How To Install and Set up Your Self Hosted WordPress Blog Today

Dude, I Want To A Professional Looking Blog Like Yours – What Do I Do?

I get two or three emails a week from people about how I set up SidSavara.com. Since this question comes up so frequently, here’s a FAQ to answer how I set my blog up.  Follow these directions step by step, and in a few hours you will have a professional, self hosted blog.

1. Is This Guide Right For You?  Three Types Of Bloggers
2. What Are We Going To Cover?  Goals For This WordPress Install Guide
3. Register a Domain
4. Choosing and Signing up For Web Hosting
5. Install WordPress
6. Set up additional services
   1. Feedburner
   2. DISQUS for comments
   3. Claim your blog on Technorati
   4. Google Analytics
7. Install Required Tools: Firefox and FireFTP
8. Set up Must Have Plugins
9. Configure WordPress and Base Plugins
10. Set up the “Must Have” Pages
    1. About Page
    2. Contact Page
    3. Site Map
11. Install a Theme
    1. Install Widgets and Customize
12. Optional: Import and Export

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