Thursday, February 25, 2016

Wordpress Setup Checklist for Basic Website Development

Wordpress Setup

  • Create a separate user for the site owner/business manager and make their user with Admin or Editor privileges, depending on skill level and editing needs.
  • Set the homepage to be a static page. (Configured in Settings > Reading), or from a Theme's options panel.
  • Setup Sidebars with Theme and/or WooSidebars

Plugins

  • Backup:  Updraft Plus.  Schedule weekly or monthly backups to go to the site owner, depending on how frequently they anticipate posting content. 
  • SEO: Yoast SEO
  • Prevent bloated database/excessive revisions:  WP Revision Control
  • Add Contact Form 7

After site is transferred
  • Replace any URLs referencing the development site. Do a search in the Pages list for links or image URLs referencing the development site.  If any are found, remove them from the individual pages
  • Create a Backup using Updraft plus
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