WordPress Website Setup and Optimization Tutorial

After building your own website using the open-source program WordPress,WordPress Website Buildingwhat settings and optimizations should you perform to make the website better suit your usage needs? Let Naiba explain the settings and optimizations needed after the website is built. If you haven't built it yet, please refer to the previous article:Basic Steps to Build a Website

Basic Website Settings

After you have built a WordPress website, log in to the WordPress Admin Dashboard. On the left, you can see the Settings button; click it to proceed with some basic settings.For detailed WordPress settings, please refer to the previous article:WordPress Beginner Tutorial 1: Admin Dashboard Settings Naiba recommends that you set the following items:

• General Site Title and Subtitle
• Discussion Comments must be manually approved
• Media Set all to 0
• Permalinks Select custom structure and enter /%postname%.html or %post_id%.html (Learn more about Permalinks）

Website Theme Settings

On the left side of the Admin Dashboard, click Appearance, then select Themes, and then choose Add.Here you can see many free WordPress Themes. You can directly click the Install button. For more articles about WordPress Themes, please refer to:2019 WordPress Theme Installation Tutorial and Recommended WordPress Theme Download SourcesAdditionally, Naiba has also shared some nice-lookingWordPress Theme, you can take a look to see if there's any you like. Note that usually, a certain amount of content is needed to support more complex Themes. When starting the website, you can directly choose a simple Theme to update articles, and then switch to a Theme with better-looking features after reaching a certain number of articles.

Recommended Website Plugins

An important reason for recommending using WordPress to build a website is that WordPress has a very rich Plugin ecosystem. Even if you completely don't understand programming and code, you canWordPress Pluginachieve many functions.For more detailed Plugin tutorials, please refer to:WordPress Plugin Installation Tutorial Must-Install Plugins Recommended by Naiba

1. All in One SEO Pack SEO optimization Plugin, now switched to Yoast SEO.
2. SMTP Email Plugin Usually, your server does not allow sending emails directly; you need to use an external Plugin to achieve this.
3. WP Database BackupDatabase Automatic Backup Plugin
4. WP Super Cache Caching Plugin, now switched toWP-Rocket。

For more fun, interesting, and useful WordPress Plugins, please refer to some articles published by Naiba:WordPress Plugin

Website Performance Optimization

In the early stages, when the website has a relatively small number of users, you only need to install one caching Plugin. When the user base grows, you can consider adding CDN services, installing database caching services, and other methods to optimize WordPress website loading speed. For performance optimization, you can refer to:WordPress Optimizationthe following article. Of course, the most direct method is to upgrade the server, which yields immediate results.

Website Content Optimization

Website content is the soul of a website. After setting the website's title and description, try not to modify them, and publish articles centered around your website's positioning. Remember to write articles that are useful to users; do not randomly copy articles, as it is meaningless.

WordPress Basic Usage Tutorial

1. WordPress Admin Dashboard Settings
2. How to Install a WordPress Theme
3. How to Install a Plugin in WordPress
4. How to Publish a Post in WordPress
5. Automatically backup WordPress websites using plugins
6. Implement security measures to prevent WordPress websites from being hacked

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