Hello Wordpressers! In January we celebrate another MeetUp talking about how to take the first steps in configuring WordPress. We commented on the importance of modifying and customizing WordPress for our website and how to give every step of that personalization.
We saw from how to set the language, time zone, date and time formats, to the configuration of links and categories.
The numbers
- 59 people were targeted to the meetup.
- We had a total of 32 attendees.
The talk
If you want to review everything we saw or if you couldn't come we leave you with A link to the presentation initial settings in WordPress.
Settings > grals
- Site Language: Spanish
- Time zone: Madrid (do not take + 1 PQ When changing the time does not work well)
- Date format – (J F, Y)
- Time Format (H:I)
Settings > reading
- A static page.
- The entries page: we create one and do not need content.
- Visibility in search engines: When we are creating our page better mark that is not visible so as not to make the engines dizzy. When we have created to mark that yes. Thus we also avoid that the engines detect duplicate content that are our own pages if we have been marraneando first.
- There are also plugins for SEO control
Settings > comments
- Disable Pingbacks and trackbacks: so that it does not come out as a comment when you link to another part of the web.
- Turn off Avatars PQ consumes many resources in the web load
Settings > media
- Delete thumbnails by setting 0 (zero) in width and height.
- Disable "organize uploaded files... Month and year.»: Shortens the permanent link inside upload. Beware of disabling it if we already have the web working. It's useful to remove it if we haven't started the web yet.
Settings > Permanent links
- Option entry Name
- As optional, it is OK to add base tag and base category: So it does not come out/category/or/tag/which are the default base names but what we put here as a base
- A label should not have the same name as a category
- If we change the bases must be redirected with a plugin all entries so far PQ will continue pointing to the default and give error
Entries > categories
- change Uncategorized by editing and naming in Castilian eg "without category"
* It is recommended to delete the user that has been used to create WP and create others for use.
OUTSIDE OF WORDPRESS (WPCONFIG. PHP):
- Always make a copy of the file wpconfig before touching anything.
- Change database table prefix. We would have to do it from phpMyAdmin and from Wpconfig. There is also some plugin that does it. This minimizes the presence of hackers.
- Rename the upload file. This is not urgent.
- Fill in the ALT tag in the images for Google. There is a plugin to put the name of the photo in ALT and title.
- Security measure against ourselves: Disable the file editor of the WordPress admin panel, both appearance > editor and plugins > Editor. To do this, include in Wpconfig. php "define (' DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT ', true)".
UPDATE ORDER:
- First you should update the plugins,
- Then the themes and
- Finally, WordPress.
GRAVITY FORMS: Tool to create forms for WP. Controls SPAM very well. It's a payment.
EDD (Easy Digital downloads): Complete ECommerce solution to sell digital products in WP.
Platform Pilvia.com, same as Cdmon but no expiration. It allows us to have a site for testing.
TOPICS: Awaken, Ionmag
We also talk about some plugins on the part of the questions:
- HoneyPot Contact Form 7— Avoids spam on forms created with contact Form 7.
- To find and replace in db strings we have Better Search Replace, which is compatible with multisite. You can also clean up patches that are no longer used and obsolete topics with Wp-Sweep.
- To make the Web or parts of the same visible only to registered users My Private Site.
- Migration with All-In-One WP Migration (Full WP migration to another site, up to 600MB) and Duplicator.
- Image optimizations: EWWW.
- Clear the name of the images that we upload with Format Media titles, and put the name in ALT.
- Clean and remove images that we do not use with Media Cleaner.
- Image renaming with Media File Renamer.
- Media from FTP To link the images uploaded by FTP to the WordPress database.
- To make redirects from the WordPress Control Panel: Redirection.
- This way you can solve errors 301. It is the necessary plugin, for example, to change the category and base tags (of category and tag that comes by default). Once changed we have to use this plugin to redirect ^/category/^ A ^/category/^, for example. This would be put into tools > 301
- Beware of the plugin Event tickets Plus for sale because it gives a lot of problems.
Some photos
