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WordPress Oct 07, 2026

Building a wordpress site from scratch: what order do you do things in?

Bought hosting and a domain for my photography business and wordpress is installed. Now I'm staring at the dashboard. Theme first, pages first, plugins first? I'd rather not redo everything in a month.
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lila_growth Nov 09, 2026
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I'd add backups before step 4, not after. A plugin conflict on day two with no backup is a rebuild. Same reason: don't call your admin account "admin".
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johnny_serp Oct 13, 2026
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roughly what I do: 1. hosting, domain, SSL 2. install WP, tick "discourage search engines" in Settings > Reading while you build 3. permalinks to post name, timezone, delete the sample stuff 4. theme, then only the plugins you actually need (SEO, forms, backups, caching) 5. page structure and menus 6. content 7. forms tested, analytics + search console, speed check on mobile 8. untick discourage search engines step 8 is the one people forget. weeks later they're wondering why nothing's indexed.
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