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According to the title, in this post I just want to share, how am I starting this blog (again). But the first let me say thanks to Arie Putranto, that has give me some help to run this blog (again). As you know several days months ago this blog has suspended by the web hosting provider.

Ok then “just let it flow”.:lol: As usual, I use fantastico installer from cpanel to create this blog, although there the WordPress version still 2.9.2 I’ve upgrade it to version 3.0 automatically via dashboard administrator, then for the first new launching of this blog, I prefer to use a simple theme (called iNove) that you can get it for free in the WordPress theme directory. I like this theme because, it’s not only simple but also stylish believe it or not, explore it then.

I have done some modification of core file of this theme, just to make better than default. Hmm.. before I forget, I will share my experience about how I set up wordpress configuration for the first use.

After installing wordpress, the first thing I do is check the Settings menu, start from general until the last one permalink. In General option I didn’t change anything. In the Writing option I prefer to change the value of Size of the post box to 50 lines (default: 10) to prepare for the next when I write new post, the width of post box (where we write the post) will expand, so I can view more detail for the long post. Also in the writing option we could add some url of Update Services (I’ll do it later).

Next in the Reading menu (use for set up how our blog show for the reader), I also didn’t change anything here.The next option is Media, I change the value of the menu Image sizes, I give uncheck value for the option thumbnail size, set max height and max width = 0. this is to prevent wordpress make a thumbnail for the post that contain image (to save the disk space on web server). I just let the Privacy option by default, but in the Permalinks option, I prefer to use constum structure /%postname%/ (as you know the permalink structure will give affect to the SEO).

One of the important tips is to hack the wp-config.php file in the root directory, add some code

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

To disable post revisions in WordPress, as you know since  version 2.6 WordPress introduced  Wikipedia style document revisions where you have access to all previous version of the document making it easy to revert incase you make any mistakes. This may be a great feature for blogs where multiple authors work on the same blog post but 99% of WordPress users don’t need it. Post revisions also increase the size of WordPress wp_posts table as each revision means an additional row. (waste our mysql disk space).

Exactly there are still many more tips for blogging with WordPress stand alone engine that actually that I will share to you, but for the next post.