Once you setup your WordPress installation, you need to clean up the default post, pages, and comments. Now as you may recall I often do this after my first page creation because I’m too excited to clean things up before getting some content on the site, so I give you permission to do that if you want/need to.
Delete the “Hello World” post that is automatically created.
- On the admin page, go to “Posts” -> “All Posts” and click “Trash”
- Open the Trash
- Empty the Trash
Delete the “Sample Page” page that is automatically created.
- On the admin page, go to “Pages” -> “All Pages” and click “Trash”
- Empty the trash just as we did the Posts above.
Setup your default Post category – If you are going to be using Posts (for blog, news, or updates of some sort) you want to set the default category (It is “uncategorized” by default)
- On the admin page go to “Posts” -> “Categories”
- Click on the Name (Uncategorized)
- Change the Name and the “slug” (The “slug” is the URL-friendly version of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, and hyphens – Use hyphens for spaces.)
- Submit by pushing the update button
Delete Default Plugins – I usually like to get rid of all the plugins and start fresh – choosing myself what I want.
- From the admin page go to “Plugins”
- Delete the Plugins (There is no trash this time)
Delete Default Links
- From the admin page go to “Links”
- Delete each Link – If you want you can “bulk” delete the links by checking the checkbox, selecting delete in the drop down, and clicking apply
Now you should have a nice clean setup. We have a few more maintenance steps to take care of to get things together but we’ll leave those for our next post.
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