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Step 4: Customize Your Blog

If you haven’t installed WordPress yet, go to Step 2 to use my easy WordPress install guide.
Now that you know the basics of your blog, we can get into some more of the details. WordPress is an amazingly powerful tool that allows you to build your blog in just about any way you can imagine.
You’re probably thinking that your blog design looks pretty boring now, right? Not to worry, I will show you how to change your design and layout in this step, along with a bunch of other cool tips and tricks for personalizing your blog.

Click on the arrows below to see the guide for each topic:

Basic Blog Design

Creating Menus

Customizing Your Blog Design

Adding Plugins

Changing Your User Details

Changing Your URLs

Other Helpful Tutorials


What next?

After completing this step you should have a functioning and attractive blog. Again, you can always go back and make additional changes later. There is no need to have everything perfect right away.
Now let’s get to the fun part – writing your blog!
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