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Setting up blog – WordPress, Google Analytics, DISQUS.

by Bhavin Gandhi

As I said in my first blog post,

How to setup a blog using WordPress along with Google Analytics, DISQUS comments system,

There are lot of great tutorials online, so I will just put them together.

This tutorial will cover setting up WordPress, Google Analytics, DISQUS, also how to make your site appear in search results.

Things you will need

setting up blog

Installing WordPress

Just follow this great tutorial, If you are going with square7.ch or bplaced.net then follow the FTP method.

How to Install WordPress - Complete WordPress Installation Tutorial

on square7.ch and bplaced.net the database name and username for that database is same.

I recommend FileZilla as FTP client.

Adding DISQUS to your blog

Disqus provides really great comments system,

Create new site on disqus.com/admin

Adding site to disqus

From your WP dashboard go to Plugins -> Add New and search for Disqus Comment System plugin by disqus,

After installing and activating just follow onscreen instructions.

Setting up Google Analytics

This tutorial explains why it’s necessary to add analytics

How to Install Google Analytics in WordPress for Beginners

To install Google Analytics in your WP blog you can install Google Analytics by MonsterInsights plugin.

Activate it login using Google account.

Once you done the setup, after some days you will see ghost spam in Google Analytics_,_

What is ghost spam and how to filter it?

Complete Guide to Removing Google Analytics Spam and Other Junk Traffic

When you create new site, it’s not added automatically in the index of google or other search engine.

To add your site to Google search index go to,

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home

Search Console 1 Search Console 2

upload the html to the host and click on the link to confirm your ownership.

It takes some time to index your pages,

to see the indexed pages of your site, search

“site:yoursitename.domain”

for our site it will be site:bhavin192.square7.ch

For more information refer to this article,

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Your-Website-Indexed-by-Google

Some other plugins

Crayon Syntax Highlighter

https://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/

Easy FancyBox

https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-fancybox/

Feel free to ask, I will try to help you. 🙂
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Abhinav Shirur on Mon May 30, 2016 19:32 IST

Very useful ! Highly recommended..

bhavin192 on Mon May 30, 2016 19:40 IST
Replying to comment by Abhinav Shirur: "Very useful ! Highly recommended.. "

Thank You @abhinavshirur:disqus, glad to hear that :)

Gajanan More on Thu Jun 30, 2016 21:52 IST
Replying to comment by bhavin192: "Thank You @abhinavshirur:disqus, …"

This is a lot helpful. Thanks b192

bhavin192 on Sun Jul 3, 2016 12:01 IST
Replying to comment by Gajanan More: "This is a lot helpful. Thanks b192 "

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Trade Insta on Fri Apr 9, 2021 13:19 IST

Very informative blog and i learn some points, Thanks you

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