10 Common Wordpress Mistakes That Should Be Avoided

It is very true that no one is perfect in this world. Whether it is real life or Wordpress, mistakes

happens everywhere. In case of wordpress our primary focus is to set everything up and get things

running as soon as possible. In a rush, we miss some common things which may lead to a negative

effect on our website for long run. Following are the some common mistakes which should be

avoided for the sake of our website:

1. The big mistake that we all do in wordpress is not creating backup of our website. We realize the

importance of backup only when we lose our years of hardwork in a few seconds. So, make it a

habit to create backup especially when you perform an update. There are various tools available for

backup like BackWPup or BackupBuddy.

2. Page load time plays a major role in order to boost traffic to website. To make it sure that your

website gain lots of traffic without crashing you must install caching plugin. You can use this plugin

: WP Super Cache. Caching is used to prevent downtime and decrease load time of website.

3. There is no doubt in it that great content is important for website but don't forget about

optimization of webpages and website. When your blog goes live simply install a SEO plugin. I

would recommend All In One SEO plugin.

4. It is very annoying to fight with spam. But you can make it easy by installing a plugin. There is a

plugin called Akismet, get you free API key and you are done. It is very simplest way to fight

against spam.

5. Organising, Planning and Architecture of website plays a key role in website success. The major

misconception we do is that we only add categories to the main nav, which is false. Go to

appearance -> menus -> screen options -> and turn on posts and tags).

6. Keep in mind that not all websites are created for everyone. There are different themes for

different business. So, choosing wrong theme for your website can leads to traffic drop. According

to study, best place to select theme is in the Wordpress Themes Directory. If you want to purchase

it, you can try StudioPress or Themify.

7. The other common mistake we all do is not deleting the sample page or not properly delete it.

This content is not needed so it is preferable to remove it. You can see this clip about how to remove

sample page properly.

8.Site speed is very important. If your website takes too long time to load, no one will like to stay

on your website. So it is important to optimize your images that you use on wordpress site in order

to improve the speed of webpage.

9. Next mistake that we should avoided is long archives. After creating blog or website we may all

noticed that sidebar widgets is filled with tag archives, monthly archives, category archives etc. In

order to make it clear and organise you can create a custom archive page.

10. Sometimes, by mistake we forget to install some important plugin which is required to setup a

basic blog. The major plugins are:

A. Google XML Sitemap

B. Yoast SEO or All In One SEO

C. Disqus

In conclusion, if we you to improve the rankings of our website and boost traffic to it than we must

avoid the wordpress mistakes. Keep in mind that mistakes which you did in past and make it sure

that you don't repeat it in future.