So how do you get visitors to come to your new WordPress website?
Make the time to write up your WordPress Content factoring in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) .
You can put a website link on your business card, network by word of mouth, create a FaceBook page which references your website, put the link on your bumper sticker and use it on LinkedIn. Why not try to use Google’s search engine? Continue reading “WordPress SEO Content for Local Business.”
Recently, I have been looking into how to embed WordPress forms into emails to be sent out to Groups but without much success. In particular, I wanted to use a Gravity Form so that there would be entries recorded in the WordPress forms area which could be exported into a spreadsheet for easy tracking and analysis.
Then I took a step back and concluded that this is a bad idea. Even when I see a link included an email, security warning lights flash before my eyes. Usually the link name is displayed and not the actual link showing that SSL is used. Including a form or any executable in an email makes me even more hesitant to use it. Too many times well meaning friends send me fixes for a virus that lead to installing the virus. I have become much less trusting of email links. Even well meaning people make mistakes.
Links in eMails from a trusted source should be as transparent as possible. Just show the URL so the reader can see the website and the use of SSL. Before the link you can easily describe what the link is for and why the reader should use it, you don’t need to give it a name and hide the URL from plain site.
Gravity Forms has an extension for embedding forms into MailChimp emails. I suppose such emails would be considered a trusted source since you would have subscribed to the list of recipients.
The TwentySeventeen theme is a good looking theme.
The TwentyEighteen is coming soon.
Default themes from the WordPress development team have good support and an active comnunity of users.
Plugin compatability is assured. All plugins must work on the current default wordpress theme; this removes the theme contention with plugin issues. Surely, there can still be conflicts between plugins and
need to be familiar with how to determine such conflicts using a process of elimination.
Ensures that the latest WordPress features are being used. The default themes are designed to show off
wordpress enhancements, eg. Gutenberg.
It just makes sense to start with a free theme that you know will not fall off the earth.
There should be alot of user experience to draw from when you move to the latest defauld theme.
A Solid State Drive will deliver content over 10 times faster than HDD. If you have not experienced this on your PC you gotta give it a try.
Google SEO requires an SSL certificate. There is no performance impact for adding this kind of Security. There are lots of solutions, but I like using cPanel AUTOSSL with Commodo or Easy SSL. This should not be a costly addition to your website security. Continue reading “WordPress Hosting”
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Gutenberg
About Gutenberg WP Tavern conversations. resources and videos.
WP TOUCH AMP Use WP Touch to for a simple AMP solution.
WPtouch Pro Mobile device WordPress theme plugin. Very important to be able to have a Mobile theme and separate mobile home page tailored to the mobile user.
Plugins
Akismet A universally used must have Spam Protection for WordPress.
Aniti-Splog Stop spam blogs on WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress without shutting down signups. Use crowdsourced data from thousands of networks and millions of blogs to fight trolls, bots, spam blogs, pharma ads, and malicious posts.
Display Posts Shortcode The Display Posts Shortcode was written to allow users to easily display listings of posts without knowing PHP or editing template files. Add the shortcode in a post or page, and use the arguments to query based on tag, category, post type, etc.
Events+ From RSVPs and ticket sales to guest lists and social promotion, Events + is everything you need to create, share and manage your next fundraiser, webinar, monthly class, virtual direct sales party, concert or rally all from WordPress or Multisite.
Floating Social A handy Social Media alternative to the Media menu provided by Social Warfare.
Google Maps Add simple controls and a ton of options for easily embedding, styling and customizing Google Maps to look amazing on your WordPress site. Create interactive maps with custom drop-pins to make your contact form or share your store locations.
Gravity Forms My form tool of choice. Gravity Forms is the Easiest Tool to Create Advanced Forms for Your WordPress-Powered Website.
Gutenberg Article Gutenberg and the Future of WordPress: Conditions for Success
Header and Footer Scripts You never know when this will become handy. Nice to have around when needed.
iThemes Security Pro I have used this a long time. Works well with lots of options.
Link Library This plugin activates Wordpress Link Library and provides a solid functional Library with good support.
MultiSite Enhancements When you work quite a bit with WordPress Multisites, sometimes you need more information or menu items. This plugin enhances the network area for super admins with useful functions
NextGen Gallery NextGEN Gallery has been the industry’s standard WordPress gallery plugin since 2007 and continues to receive over 1.5 million new downloads per year. It’s easy for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual a
Reveal IDs With WordPress 2.5 being released, the IDs on all admin pages have been removed as it is. Propably due to the fact that the common user dont need them. However, for advanced WordPress Users/ developers those IDs were quite interesting for some plugins or
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Social Warefare Provides a social media menu for users to post your site to Facebook.
Sucuri Security Handy if you don't like iThemes Security Pro.
Ultimate Branding A good way to tweak the look of your WordPress Dashboard and login.
WPtouch Pro Mobile device WordPress theme plugin. Very important to be able to have a Mobile theme and separate mobile home page tailored to the mobile user.
Yoast Insights Yoast SEO Premium has a helpful little tool to guide you: prominent words in Insights.
Yoast SEO Premium Very useful tool to provide critical analysis to improve your content quality and SEO.
Trello Project Boards area a simple and free project planning tool. Better than using emails to track progress and assign tasks.
Security
Akismet A universally used must have Spam Protection for WordPress.
Aniti-Splog Stop spam blogs on WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress without shutting down signups. Use crowdsourced data from thousands of networks and millions of blogs to fight trolls, bots, spam blogs, pharma ads, and malicious posts.
Disable REST API WordPress core are already beginning to use the REST API – it is also not functionality that every site admin is going to want enabled on their website if not necessary.
iThemes Security Pro I have used this a long time. Works well with lots of options.
Sucuri Security Handy if you don't like iThemes Security Pro.
Sucuri SiteCheck A free Website Malware and Security Scanner. An invaluable way to do periodic security checks. iThemes Security Pro automates these checks.
WP Security Pro WordPress Security Plugin to Secure & Protect WordPress
SmartCrawl Boost your PageRank and drive more traffic to your site with little effort and simple configuration tools. SmartCrawl is everything you need for fast powerful WordPress SEO that works – one-click setup, keyword auto-linking, sitemap generator, improved so
Social Warefare Provides a social media menu for users to post your site to Facebook.
Google AMP test Verify that your Mobile posts are Google AMP compliant and request indexing.
GTmetrix Analyze your site’s speed and make it faster. My go to online Website Performance test. Use this before after changes. Also provides an image optimizer.
WPtouch Pro Mobile device WordPress theme plugin. Very important to be able to have a Mobile theme and separate mobile home page tailored to the mobile user.
What is so special about setting up a commercial website?
A commercial brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes of the customer.
I use Chrome as my default browser especially when working in WordPress.
>Appearances> Additional CSS> then right click and open Chrome Inspect to see the html and CSS for each element. This is how I see what CSS is impact the look of a page. Then I can modify the CSS with the Additional CSS window.
What is a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification?Professional Website Project Management, PMP
The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) is internationally recognized. There are currently some 750K active PMP certified individuals worldwide.
First of all. establishing multiple layers of security is part of the build process for a WordPress site. Mitigating risk requires ongoing monitoring of alerts and a good backup/recovery scheme. Good performance is an ongoing effort which improves the user experience. To be sure, no one wants to spend time on a slow website. Continue reading “Website security and performance”