Initial Setup of Unrushed Blog

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Initial Setup of Unrushed Blog

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.