Getting your own blog to look the way you want it and have all the right elements included takes a bit of time and effort. The problem is not so much that it’s a difficult thing to do - just surf the net and you’ll find literally millions of people blogging these days. They all managed to set up their blogs…

But when you want it optimized for the search engines, offer subscriptions, promote any products you sell and include some other cool features, you have to work your way through quite a list of little tasks. And before you know it, you are literally lost in all the stuff that needs to be taken care of.

Reviewing my own blogs, I found that I forget things all the time…

It is for this reason I created a set of process maps and action sheets which outline the step-by-step installation process. They are a great help to me. Not only does it take me about a third of the time to get a blog set up now, I also have a decent administration of what exactly I installed on my blogs and where to find the resource documentation.

WordPress is open source software. As my personal thank you to everyone who has contributed to making WordPress the great blogging script which it is, I decided to make my WP Blog Installation Action Sheets freely available to everyone who is looking for some more structure in the blog installation and customization process.

This is a pdf file which requires Acrobat Reader 7.0 to open and read. In addition it has been zipped to save on bandwidth. For additional help with downloading and opening the file please [2] see this page…

File name: WPBlogInstallationActionSheets.pdf (WPBlogInstallationActionSheets.zip)
Contents:

• Very brief introduction
• Blog installation check list (27 steps)
• Blog installation process map (visual tool)
• Blog log / design forms
• Blog installation process map including recommended tweaks
• Blog resources forms (service accounts & plugins)

When you decide to download and use the action sheets, please let me know how you like them. You can use the comment form below to submit any feedback. And if you have any questions about how to use these sheets, please post these here as well. I prefer answering questions in public so everyone can benefit from the information.

I look forward to hearing back from you!

Patricia Ritsema van Eck

P.S.
This is a “no-strings-attached” download, meaning you don’t need to register for it first. However, if you want to be informed about upgrades to the action sheets please [3] register a Thin Electrons membership.

Knowing myself I’m likely to include some more action sheets in the future and I’m also very open to improving them according to any feedback I receive…

Bookmark to:
[4]   [5]   [6]   [7]