Wordpress Checklist

Setting

• Setting up Permalinks
• Activate Askimet
• Deactivate comments
• Add a Gravatar
• Change default category from “Uncategorized” to something else (e.g. “News”)
• Create archive-, tag-, and category-specific layouts/pages
• Change the author of all posts, pages, and CPTs to be authored by the Client’s User(s), not your own Administrator User
• Delete unnecessary / inactive users, as appropriate
• Make sure all WordPress default posts, pages, and comments are trashed or permanently deleted
• delete unnecessary Widgets from the Inactive Widgets area
• Verify General Settings are as desired (e.g. www or non-www, new user registration, Timezone, etc.)
• Delete WordPress default links and link categories

SEO

• XML Sitemap support – submit your sitemap to Google and Bing and improve your SEO

 Ex: All in One SEO Pack, YOAST

• Google Analytics support
• Support for Custom Post Types on SEO
• Automatically optimizes your titles for Google and other search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
• For beginners, you do not even have to look at the options, and it works out-of -the-box . Just install.
• Install Analytics

 - If your website is running, it is necessary to know what your visitors interested and where they come from. To do this you need a software. The best known isGoogle Analytics.

• Create a robots.txt file
• Turn on WordPress’ “visible to search engines” setting