Modifying the Administrator
The default WordPress installation has a single user called ‘admin’ which has full privileges over the installation and this account allows you to login to your blog and begin work after initial installation.
Generally speaking, most bloggers will want to promote themselves as a personality as well as the blog itself and therefore you want your own name to be used on your blog.
Seeing as you are the blog owner you obviously also need full privileges so what I tend to do is simply to edit the default admin user and give it the chosen name. You still login with the username of ‘admin’ but posts are published, they come up as having being written by the name you chose.
To edit users from your dashboard go to ‘Users’ and then click the username ‘admin’. This allows you to input the first name, last name, email address and some other details. Once you have entered the name make sure you also click the drop down ‘Display name publicly as’ and select your name, rather than admin.
Also, for security purposes change the generated password to something more secure and then save the user.
Setting up Comment Moderation
A good blog will attract comments which unfortunately will include plenty of spam as well as legitimate comments so we’ll need to fiddle around with the settings a little. Go to ‘Settings’ and then ‘Discussion’ and look through the options.
Some of the options in this section have changed a little in recent releases of WordPress but the main sections to be aware of are:
There are two checkboxes that specify whether users are allowed to comment and allowed to leave trackbacks. Both of these boxes should be checked or you will not be allowing any comments at all!
You can alter the email settings here. This is largely a matter of preference. By default WordPress will send the administrator an email when a new comment is left but that can soon become overwhelming if your blog becomes popular. I turn this off and make a point of checking my comments on a daily basis.
By default, when somebody leaves a comment it is published immediately and of course that can be good or bad depending on your point of view. If somebody posts something abusive or spammy then you might want to know about it beforehand and this is largely dependent on the topic of your blog.
In the main, real people leave nice comments on my blogs so I try not to moderate too much. I use the akismet plugin to trap about 99.9% of spam so very little gets through. However, one thing I dislike is when people start dropping an excessive number of links into their comments so I chose the option to moderate all comments with more than 2 links.
When this happens you need to manually click the ‘approve’ button for every comment in the moderation queue before it will show up on your blog. This obviously causes a delay for the comment poster so I would advise you to use this feature sparingly.
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