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NextSteps

Congrats, you've installed SimpleLog. Now it's time to do a few little things and you're on your way to having a fully-functional weblog.

Create your user account

Browse to your site and you should see an example post. You should log into the admin section for the first time to change the default username/password (otherwise, anyone can log in if they know the temp account's settings!).

Browse to yoursite.com/admin and log in using:

Enter the Authors section and create a new author account for yourself. Then, when you're done, destroy the temporary user. This will force you to log back in--use the new account you created for yourself.

Set an important preference

Enter the preferences section and set the domain preference. This should be the URL of your site, without http://. For example, if you are running SimpleLog in the root of a normal domain, this would be:

This also works with subdomain installs:

And subdirectories in either normal or subdomains:

It's very important to set your domain preference to the correct value. If you improperly set this or something goes wrong, simply log into the database and change the value in the preferences table.

Import data from other systems (optional)

You can easily import your data from Movable Type 3+, TextPattern and/or WordPress. See importing data for more information and instructions.

Now that SimpleLog is installed, you should read about working with themes →