These are the initial setup and settings customisation you’d need to do before starting to blog :

Dashboard > Settings > General Settings :-

• Site Title – ie. Will’s Learning Journal
• Tagline – (leave this empty; if you don’t have a tagline … yet)
• Administration Email Address – (your email; during your signup)
• Site Language – ie. English (United States) (you can change to other language if you want)
• Timezone – ie. Singapore
• Leave the rest default
• Save Changes

Dashboard > Posts > Categories :-

• Edit Uncategorized to something more generic ie. Misc etc.

Dashboard > Settings > Writing :-

• Writing Settings > Default Post Category – change to ie. Misc (as above) > Save Changes

Dashboard > Settings > Reading :-

• Reading Settings > Your homepage displays > A static page > Posts page – ie. Blog
• Blog pages show at most – ie. 12

Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks :-

• Ensure Permalink structure is set to Post name (this is important from SEO perspective!)