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Powering Almost A Quarter (i.e. 25 Percent) Of Websites, Wordpress Is Unarguably The Best Cms Worthy Of Your Consideration For Launching Your Site.
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Tips For Proper Maintenance of Your WordPress Site Submitted By – Sophia Phillips WordPress Developer At Wordprax Ltd.
Powering almost a quarter (i.e. 25 percent) of websites, WordPress is unarguably the best CMS worthy of your consideration for launching your site. INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION (Cont...) While the majority of heavy lifting gets complete with developing a WordPress powered site, you must also pay due attention to your website maintenance as it will ensure in keeping your site healthy and protected against cyber-attacks. So, let us now discuss some of the most important tips essential for the proper upkeep of your WordPress site:
The most obvious rule you should keep in mind to ensure keeping your WordPress site maintained is always to create a backup of your website, ideally on a weekly or a monthly basis. This step is especially important for WordPress users who update their website content frequently. Moreover, having a backup can help restore your site to its original form when some unlikely event occurs. For instance, in case some of your critical information from the site get incidentally lost, running the backup will recover the lost data. #Tip 1 - Create Regular Backup of Your Website
#Tip 1 - Create Regular Backup of Your Website (Cont...) If you lack the time or often forget backing up your WordPress site, you should consider using plugins such as UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration that helps in creating automatic backup of your complete website. Furthermore, the plugin stores the backup into cloud services like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, etc.
It's a well-understood fact that keeping everything on a WordPress site is essential to avert a hacker's attack. Here are a few benefits you get by updating your WordPress install: To start with, upgrading WordPress version of your site to a new one will fix all the security holes found in the site. An updated version comes loaded with several new exciting features that could contribute to the success of your site. #Tip 2 - Keep Your WordPress Version and Plugins Up-to-Date
It is needless to say that visitors like to access site offering something unique and better than the previous WP version. This clearly indicates how updating your WordPress install can help in attracting more customers. Lastly, any plugin or software requires continuously maintained to function in the right and secure manner. So, you must also consider keeping all your website plugins up-to-date. #Tip 2 - Keep Your WordPress Version and Plugins Up-to-Date (Cont...)
Of course, not focusing on creating a strong password may result in getting your site hacked. In addition, using your admin login page username as “admin” (i.e. the default WP username) also make your site more prone to vulnerabilities. That is why it is necessary that users are provided with a set of unique username and password combination that makes it difficult for hackers to break into your site. What's more? You must also manage your user roles as it will make them access only specific website areas. #Tip 3 – Managing User Accounts
Remember while your site is under maintenance or construction mode, it is imperative that you must inform your users about the same. If not, then a user might get frustrated at seeing an empty or messy page possible the one that is getting modified. Also, you wouldn't want to let visitors view a page while you are editing it or making changes to it. Thankfully, you can find some excellent plugins can help in creating professional and well-designed “maintenance” or “coming soon” page for your site. Some of those plugins worth exploring are: #Tip 4 – Setting up Maintenance Mode
WP Maintenance Mode #Tip 4 – Setting up Maintenance Mode
Coming Soon Page and Maintenance Mode #Tip 4 – Setting up Maintenance Mode (Cont...)
#Tip 4 – Setting up Maintenance Mode (Cont...) Ultimate Coming Soon Page
#Tip 4 – Setting up Maintenance Mode (Cont...) Easy Maintenance Mode
#Tip 4 – Setting up Maintenance Mode (Cont...) Ultimate Landing Page and Coming Soon Page
#Tip 4 – Setting up Maintenance Mode (Cont...) Minimal Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode
Lastly, always remember to customize your site theme according to the latest web trends and security fixes available on the Internet. You can even consider opting for WordPress Theme Customization services offered by a reputed web development company that helps meet your exact project needs. #Tip 5 – Customize Your WordPress Website Theme
#Tip 6 – Monitor Your Website Speed The speed of your website pages is critical for getting better ranks on the Google search results. This is because fast loading pages help in providing visitors with a positive and enhanced user experience. To keep a track of your website speed, it is recommended that you must view the results using "Google PageSpeed Insights". Here are a few other tactics you can follow to improve the speed of your site: • Make sure to use a WordPress theme with clean and semantic code.
#Tip 6 – Monitor Your Website Speed (cont...) • Invest in a good web hosting plan, ideally one that uses a CDN (Content Delivery Network). • Test plugins to ensure that they are not slowing down the loading time of your site. • Avoid using too many graphics or images on your website. In fact, you should compress images using the Smush.it or other tools.
#Tip 7 – Keep a Check on Your Website Security Almost every WordPress expert pay a lot of stress on making people understand the significance of reviewing their website security. With continuous increase in the rise of security threats to WordPress, it has become more important than ever to adhere to basic security guidelines as part of your regular maintenance task. To ensure safety of the site abide by the following points: • Scan your site for malware using the available maware detection tools and plugins.
#Tip 7 – Keep a Check on Your Website Security (Cont...) • Conduct a visual check of your site. Althouh, it's not feasible to review each and every page, but try to test all the pages containing critical user information.
Your WordPress website database can gather a lot of junk over time, which can degrade your site's performance. So, to ensure that your database will run smoothly and efficiently, you must keep the database clean and optimized. This can be achieved with plugins like WP-Optimize, Clean Images, WP-DB Manager, etc. Invest in maintaining the security of your WordPress site using services such as Sucuri or others. Avoid adding unwanted plugins, instead, install only the relevant plugins that help keep a WP site properly maintained. Some Other Recommendations
Make sure your WordPress site works well on all the devices and platforms. Basically, you must test the device and browser compatibility of the website. Check your site for “404 error pages”. This is a page that a browser return when search engine crawlers cannot find any page within your site. You must also check whether the forms on your website are fully functional or not. Some Other Recommendations (Cont...)
Final Words Bear in mind that just completing the entire task of developing a WordPress site is not difficult. But apart from focusing on improving the development part, you must also take into consideration tips that help in maintaining your website. Reading this article will provide you with necessary steps that you must follow to ensure proper website maintenance.
