- Set the Admin theme
- Seven comes installed with Drupal 7
- Rubrik is nice but has one bug that doesn’t show view replacement patterns
- Set the site email address to your preferred administration email
- admin/config/system/site-information
- Before Creating any content (fake or otherwise)
- Create content types
- !!! Warning: once content has been entered, content types cannot be changed without damaging data
- Turn on and configure path aliases with pathauto module
- Turn on clean urls
- Create text formats for user roles
- admin/config/content/formats
- Set up WYSIWYG editors if needed
- Create image style settings
- admin/config/media/image-styles
- Create a 2nd admin account (Thanks to commenter Nik for this one)
What's your process for setting up a new Drupal site? Let us know in comments if you think we missed anything.