20 tips to Improving Your WordPress Site...for Beginners
Download as PPTX, PDF1 like831 views
This document provides 20 tips for improving a WordPress site for beginners. It recommends using good hosting providers, strong passwords, backing up the site, keeping software updated, using quality themes and plugins, optimizing images, adding alt text to images, setting the correct timezone, using the WordPress admin area options, quick edit, SEO plugins, Google Analytics, making sharing easy with social media plugins, using text widgets, and listed resources for learning more about WordPress.
![Ditto on Plugins
http://wordpress.org/plugins
Plugins extend and expand the
functionality of WordPress. 46,761
plugins with 1,409,750,985 total
downloads on WordPress.org
[Thereβs an app for that]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/20tipstoimproving-161001154847/85/20-tips-to-Improving-Your-WordPress-Site-for-Beginners-14-320.jpg)
![Google Analytics & Search
Console
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/an-introduction-to-google-analytics-for-wordpress
https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-connect-your-website-to-google-webmaster-tools/
[Donβt forget
Bing!]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/20tipstoimproving-161001154847/85/20-tips-to-Improving-Your-WordPress-Site-for-Beginners-32-320.jpg)
![TextWidget -
htmlWhat if you donβt know html?
1. Use a plugin [something like Black Studio Tiny MCE ]
2. Do an βadd newβ post or page
- Format the information in the Visual Editor
then go to the text tab β copy and paste to
the widget (then trash the post or page.)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/20tipstoimproving-161001154847/85/20-tips-to-Improving-Your-WordPress-Site-for-Beginners-35-320.jpg)
20 tips to Improving Your WordPress Site...for Beginners
- 1. 20Tips to Improving YourWordPress Siteβ¦ for Beginners WORDCAMP RI, OCT 01, 2016 REIKO BEACH β TRB DESIGNS.COM
- 2. About meβ¦ WORDCAMP RI, OCT 01, 2016 REIKO BEACH β TRB DESIGNS.COM
- 4. Good Hosting (examples only, there are many, many more) Good & Cheap: shared hosting β’ GoDaddy, Bluehost, DreamHost Fast & Cheap shared hosting: A2Hosting, SiteGround Fast & Good (managed WorPress): β’ Pantheon, WP Engine
- 5. Good Passwords Have strong passwords at all entry points: β’ Hosting control panel β’ FTP β’ WordPress admin (never use βadminβ) Download code directly from wordpress.org when possible
- 6. Good Passwords http://gizmodo.com/the-25-most-popular-passwords-of-2014-were-all-doomed-1680596951 13. letmein (Up 1) 14. abc123 (Down 9) 15. 111111 (Down 8) 16. mustang (New) 17. access (New) 18. shadow (Unchanged) 19. master (New) 20. michael (New) 21. superman (New) 22. 696969 (New) 23. 123123 (Down 12) 24. batman (New) 25. trustno1 (Down 1) 2014 most used passwords: 1. 123456 (Unchanged) 2. password (Unchanged) 3. 12345 (Up 17) 4. 12345678 (Down 1) 5. qwerty (Down 1) 6. 123456789 (Unchanged) 7. 1234 (Up 9) 8. baseball (New) 9. dragon (New) 10. football (New) 11. 1234567 (Down 4) 12. monkey (Up 5)
- 7. Backup your site Article on different (free) ways to back up your site: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/free-wordpress-backup-plugins/ Use a plugin or service (automatic) Backup Buddy or VaultPress or UpdraftPlus (to name a few) -or- Your Hosting service - just make sure its not backing up to the same server.
