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In this series of posts I’ll share my experiences with setting up my blog using Wordpress and things to keep in mind while blogging with Wordpress.

Step 1: Installing Wordpress
There are two ways to install Wordpress: either you download it from Wordpress.org and manually upload it on your domain or you use any software installer provided by your domain manager such as Fantastico or a similar solution.

Step 2: Configuring Wordpress
This is the most time consuming process, since everythign you do after installing wordpress is included here. People generally prefer to do some configurations first, but I prefer to finsih all uploading work first and configurations later.

Step 2.1: Installing Plugins
Plugins add extra features to your basic wordpress blog and render it into a powerful publishing tool. Wordpress.org Plugins Directory has an huge list of very useful wordpress plugins.

I am using the following Plugins:

• Ajax Comment Posting: Posts comments and validates the comment form using Ajax By regua.
• Akismet: Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. By Matt Mullenweg.
• All in One SEO Pack: Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. By uberdose.
• AutoMeta: Automatically generate and include HTML Meta Tags and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. By Rich Boakes.
• Awsom News Announcement: Allows you to post news announcements in the area above your posts on the index page (or anywhere else you want). By Harknell.
• Broken Link Checker: Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. By Janis Elsts.
• Cite This: Citations provider for WordPress By Yu-Jie Lin.
• FeedBurner FeedSmith: Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. By FeedBurner.
• In Series: Gives authors an easy way to connect posts together as a series. By Travis Snoozy.
• Redirection: A redirection manager By John Godley.
• StatPress: Real time stats for your blog By Daniele Lippi.
• WP-DownloadManager: Adds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
• WP-Flickr: The plugin adds a new tab to the upload panel when writing posts / pages to insert img tags from flickr By Jon Baker @ Clockwork Objects.
• WP-Footnotes: Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post. By Simon Elvery.
• WP-PostRatings: Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
• WP-PostViews: Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. It will not count registered member views, but that can be changed easily. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
• WP-Print: Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
• WP-ServerInfo: Display your host’s server PHP and MYSQL information (integrated into WordPress Admin Style) on your WordPress dashboard. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
• WP-Smartdate: WP-Smartdate automagically resolves relative dates (e.g. “tomorrow,” “this coming Monday”) and adds the date reference in a machine-readable tag. By mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine).
• WP Post Columns: Allows you to easily create columns within your posts for a magazine / newspaper style layout. By Sam Burdge.
• WP YouTube: WP YouTube allows you to control all the YouTube videos at the same time. By Jens Törnell.
• WP_HeadNFoot: WP_HeadNFoot is a free WordPress plug-in that help you to simply and easily insert code into the header and footer of a page, useful for things such as Google Analytics. The changes are theme independent allowing y0u to update or change the theme without having to remake the changes. By DCoda Ltd.

We download these from the Wordpress.org Plugins Directory and upload them in the /wp-content/plugins folder in your Wordpress install. Next up, we will be configuring these plugins to suit our use.

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