Have you decided to create a website or are you going to change your current website and have you chosen to use WordPress? Good choice. WordPress is a very powerful web creation tool, simple to manage, with many possibilities and with which we can achieve professional results.
However, when starting with WordPress we must take into account a series of considerations, so that we can avoid headaches in the future and get the most out of our website.
Here we will review the most common mistakes that usually occur when we start blogging in WordPress so that we can avoid them. You will save a lot of time later.
Let's go with it!
1. - Do not choose the right template for your WordPress
Ok, as we had already written in this blog, you can change the WordPress template whenever we want. But you have to be practical and choose the theme (themes and templates are the same) of WordPress suitable from the beginning. Better to have a theme that lasts for months or years than to choose one that we have to change soon.
2.- Install too many plugins in your WordPress
Thanks to the plugins we can add new features to our WordPress of all kinds: improvements in SEO, online store, newsletter, etc. There are more than 40,000 plugins, with which we can get almost anything.
3.- Choose WordPress.com instead of WordPress.org
Although they are similar, it is not the same. WordPress.com is a service where you can host your page for free, and where you will have a WordPress already installed, very easy to configure and ready to start working. How beautiful everything, right? Well, no.
4.- Do not take care of SEO (search engine optimization) in your WordPress
It will be of little use to have the best designed page with the most interesting content if you are invisible to the rest of the users, and this can happen to you if your page is not well positioned in the search engines. That is why, since we start working with WordPress we must take care of this aspect.
5.- Do not include links to social networks
Social networks can be a great source of visits to our page, and these links will also be free. We cannot miss this.
First, if you have not already done so, create pages on the main social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) associated with your website. I do not speak here of the personal accounts you may have in these networks. Publish on these social networks the new content that you add to your website or any other information that you consider interesting.
6.- Organize badly the contents of the web
Before you start adding the contents in WordPress, stop for a moment to think about the best way to organize them.
On the one hand, you will have to define the static pages that you are going to need (who we are, services page, etc.) and the place of the web where you are going to show it, so that it is more or less visible depending on its importance.
7.- Do not avoid spam in WordPress
If in your WordPress you are going to allow users to add comments on the entries, something that is already included by default, you should take precautions to prevent this from becoming a spam sink.
8.- Do not choose the right server to host your WordPress
First, make sure that the hosting you choose is prepared to run WordPress correctly, as there are minimum and recommended requirements that must be met. Normally, so be it.
9.- Do not make backup copies and take care of security
The issue of security can not be ignored, if we do not want to have unexpected dislikes in the form of hacked web and lost work.
Security is divided into 2 parts: that of providing the hosting service where the web is hosted, as we have said in the previous point, and that we implement in our WordPress.
10. - Do not control the visits our website receives
The web analytics is an element essential when managing our website. Thanks to it we can know the number of visits we receive on our website and, above all, what elements of our website are the most consulted by users, which will help us know what things we have to promote on our website, what topics they will generate more visits, etc.