Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Test Functionality Environment

Optimize Search Engine Optimization Performance Files and Database

Maintain Backups Security Tracking

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Functionality Search Regex Allows you to search through database and replace data

Great for updating links or paths when migrating over

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-regex/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Functionality Broken Link Checker Tells you where and what links are broken

Sends reports whenever a link breaks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Environment Responsiveness Check your site using as many devices as you can

Use media queries to ensure a smooth experience

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Environment Browser-Testing Check your site in multiple browsers

Tools such as BrowserStack can automate this process

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

SEO Yoast Yoast is the one of the most popular solutions

Make sure your sitemap is generated

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

SEO Schema Schemas are micro data tags that tell Google exactly what your content is

https://wordpress.org/plugins/schema-creator/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

SEO Related Posts Lower your bounce rate by keeping visitors engaged

Related Posts Plugin is simple yet effective

https://wordpress.org/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

SEO Social Sharing Gain traffic from more sources

Social Sharing plugin is hassle-free and easy to set-up

https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-social-share-buttons/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Performance Speed Up Your Website Speed up your website

Improve visitor experience

Stay high in search rankings

Test your speed: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

http://wp-rocket.me/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Files and Database WP-Optimize Clean up your database

Clears out trash and unused data

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Files and Database Manually Delete Unusable Data Remove local unusable backups

Remove dummy or placeholder content

Remove unused media (especially that you don’t want indexed)

Delete sample posts, pages, content, etc.

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Backups Premium: Backup Buddy - Plethora of customization and automated

features. Also great for migrating sites.

https://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/

Free: BackupWordPress - Simple, intuitive, no setup required.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Security Keep Out Hackers Small breach = big problems

Security plugins protect against most common attacks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist

Tracking Google Analytics by Yoast Use a plugin to stay out of the theme directory

https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/