Many people want WordPress to power their site’s root (e.g. http://yourdomain name.com) but they don’t want all of the WordPress core files cluttering up their root directory. WordPress allows you to install the WordPress files to a subdirectory, but have your blog exist in the site root.

A lot of WordPress users don’t realize they are able to put WordPress in any folder on their site and still have it use the root domain name for its’ location. This is a basic feature of WordPress that you are able to pull of from the start or after you’ve already installed it. There a few reasons why you might want to do this. It can make things more secure and don’t clutter. Moving WordPress to a location other than your domain’s root is useful if you don’t want people to be able to see your admin area easily.

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Essential Plugins for WordPress:

WordPress offers tons of plugins which confuses the new user. Not just that but there are multiple plugins that serves the same purpose and have the same functions. The ones you need to get the upper edge, I will cover it in this article. I am only mentioning the plugins that you need to start off your site.

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One of the best features of WordPress is that it is extremely easy to use. Even if you have never worked with WordPress earlier or used it in any of your operations, it will only take you a minute or two to figure out its installation procedure and to actually install WordPress on your system. In order to make the process of installation of WordPress easy, we are presenting you some important guidelines to you here. However, if you do not wish to install WordPress on your system manually, then you can even make use the automatic WordPress installation service offered by a number of web hosts on the Internet.

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