Advantage
The second major advantage is that it is well supported – there are add-ons (called plug-ins) that can transform your website into almost anything you want. Thirdly there are lots of different themes that you can use to adjust the feel and look of your website at a them of course, just because all that’s available doesn’t mean that your WordPress website will be the bees knees automatically.
That’s the location where the skill of either people or your website developer is necessary.
Using WordPress being a pro isn’t difficult but like all good stuff in life there is a learning curve involved.
The main installation of WordPress leaves considerably to be desired. A large bunch of links which can be automatically installed – they’re pretty much the very first thing I delete when I a new install involving WordPress.
Once you’ve deleted those blogroll links and also the default “hello world” post then there are many things you need to undertake to turn your WordPress installation with a boring one into a professional website.
Built-In Themes in WordPress website
If you stay with one of the built-in themes then you need to change the header image. This is a simple matter of going an image created (either by yourself or on a web site like Fiverr if you’re design challenged) and publishing it. That will transform the looks of your website right away. Or you can choose one of the thousands of available themes if you want your site to look more distinctive.
Widgets section of the Appearance tab
Next you need to go into the Widgets section of the Appearance tab. Again, your default WordPress installation isn’t excellent here. Drag and drop several widgets into the right hand bar of your website so that you don’t have all the default “meta” and also other options there. I tend to use the Search box and recent posts as my default for a new site. If I’m targeting signups to a newsletter I’ll also add a text box and use that to house the newsletter signup code.
Page Names in WordPress website
Page names are one more thing that separate the WordPress pro from the people who just pick the standard installation. These are set inside Permalinks section of settings and are well worth changing before it starts. I choose the custom option and that code:
/%postname%/
so that the title of the post appears as the URL. This helps with all your WordPress SEO.
There are various plugins that I recommend you choose with WordPress to keep your site at its preferred:
- Limit login tries – this thwarts would-be hackers by limiting the quantity of times they can make an attempt to guess your password just before they get locked available.
- Yoast’s WordPress SEO – this can be the best plugin I’ve found to maintain your on-site search engine optimization tweaked.
- A contact form plugin to make it possible for your website visitors to get hold of you.
- An social media plugin – there are lots available which will allow your visitors to Tweet about your websites, like it on Twitter, pin it on Pinterest, etc. I haven’t got a unique favourite on these but I really do aim to use one on each of my WordPress blogs
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