Well it new year and people have resolutions. Someone will put up such a grand resolution to set-up a new blog or move their existing blog from free hosting to paid hosting. There also someone quickly upgrade their wordpress with the latest version for some obvious reason. In all this chaotic event, you may have unintentionally make this 3 mistakes.
1. Use “One Click Install” solutions provided by your web hosting provider.
In most cases, web hosting provider will provide one click install for popular application like wordpress. But ironically this solution can spell trouble:
- in many cases the available version is outdated
- in the event you want to upgrade your wordpress in the future, you may have to reinstall some of your theme again.
- some “one click install” could mess-up with you database configuration as such your need to re-establish your data connection.
2. Still stick to the default admin user
When you install wordpress, it’s automatically create a default admin user. You should not use this account instead create a new admin account with a new password.
3.For a seer of simplicity, you just up-load the whole package.
In the distribution package there is this file name wp-config-sample.php. The file suppose to be meant for your blog configuration. It should be uploaded to your domain root because it will create a security risk.
You should change the file to wp-config.php and make sure it can view from any browser. Sometimes people forget. When you forget to do this, anybody can log-in to your wordpress dashboard and change your blog.
Do you think there is other mistake that people do unintentional when they install or upgrade their wordpress?
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The third tip was very important I would say, if one forgets to do that, the end results might be really dangerous. Thanks for the very helpful information.
What bothers me a lot – Wordpress “about me” page, I saw default waaay to many times and I gone crazy when it seems all great and all this text on it. People do read such pages and whant to know more about the owner
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