How to Be Ready to Launch Your New WordPress Blog

There’s a lot to think about when first launching a blog. What you’ll write about, what you’ll name your blog, if you should self host and how to actually set your blog up.

If you haven’t read my post, Everything you need to know about starting a successful blog yet, start there and then come back to this post

You are diving into the wonderful world of blogging! You’ve narrowed down your niche, created a motto, came up with a name, grabbed your social media handles, and decided on hosting and a theme. Now come the fun part. Setting up your new blog.

Once your theme is installed in WordPress it’s time to customize it. There are a couple of ways to customize and set up your site. I’ll be focusing on key items to pay attention to and how to set them up. As customization options will vary based on your theme.

If your theme comes with a child theme and demo content be sure to install these before you start customizing. This is very important!

You will find that without the child theme and demo content, you will never be able to set your theme up the way it was in the live preview. Nothing will make sense until you’ve installed the child theme (if your theme comes with one) or the demo content.