Systems Cowboy » installing wordpress http://www.systemscowboy.com Internet Marketing, SEO, PPC, PPV, and CPA Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:01:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 WordPress is the Greatest http://www.systemscowboy.com/wordpress-is-the-greatest.html http://www.systemscowboy.com/wordpress-is-the-greatest.html#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:57:15 +0000 admin http://www.systemscowboy.com/?p=6 I love WordPress.  I don’t bother “designing” or “programming” sites anymore.  There are too many great templates for WordPress, it’s too easy to use, and there is a plug-in for most anything I need to do.  A WordPress site doesn’t have to look like a blog, and it’s perfect for creating “mini-sites”.

Now, this subject has been covered alot online, but I’m going to talk about what I do when I set up a WordPress blog since it’s on my mind as I set up this blog today.

The first thing I do is set up Permalinks.  Under settings > Permalinks > Custom Structure, I pretty much always put /%postname%.html

That makes the URL of all your posts look like www.myurl.com/my-subject-matter.html instead of www.myurl.com/?p=123.

Next, I take a couple of minutes and install several key plugins…

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