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  • 20 Steps to a Flexible and Secure WordPress Installation

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    A comprehensive WordPress installation, albeit simple to produce, often requires multiple steps — many of which can easily be omitted accidentally. How many times have you forgotten to customize your permalink structure? How about adding in a sitemap plugin? What about changing your timezone? If you’ve installed WordPress more than once, chances are you’ve missed something. Take the following steps and you’ll never miss anything again.

    Step 1: Get WordPress from SVN
    The number one mistake for a flexible WordPress installation happens right from the get-go. I’ve seen numerous developers manually download, unzip, and upload WordPress to their site. This is not only a waste of time, but it also reduces flexibility.
    If you download WordPress from SVN, all you need to do is run the following in command-line:
    svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0 .
    Maybe you want the latest developer version. That’s even simpler:
    svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/ .
    Why is this…