Website tips and tricks for WordPress

Alright, rounding out our WordPress tutorial we’re going to drop a few hot tips to help you get started.

Let’s dive in.

1. Make sure to personalize your homepage and spend a little more time here than on other sites. Because it’ll most likely be the most frequented page on your site, you’ll want to make sure you have all the important information and that it appears professional to make a good first impression.
2. WordPress has some great online support in the form of documentation and forums you can lean on when you get stuck. We also recommend Stack Overflow for technical questions (with WordPress, hosting, really anything web development related).
3. Make sure “For each article in a feed, show” is set to “Summary” in the “Reading” settings under “Settings” so people don’t have to scroll through each post when they get to your blog page. Instead, they’ll get the first few phrases and then have the option to “read more” to acquire the rest of the story.
4. Use images and videos to help break up the text on your pages and posts! (This post is a decent example of that though we could probably stand to include even more visuals lol).
5. Your “About Us” page is likely to be one of the most visited on your site, so be sure to tell your website’s story and mission in a compelling way here.
6. We highly recommend using the “Post name” permalink setting (on the Permalink page under “Settings”) – it’s cleaner and better for SEO than including publishing dates in your post URLs.
7. Make sure your WordPress website looks good on mobile; it’s almost guaranteed that most of your visitors will be reaching your site from their phones.
8. Include your most important pages (and maybe posts) in your header menu.
9. Disable comments on pages like “About Us” and “Contact” if you don’t require them; you can do this by modifying the page and selecting “Discussion” in the right sidebar of the editor, where you’ll find the option to enable/disable comments.
10. If your website has a sidebar, keep the widgets structured and to a minimum. You want readers to focus on the essential content of your page/post without being sidetracked.

Table of Contents

• The first step is to obtain a domain name and web hosting.
• Step 2: Installing WordPress
• Step 3: Using WordPress to Login
• Step 4: How to Use the WordPress Admin Panel
• Step 5: Putting WordPress Themes Into Place
• Step 6: How to Install WordPress Plugins
• Step 7: How to Change the Look and Feel of Your WordPress Theme
• Step 8: Adding Pages to WordPress
• Step 9: How to make a WordPress blog post
• Step 10: Creating WordPress Menus
• Step 11: Putting Your WordPress Site Online
• Step 12: How to speed up WordPress
• Step 13: Enable gzip compression for WordPress
• Step 14: How to Make Your WordPress Site More Secure
• Step 15: How to update your WordPress site
• Step 16: How do you backup your WordPress site
• Website tips and tricks for WordPress
• Now that you can build your own personal website