tab here. And here you will manage your comment sections and here you can see this option like attempt
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to notify any block link to from the post or here you can see comment author must fill
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out name and email address and here you can enable different comment options from here
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So you can easily understand what are the settings here or if you want to prevent some spam
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comments then you can enter the keys like if you don't want to add any email address or
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add a particular image or add a particular text in the comment section then you can
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just enter the URL or enter the email address here and will be automatically detected and
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turn that comment to a truss or you can say spam sections. And you can also manage the
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avatar section from here. So avatar basically the profile picture of the commenter. So you can
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select this from here. Now let's click on media tab. And here you can see the thumbnail size
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crop thumbnail to exact dimensions. So if you don't want to crop it, then you can uncheck it from here
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So suppose I want the thumbnail size to like I am using 1920 into 1080p format
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And I will click on crop then it will whenever I upload an image then it will crop that
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image to 1920 into 1080 and show it as a thumbnail. So if you can set your custom thumbnail width and hides from here and you can click on
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save changes. Now let's click on formalink settings and this is the most important settings
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So by default in some cases it is set to plain so you need to change it to a post name
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And if you just migrated your blogger website to WordPress then I have already done a video
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on how to redirect your old URL to the new WordPress post URL
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So you can do it by watching this video. So let's click on save changes from here and let's click on privacy
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And here you can select your privacy policy page. So let's click on use this page as privacy policy
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Now let's go to the pages section from here and as you can see, you will see different
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pages of your website and if you want to create a About task page
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So let's create it. And I can simply type like About and you can add about your website here so you can just add paragraphs and write about your website so let me just click on settings from here and I will click
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on page here and make sure to change your URL shock if it is if it is not good so I
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think URL slog is good here so let's publish this now let's go back
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and now let's click on contactors page and let's check the URLs log and let's click on
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publish here so you can easily edit this page by clicking on this edit button so let's
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create menu first so that it will show in the menu sections so for this I
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I will go to the appearance here and I will just click on theme here
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And I will install a theme first. So suppose I want to install the cadence theme
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So cadence theme is a very good theme that you can use in WordPress and I have already made
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a dedicated playlist on Cadence. How you can customize Cadence theme on your WordPress website
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So you can watch the Cadence Theme tutorial from here. So let me just install the Cadence Theme from here. here
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Okay, now the theme is installed. We need to activate this theme so that it will show in the front end
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And that's the beauty of WordPress that you can install multiple themes and activate it according
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to your need. So it is asking to install the cadence starter templates so that you can import different demo content
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to your website. So let's install this starter template from here. Now you can delete all other themes if you don't
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want that theme so let's finish the installing of starters template first okay now
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the starter template is installed so let me just go to the theme section again and I
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can delete some of the themes so just click on theme here and you can see this
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option delete so just click on delete here and let's delete this theme from here
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Okay, we have deleted all other themes and install the cadence theme and then here you will
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see this option like customize your theme and here you will see this option menu
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So let's click on menu first and let me just refresh this page how it looks in the front
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end and as you can see this is how the cadence theme looks like
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So let's create a menu so I can say like header menu
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So you can add your own name here and let's create menu first and you can also select
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as primary and let's create menu. Now you can add different items to your menus
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So I want to add home page, blog page, about page and contact page to my menu
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So I will select all and I will click on add to menu
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And as you can see all the pages are added in the menus. You can also add a custom post in the menu and you can also add custom links
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So suppose I want to add a newsletter page like this and I will add the link here and I will
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click on add to menu. So in this way you can add custom links in your menu and you can also add categories to
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your menus and you can also make it like drop down. So let me just rearrange this menu like this
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and here you can add it like drop down menu like this so let's adjust this and let me just
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click on save changes now let me just refresh this page and as you can see the
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menu is now added and you can also customize your home page so let me just go to the pages section and let click on all pages and let click on edit here and let click on settings here and you can disable the title so that it will not
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show the home page in the sections. So let's click on update here
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Now let's click on refresh and as you can see the title is now gone
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So you can follow the playlist to create your custom home page. So I have made around three different tutorials on how to build a custom home page using the
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Cadence theme. So let's go back. Now let's check how you can create categories in your WordPress website
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So for this you need to go to the post and you will see this option category
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So just click on here and here you can create your own custom categories
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So suppose I want to add different category. So suppose I want to add a category like Android's and I can set the Slok as Android
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And you can also select parent category and you can also add a brief description about your categories
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So let's click on add new category. Now let's click on technology
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Let me just add the slog like technology and let's click on add new category
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Now let's add a category on like smartphone like this and I will set this log like smartphone
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and I will click on add new category and you can also keep the Android category under the
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smartphone category. So if you want to edit it, just click on edit here and here you can select the parent category smartphone
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So you can add smartphone as a parent category and add different category like Android, iOS
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Windows as a subcategory to that parent category. So as we have created the category, now you can add that category to your menus
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So you can also create your custom tags here by clicking on name, slog, and description and
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click on add new tags. So let's go to the appearance sections and let's give me a brief overview about your customizer
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So this is how the theme customizer looks like in most of the theme and there are some common
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settings that you will get in every themes and you will get some different settings in different
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themes like you will get the settings like wizard so that you can manage your sidebar and
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here you can also see the same setting that you have set in the settings and here you can see the
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additional CSS so if you want to add some additional CSS then you can put that CSS code here
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so I have already made a video on how to customize the cadence theme so you can watch this video
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to learn more about it. Now we have selected all the basic settings
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After that you need to install some SEO plugins and image optimizations plugin and you need
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to install some backup plugins. So I have already made a video on how to install RankMath SEO plugins
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So it is one of the most trusted and most popular SEO plugins that you can use in your WordPress
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website and if you want to optimize your images then you can use plugins like short pixels
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and make sure to set a backup system so that you will be able to backup your website and
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once you have any problem then you can easily restore it from your backup files
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So in this way you can install various themes to make your tasks easier
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This is the complete overview of WordPress dashboard and if you have any doubt regarding
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this then you can ask me in the comment section and if you found this video helpful then
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Thank you