Main Things To Do After WordPress Installation

WordPress is one of the Best Platform for Website Designing, i have publish Many posts About How to Install WordPress and How to Manage your WordPress Dashboard, But our this article is about WordPress Setup, That when you install your WordPress On Custom DomainThen What Should You have to Do & what are the best and Necessary Plugins For your Website, When you have make WordPress installationYou should Do the Following Things So that you can gain More Targeted Traffic and Feed burner Subscribers to your Blog.

Things To Do After Installing WordPress

After Installing WordPress in Cpanel You should Have to Do The Following Things,

1) Select Target Installation Folder in Cpanel

First & necessary Thing in WordPress Installation is To point The Selected Directory For Your Blog And The best way is to Create new Folder and Name Them as XXXX (Your Domain Name) So You will Easily Manage Your Domain From That Domain.

2) Remove Unwanted Script’s From Your Installation Media

After Installing WordPress another thing is to Remove Unwanted Script’s from Your HTML WordPress Blog Source, SO the Essay and Best way is to add the above Script in Function.php.

remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’ ) ;
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘wlwmanifest_link’ ) ;
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘rsd_link’ ) ;
Window Writer users who didn,t use the live View feature may turn off this function in Script

3) Remove Extra Queries From URL

My Blog Name is Every1Posts.blogspot.com people may enter to my website with www & with out www Prefixes If you have XYZ.com Domain Name, if Some one enter to your website as XYZ.com/?xya are any other Keyword then they Must Enter to Your Website Just Open Your .htaccess file & add the following Script in it, So By adding this scrip it will strip all un necessary Search query parameters from all incoming requests.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !=””
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^p=.*
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^s=.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-admin.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1? [R=301,L] </IfModule>

4) Setup Add Media Button Option

I already publish My previous article about Add media, When this Conflict Occur User usually face Problem in uploading Image or Video File To Website This Problem Mainly face this Issue in WordPress 3.8 or above version So after installing you must have to Set up Add Media Button Option.

5) Increase Your WordPress Security

Increase website Security is also Main Thing In WordPress Website, If You have Good & unique Contents in Your website, Then its more chance Of hacking your website, hackers easily find Back door in Your Website, So secure Your Website More & More As you can, There are Thousands Of Best WordPress Plugins available for Website Security So Use that When Which is compatible with your website current version.

6) Remove Unwanted Plugins

WordPress is the word Of Plugins its completely Based In PHP & HTML5,when you install unnecessary plugin on your website its create additional folder, & thus in the result it will increase your Website Loading time from Cpanel Read this about Increase Your Website Speed.

7) 404 error in Google Analytic s

You will Know about How to Setup Your 404 error option in your website For error Pages, But haven,t any idea about Showing Log 404 error page, Thus adding this small scripts in _gaq.push function will Show Detail of This.

<? if (is_404()) { ?>
_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘404’, document.location.pathname + document.location.search, document.referrer, 0, true]);
<?

8) Secure your WordPress Login

Custom login for WordPress is yourdomain.com/wp-admin But its not Secure way For Website login, you can add another layer very easily just from ITheme Security plugin, So that You can Customize your login From your choice.

9) Hide your Sitemap From Search Engines

Website SiteMap is Used For indexing and Crawling your website in Search engines, But If You donot wants To Show your website SiteMaplink in search engine then just add Following script in .htaccess file, So that Your Website Pages and Post is index in search engines but Site map URL will not be shown.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<Files sitemap.xml>
Header set X-Robots-Tag “noindex”
</Files>
</IfModule>

10) Always Create New Admin & Make Subscriber

If your WordPress Username Is admin then For Security Reason Create a new Username and grant them as administrator privileges, Now login With New User name and Just make The old One Subscriber, This is Very important Step After installing WordPress for security reasons because we don’t guess the username that has administrator privileges in our WordPress installation.

11) Keep Archives In No Index Mode

This step is usually related with SEO of website but very important, Because if you select archives then in result search engine will index every post page and comment From your Blog & thus in the result Google Algorithm will Consider it Copyright issue, for this Setup All in One SEOor any other plugin Archives in No Index Mode

12) Create Custom Permalinks Structure

Always Customize your Permalinks structure because the default one is very BAD for SEO, For this Go to Options > Permalinks inside WordPress dashboard and then change your WordPress Permalink structure. SEO Friendly permalinks Structure are,
/post_id/postname

13) Check WordPress Dashboard For Error

Login To your WordPress Error and always check for errors like Broken links, WordPress version or WordPress Plugin Update So In result you will get high targeted traffic to your website

14) Disable HTML in Comments

You will See in various Websites about (Use HTML Tages for comments) like <b>, <t>, <i> Usually HTML in Comments section is not mostly like by search engines So for this add above script in functions.php File

add_filter( ‘pre_comment_content’, ‘wp_specialchars’ );

15) Choose Custom Favicon and Graphics

Choose 16×16 custom Favicon For your Website & For Apple custom Size is 144×144, And Res much Your Image for reducing its size with original Quality