11 Essential Settings When You Build WordPress Website - Must For Every Blog

byGeeEss

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Updated 5 years ago

Are you in the process of building your website? Is your website almost ready for launch? Have you launched your blog recently?

Remember, thousands of new sites appear on the web every day. That's why you want to make sure your website stands out and shines from the beginning. Here you will find some of the very essential settings when you build WordPress website. Please ensure ticking the itemwise checklist of the things you must do before launching your WordPress website.

Just remember, here we are assuming that you have already installed WordPress and everything, like themes, etc, Your content is ready to go, this is also oriented to users who are not with a managed WordPress hosting provider since they do most of these steps for you.

1. The first thing you should do is to install a WordPress backup solution

There are numerous free and paid solutions to do this. The most popular among them are Buddypress and WordFence. When you configure it, configure it for backup on a daily basis and go to a cloud storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive.

2. Ensure your WordPress Admin login from the hackers

One of the easiest ways to do this is to configure security firewall system. It's like having a security guard at your main gate.

3. Check your site for 404 errors

You can add your site to Google Webmasters Tools and check the crawl report or manually go through all your links to make sure that they all look okay.

4. Setup email for your WordPress site

This will ensure that your email notifications will be delivered

5. Check all forms on your site

There's nothing worse than setting up a new site with Contact Us page and to find out that it doesn't work.

6. This is for e-commerce websites

You want to go through your e-commerce site like a customer and see if there are any issues with your shopping experience.

7. Check images videos and sliders

You should make sure they are all loading properly and working correctly also make sure that knowing your images or videos are slowing down your site by being too large.

8. Test social integrations

Make sure all your social networking links work and that they're pointing to the correct profile for your site.

9. Do performance tests

You can test performance of your sites by going to sites like Pingdom and Google PageSpeed. If your site is slow that will affect your Google rankings as well as your user experience. If you need to look at a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache and CDNs to help speed up your site.

10. Install Google Analytics

Google Analytics will help you to start tracking data for your site. Then you can use this information throughout the months to tweak site for better performance.

11. SEO

Check the SEO settings for your site and make sure that it's optimized for search engines. You can do this by using the All In One SEO plugin or Yoast SEO plugin and now your site is ready to launch.

BOOM!

Now you are all set to go ring the bell and declare to the world that you have arrived!

I have been able to tweak performance of my sites by diligently ticking the list one by one before I launch.

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