Recommended settings for beginners

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Recommended settings for beginners

WordPress is popular software that allows even beginners to easily create websites.

However, for those who are new to WordPress for the first time due to its complicated functions, the introduction hurdles are rather high, and many people may not know how to set it.

Therefore, this time I would like to explain in detail the recommended setting method from the basic usage of WordPress.
What is WordPress
Benefits of using WordPress
Create a website without the hassle
Easy to manage content
You can choose your favorite design from many themes
You can easily add functions with plugins
Even beginners can create SEO-resistant sites
Highly customizable
1. Install WordPress
2. Initialize WordPress
Set the website title and tagline
Do not display in search results (set to noindex)
Change the display number of the article list page
How to customize permalinks
Disable the display of comments
Change the number and display method of RSS feeds
3. Set the theme
4. Add plugin
5. Publish the post
Check the post created in the preview
How to change the status of a post
How to manage articles by categories and tags
Other ways to use WordPress
Strengthen security measures
Place a widget in the sidebar
How to set and customize the navigation menu
Publish static page
Edit the theme with FTP client software
Change the contributor name
Strengthen SEO measures for WordPress
Create a site map
Register with Search Console
Adopt Google Analytics
How to use custom fields (for advanced users)
Summary

WordPress is a popular software
that allows even beginners to easily create websites. Originally, it was software created to run a blog, so it has the feature that you can easily manage website contents, and various websites and blogs are run using WordPress.

By the way, some people confuse it with Office Word provided by Microsoft, but it doesn't matter at all.

If you want to create a website or blog yourself, you need a lot of knowledge and beginners will have a lot of hurdles, but by using WordPress you can easily create a website or blog. I will.
Benefits of using WordPress
Before introducing how to use WordPress, let me introduce why WordPress is used and the advantages of WordPress.

Create a website without the hassle
Generally, creating a website requires knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Furthermore, if you want to manage contents from the management screen, you need knowledge of programming languages ​​such as PHP.

If you study them from scratch to publish your website, it will take weeks to months, and the effort will not be ridiculous.

However, by using WordPress, you can skip various steps and publish your website, so even a beginner can easily create a website.
Easy to manage content
WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System), so it has a very good content management function.

When running a blog, you can publish an article by simply writing the article on the management screen and pressing the Publish button.

You can perform a detailed classification of posts such as categories and tags, and you can run a full-scale blog.
You can choose your favorite design from many themes
WordPress allows you to change the design or function of your website or blog simply by changing something like a design template called a "theme".

Themes are published by creators all over the world, so you can publish a website completed by simply selecting a theme that suits you, such as a stylish website that specializes in the design and an SEO-specific theme that specializes in blogs. can.