Setting Up Your WordPress Blog – Essential Basics

Today’s tutorial you will learn the basic essential ingredients needed to set a blog. We will cover the basics of:
Examining A Typical premium Theme Back Office Functions.
Adding Plugins
Using Permalink Structures for post and pages.
Setting Up Static Front Pages
Burring A 2nd Home Page
Creating & Editing A Page
Linking text to offers
Several ways To Add A Video
Using html tags
Using widgets
Setting up video auto-play function
Adding Images
Setting structure where posts will appear in the blog
Setting up an optin form with widgets
Adding recent post & comments widgets
See Notes following video to get a list of essential plugins

Plugin List

You can download the list here