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Up Your WordPress Skills
CHECKLIST FOR BEGINNERS
WORDPRESS PRE-LAUNCH
THE 17-POINT
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Take a minute or two (or a half hour if you have lots of content before launch) and double check that all your content is structured as it should be.
Are all the posts and pages there? Are the permalinks set properly? Are the post tags and categories correct? Are the submission forms working? You get the idea.
DOUBLE CHECK YOUR CONTENT#2
BACK IT UP#1
Test using a different browser so you be signedin while testing
Once you have your WordPress developed and it’s waiting to be revealed to the world this is the checklist you grab to make sure you’ve crossed all the t’s and dotted all the i’s.
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UPGRADE PLUGINS AND THEMES#4
The latest releases of WordPress have security patches, mainte-nance updates and other goodies that help your site run more safely.
So, make sure you update before your site goes live AND make sure you update whenever there is one available.
UPDATE TO THE LATEST VERSION OF WP#3
There’s nothing worse than an update going wrong (which happens sometimes). Makesure you backup your website files anddatabase before you update WordPress corefiles, plugins or themes.
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CROSS-BROWSER COMPATIBILITY#6
MAKE SURE THE SITE IS RESPONSIVE#5
That’s a lotof browsers!
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The admin email is found inside your WordPress admin panel. On the left hand side menu hover over Settings then click General. You will find the admin email address on that page.
A lot of plugins, including Wordfence, will send notifications to that email address. So make sure it’s one that you monitor.
CHANGE THE ADMIN EMAIL#8
SECURE YOUR SITE#7
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CHECK PAGE LOAD SPEED#10
Under Settings >> Reading inside your admin panel there is a little known setting that causes a lot of frustration. It is designed to stop search engines from crawling and indexing your website during the design phase. If you forget to uncheck the box la-belled “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” during your prelaunch you may get very little search engine traf-fic and not know why. MAKE SURE IT’S UNCHECKED!
MAKE SURE YOUR SITE IS ‘CRAWLABLE’#9
Page load speed is a ranking factorin Google, so it’s in your best interestto make sure your site loads quickly.
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CHECK FOR BROKEN LINKS#12
COMPRESS IMAGES ALL IMAGES#11
Make sure there are no 404 errors (ie brokenlinks on your website is important for userexperience. Google doesn’t like to find 404’seither!
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WHITE LABEL THE SITE (OPTIONAL)#14
You probably did this is in the testing environment, but it’s always good to do one last pre-launch check to make sure that all links are going where they are supposed to.
The link checker from the last point only checks if a link works; it doesn’t check whether it’s going to the right place or not.
Make suMake sure all links that leave your website are set to open in a new window and have the rel=”nofollow” HTML attribute if you
CHECK ALL INTERNAL & EXTERNAL LINKS#13
Look at how cool thatcustom admin looks!
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DISABLE COMING SOON PAGE#16
There is a lot that goes into make sure your website is SEO friendly. The first step was making sure your website is ‘craw-lable’ (see step #9). Following that, you’ll need to make sure your permalinks are set to the /%postname%/. Then, you’ll need to do keyword research for all the pages you publish to make sure that you are targeting keywords that actually receive searches in search engines.
With your super-high traffic keywords in hand, make sure that the keyword is found in the title of the page or post, in the URL and in the content. Then create the meta description and meta keywords.
This crash course will get you started with WordPress SEO, if you want to know more check this out.
CHECK FOR PROPER SEO#15
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This is the last step! Congrats on making it this far on your jour-ney towards a successful website :-)
Now it’s time to kick back with your favorite drink and celebrate this moment...
When you’re done celebrating, it’s time to get back to work be-cause once your website is live, that’s when the real work starts!
GO LIVE!!!#17
In case you haven’t realizedit yet, you’re on that rocketship and you’re going togreat things!
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This is the last step! Congrats on making it this far on your jour-ney towards a successful website :-)
Now it’s time to kick back with your favorite drink and celebrate this moment...
When you’re done celebrating, it’s time to get back to work be-cause once your website is live, that’s when the real work starts!
GO LIVE!!!#17
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