Right after creating a blog and writing Hello World post for it, I like to write a post on the efforts behind setting up of the blog. It serves both as a guide for others and a documentation for myself that I can refer to months later, just to compare the before and after state.
Here are the details:
- Domain: Porkbun.
- I have been using them for a while and simply love them. Simple, reliable and cheap! They also have free email forwarding, which is what brought contact@unrushedapps.com to you folks.
- Hosting: Cloudways.
- A bit on the expensive side to have a dedicated server for wordpress blog. A shared hosting would have done the job. But I have another blog running on it already, so I am now just sharing the same hosting among my two blogs.
- Theme: Stratus
- I could have used a default free theme. I should have. But their demo page showcasing app looked beautiful so I ended up buying it. To be honest, I would probably go for something else next time. Something that’s lighter and faster. I am stuck with this for now since I don’t want to spend more money on the theme. Let’s focus on the content for a bit shall we?
- Plugins
- Elementor: Came with the theme.
- Sitekit: Plugin by Google for Google Analytics. Pretty good.
- Rank Math for SEO.
- Complianz: Cookie policy and Cookie popup for GDPR
- Smush for optimising images.
- Wordfence for security
- wpDiscuz for a better commenting system.
- UpdraftPlus for backing up blog regularly on Google drive.
- Legal Pages
- Cookie Policy: Complianz plugin created on for me.
- Privacy Policy: Created for free at CookieYes.
- Terms & Condition: Complianz has another plugin for this. Used that.
That’s it. Took me roughly three weeks to get everything set up. I am not really happy with the speed and performance of the blog, but I don’t think I can do much to improve it with this theme. If I write consistently for a year on this blog, I will switch to a lighter theme next year.
