{"id":771,"date":"2009-07-22T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/webdesign\/2009\/07\/22\/how-to-set-up-your-wordpress-blog\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T03:18:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T07:18:12","slug":"how-to-set-up-your-wordpress-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/webdesign\/2009\/07\/22\/how-to-set-up-your-wordpress-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Set Up Your WordPress Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Blogs are one of the quickest and easiest ways to set up your website.<\/p>\n<p>Most hosting companies give you the option of a &#8220;one click&#8221; installation of WordPress and if you have this available, it&#8217;s worth using as it will take care of setting up the database that WordPress will use.<\/p>\n<div class=\"6bc5ccbe3d2ff567e8bb701db5576878\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* webstyle_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4670586556\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p> The only downside to using this method is that WordPress regularly introduces updates, which means you may have a version that isn&#8217;t quite the latest one. 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