Building The Raspberry Pi: First Run

Raspberry PiThis post is part of the series on building my new Raspberry Pi; this series is a sub-series of the Adventures with a Raspberry Pi.

When you start the Raspberry Pi for the first time, the new Raspbian Lite OS will start and progress to the logon prompt.

The default logon credentials for the Raspbian OSes are:

  • Username = pi
  • Password = raspberry

After logging in I would very strongly recommend that the password be reset which you can do in the System Configuration Tool. I’ll cover this tool in the next post.

Adventures With A Raspberry Pi

Adventures With A Raspberry Pi
Building The Raspberry Pi: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Complete Starter Kit
Building The Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi Build
Building The Raspberry Pi: Install Operating System
Building The Raspberry Pi: First Run
Building The Raspberry Pi: System Configuration Tool
Building The Raspberry Pi: Enable SSH For Remote Access
Building The Raspberry Pi: Securing the Raspberry Pi
Building The Raspberry Pi: Conclusion
Installing Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: What is Pi-hole?
Installing Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Install Pi-hole
Installing Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Change Pi-hole Admin Password
Installing Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Configure Network to use Pi-hole
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Blocked Adverts
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Admin Interface
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Disabling Pi-hole
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Whitelisting a Site
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Update Blocklists
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Maintain Blocklists
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Change DNS Servers
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Connecting With SSH
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Updating the Pi-hole
Using Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Conclusion
What Else Can I Use It For?
Prepare New SD Card For Raspberry Pi OS: Download SD Card Formatter
Prepare New SD Card For Raspberry Pi OS: Install SD Card Formatter
Prepare New SD Card For Raspberry Pi OS: Format SD Card
Prepare New SD Card For Raspberry Pi OS: Download NOOBS
Prepare New SD Card For Raspberry Pi OS: Copy Files To The SD Card
Prepare New SD Card For Raspberry Pi OS: Conclusion
Installing Pi-hole On A Raspberry Pi: Changing the IP Address
Raspberry PI Update Fails
Check Version of OS on Raspberry Pi
How to Update the OS on a Raspberry Pi

Could You Contribute To ClassicPress?

ClassicPressWhen Gutenberg for WordPress was released I did try to use it, but found it was unusable. Instead I started taking a look at ClassicPress and liked what I saw. I eventually started planning to migrate my sites from WordPress to ClassicPress and outlined my reasons for doing so.

I have also invested some time in creating new versions of my plugins for ClassicPress; these plugins are either entirely rewritten to bring them up to a certain level of coding standard, including massive improvements to the security aspect, or they are entirely new plugins (such as the Add Twitter Cards and URL Shortener).

I’ve also been involved in translating ClassicPress and writing some documentation, both areas I intend to continue helping with, and am considering looking at some of the simpler issues on GitHub.

I am only a contributor on a very small scale; many others are making much, much larger contributions. Which is the point. Behind every successful open source project is a vibrant community who is involved in both developing for and supporting the project.

Open source projects like ClassicPress need contributions from all sorts of people with all sorts of skills. All large projects like ClassicPress have a lot of work to do, especially in areas such as new infrastructure, defining roles, procedures, tools and organizing tasks.

ClassicPress Needs You

Could you contribute to ClassicPress? Check out this post on the ClassicPress blog and see how you could help out.

ClassicPress needs help from people who are developers, designers, marketers, people who are multi-lingual and can help with translations. It needs all sorts of people. Why not get involved?

If you don’t have the time to actively contribute, you can also help the project by voting on the future direction of development on the petitions site. The petitions site allows you to vote on what changes or new functionality should be introduced in future versions of ClassicPress.

This is one of the areas which separates ClassicPress from WordPress; ClassicPress lets you have a say in the future course of the project.