- 8. Backup your site REMEMBER - A WordPress site lives in two separate places simultaneously (visit your CPanel) - files and folders (file manager) - data in tables in a database (phpMyAdmin) You need to back up both Secure your backups
- 10. Site Security https://yoast.com/wordpress-security/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security β’ JetPack β’ Ithemes Security β’ Wordfence β’ All in One WP Security β’ Limit Login Attempts β’ Clef Two-Factor Authentication β’ Sucuri
- 11. Stay Up-to-date https://sucuri.net/website-security/website-hacked-report/ 56% of WordPress installations were running out of date versions of core
- 12. Stay Up-to-date Keep plugins, themes and core WordPress updated Be careful of what ο¬les you change (ideally, donβt change any βcoreβ ο¬les in themes, plugins or WordPress itself)
- 13. Use GoodThemes https://wordpress.org/themes/ http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/choose-premium-wordpress-theme-site/ Free Themes Be aware of βFreemiumβ model Some Premium Themes: β’ Elegant Themes β’ ThemeForest β’ Themify
- 14. Ditto on Plugins http://wordpress.org/plugins Plugins extend and expand the functionality of WordPress. 46,761 plugins with 1,409,750,985 total downloads on WordPress.org [Thereβs an app for that]
- 15. Ditto on Plugins http://www.wpexplorer.com/best-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/24-must-have-wordpress-plugins-for-business-websites/ Check: β’ The ratings β’ When last updated β’ Support forum
- 16. Always have an image http://www.mdgadvertising.com/blog/its-all-about-the-images-infographic/ Articles containing relevant images have a 94 percent more total views that articles without images
- 17. Always have an imageWhere to find images: β’ Creative Commons Search β’ Flickr β’ Google or Bing images β make sure you define the search for βlabeled for commercial reuse with modificationsβ β’ Stock Image sites β Shutterstock, Adobe, Depositphotos, iStock (many, many more)
- 18. Title & AltText your Image http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/image-alt-text-vs-image-title-in-wordpress-whats-the- difference/ Image Alt Text β fill it in, it helps with Accessibility and SEO
- 19. Title & AltText your Image Image Title Attribute: Under Advanced Options
- 20. Image Size https://codex.wordpress.org/Image_Size_and_Quality β’ File size (kb) β’ Size of image (px) β’ Resolution (72 px for web 300px for print) β’ File Type (jpg, gif, png, ico)
- 21. Image Size Plugins to help resize and optimize images: β’ EWWW Image Optimizer β’ WP Smush
- 22. Embed Content https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds βIt's super easy to embed videos, images, tweets, audio, and other content into your WordPress site.β
- 23. Embed Content Full list here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds Flickr Hulu Instagram Kickstarter Meetup.com Photobucket PollDaddy SlideShare Tumblr Twitter VideoPress WordPress TV YouTube
- 24. Remove Formatting from CopiedTextWordPress automatically removes Word formatting. You can also copy just get the text
- 26. Set upTime Zone Settings >> General Go down to Timezone and change to New York for websites in this time zone
- 29. Quick Edit
- 30. Quick Edit
- 31. SEO β Search Engine Optimization https://wpvkp.com/best-wordpress-seo-plugins/ Popular Plugins: Yoast SEO & All in One SEO
- 32. Google Analytics & Search Console https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/an-introduction-to-google-analytics-for-wordpress https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-connect-your-website-to-google-webmaster-tools/ [Donβt forget Bing!]
- 33. Make Sharing Easy https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/best-social-media-sharing-plugins-for-wordpress http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/925-social-media-stats-year.html http://modernwpthemes.com/7-best-free-wordpress-social-media-plugin/ βSocial Mediaβ plugins: 1,283 items β’ 74% of marketers saw an increase in traffic after spending just 6 hours per week on social media β’ 50% of Internet users are active on Facebook β’ 52% of marketers have gained a customer through Facebook, and 35% have done so through Twitter
- 34. TextWidget - htmlThe WordPress Text widget is the easiest way to add custom HTML code to your WordPress sidebar.
- 35. TextWidget - htmlWhat if you donβt know html? 1. Use a plugin [something like Black Studio Tiny MCE ] 2. Do an βadd newβ post or page - Format the information in the Visual Editor then go to the text tab β copy and paste to the widget (then trash the post or page.)
- 36. Resourses β’ WpBeginner (Lots of other sites, WPShout, WPTavern) β’ Udemy, Lynda, Treehouse, Skillshare β’ Facebook, Linkedin groups & pages β’ Local WP Meetups β WordCamps β’ WordPressTV & YouTube http://www.codeinwp.com/blog/wordpress-courses-for-beginners-udemy-vs-lynda-vs-treehouse-vs-skillshare/ http://themeisle.com/blog/blogs-about-wordpress-to-read/