Here are two great tutorials for you on how to configure your setting in your blog. This first one covers the general settings, the writing settings and the discusion settings. In the video when it talks about the writing section it talks about auto pinging. My feeling on this is to leave it blank until you have six or eight posts up. After that the only service I use is Pingoat.com.

 

 

 

In this second video the setting covered are permalinks and how to make a page your homepage through the reading settings. In the permalinks section it talks about a custom permalink structure and I don’t think that you will be able to make it out in the video so here is the code:
/%category%/%postname%

 

 

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