These are the steps I do on default WP installs to get going.

• Download WP from http://www.wordpress.org
• Unzip and upload to domain
• Go back to domain and go through install
• When get message to create a config file, there is an error that it cannot write to the directory
• Goto the directory public_html and temporarily set it to chmod 777
• Click on button to create Config file and install.
• Enter WP information for database
• When install is done, change information for password from default password
• Delete all default posts, blogroll links, and default comments
• Change category of uncategorized to a category with site
• Set permalinks to Custom Structure to /%category%/%postname%
• Add About, Privacy,  and Contact pages
• Disable Comments and Pings on the About, Privacy,  and Contact Pages.
• Upload Themes (Keep default for troubleshooting) and Plugins
• Make dir /wp-content/uploads/ dir and make it writable by server
• Use Akismet API key for Akismet config

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