WordPress Website Settings Optimization Tutorial

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

Basic Website Settings

After you have built a WordPress website, log in to the WordPress website backend. On the left, you can see the Settings button; click it to perform some basic settings.For detailed WordPress setup content, please refer to the previous article:WordPress Beginner Tutorial 1: Admin Dashboard Settings Naiba suggests you configure the following content:

• General Site Title and Subtitle
• Discussion Comments must be manually approved
• Media All set to 0
• Permalinks Select custom structure, enter /%postname%.html or %post_id%.html (Deep Dive into Permalinks）

Website Theme Settings

Click on Appearance on the left side of the backend, 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 Themes, you can take a look to see if there are any you like. Note that usually, a certain amount of article content is needed to support more complex themes. When the website first starts, you can directly choose a simple theme to update articles, and then switch to a theme with better-looking features after the number of articles reaches a certain amount.

Website Plugin Recommendations

An important reason for recommending using WordPress to build a website is that WordPress's plugin ecosystem is very rich. Even if you completely don't understand programming or code, you can alsoWordPress PluginImplement 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 PackSEO optimization plugin, has been changed to Yoast SEO.
2. SMTP Email PluginUsually, your server is not allowed to send emails directly; it needs to rely on external plugins to achieve this.
3. WP Database BackupDatabase Automatic Backup Plugin
4. WP Super Cache Caching plugin, has been changed 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 website traffic is relatively low, simply installing a caching plugin is sufficient. As user traffic increases, 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 articles below, 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 up your website's title and description, try not to change them, and publish articles centered around your website's positioning. Remember to write articles that are useful to users; avoid copying articles indiscriminately as it is meaningless.

WordPress Basic Usage Tutorial

1. WordPress backend settings
2. how to install a WordPress Theme
3. How to install plugins in WordPress
4. How to publish articles in WordPress
5. Automatically backup WordPress websites using plugins
6. Implement Security Measures to Avoid WordPress Websites Being Hacked

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