Hello and welcome.
Now when you first get to your WordPress site it's going to look something like this depending on what
version that you have.
And there are going to be some things that you want to do right from the start.
You'll notice that our WordPress is in a directory test WB direct and the first thing we're going to
do is log in.
Now you can log in either from the left side menu but you don't want to always keep this left side menu
there.
And so what you're going to want to do is learn how to log in as if you did not have a menu here.
So what you do is to go to the end of your directory.
You type in WP and then you type in a dash and then you type in a D I M N and then hit enter that's
actually going to bring you to a log in screen.
And when you get to that log in screen you're going to want to type in your log in user name and then
you're going to want to write in a password.
Now I'm going to do that right now you'll remember that is the user name that we created.
That's the password that we created.
You can click remember me and then you're going to click log in.
That's what we're going to do right now.
Once we do that of course we will be inside of the WordPress dashboard.
Now routinely when you get to the inside for the first time you're going to see a couple of things that
you are going to be familiar with.
In some cases and in other cases it may be new to you.
One of the first things you'll see is whether or not your version of WordPress needs to be updated.
Now you are going to want to do these updates because this is what keeps your WordPress from being hacked.
Typically if there is a security vulnerability there is an update.
And you'll typically want to take care of this unless there is some compelling reason why you do not
want to do it.
So you see an update go ahead and click the update now you're going to see a screen that looks like
this and then you're just going to want to update your WordPress
WordPress will typically go through a process and it will tell you welcome to the new WordPress.
And I'll tell you that WordPress has been updated successfully
and you'll see a new version of WordPress in most cases.
Now one of the other things you're going to want to do is you're going to want to stop some of the spam
that's going to come into your site.
One of the things that a potential hacker might look for are things that tend to be in the Web sites
of people who just start out in Wordpress and they don't take care of them at the beginning.
So we're going to take care of those things right now.
One of the first things we're going to do is we're going to go to the post area and you're going to
click all posts and you're going to see a post there that's called Hello world.
You'll then want to go and click trash for that post then you'll want to go to your trash area at that
link you'll want to click the box and then you'll want to hover over where hello world and then delete
it permanently
then you'll want to go to the pages area and do the same thing you're going to see a sample page you're
going to click that button you're going to click trash then you're going to go into your trash and then
you're going to delete that page permanently
now you'll then go to the comments area and if there are no comments then you are going to be in good
shape.
If there are you're going to want to delete those comments.
But typically if we had deleted the post and the pages we won't have comments now the next thing we're
going to do is we're going to look in this left side menu and one of the things that we'll talk about
in a later video is that WordPress will give you notifications and when a potential plugin needs to
be updated WordPress will give you this notification.
You're gonna go to that install plugin area and then you're going to give that plug in an update.
So you'll want to go to the update now.
Area and then that will update the plug in.
Now whenever you get to this area again one of the things that you're going to see right away is a plug
in that's going to be an every installation Hello Dolly is typically a plug in.
You're not going to need.
And so you're going to want to go ahead and delete that plug in your click delete files and then your
plug in will be ready.
Now there's one more thing that we're going to want to do in order to get our WordPress to ground zero
and that is to go to the install plugins area and then we're going to want to activate our kismet.
So we're going to go to this plug in and we're going to click activate
and if you already have an a kismet account then you're going to want to activate that a kismet account.
If you don't have one you're going to want to set one up.
So we're going to click activate your Kismet account now if you have ever installed WordPress before
you already have an API key.
If you have not installed WordPress before you're going to want to go get an API key by going through
this process.
Now we're going to go ahead and put in our API key that we already have one and then we're going to
click.
Use this key.
Now once your key has been entered a key summit will tell you it's now activated and you are now ready
to start working with your WordPress site OK.
So with that thanks and I'll see you in another video.