Your guide to a flawless WordPress website

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Your guide to a flawless WordPress website

• By Dharne and Company

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Pick your desired domain name

• It refers to the URL of your website. It is
  further split into four sub-parts
• Top Level Domain e.g. domain.com
• Root Domain e.g. domain.com
• Sub Domain e.g. sub-domain.domain.com
• Sub Directory e.g. domain.com/sub-directory

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Select a hosting provider

• Your files are stored in a server over the
  internet. You pay a host provider for this.
• Popular hosting companies are
• GoDaddy
• HostGator
• BigRock
• Siteground

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Setup the Name-server

• If your domain and hosting provider is the same
  then ignore this step.
• The purpose of the name-server is to point the
  domain to the host.
• The name-server acts as a bridge between the
  domain and the host.
• Search for the name-server details option in
  cpanel and enter the details.
• This process takes 24 to 48 hours to reflect the
  changes.

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Upload WordPress to your server

• Download WordPress setup from worpress.org and
  unzip your file using winzip.
• Install FTP software Filezilla to transfer files
  from a computer to host server.
• Enter your hostname, username and password in the
  Filezilla software.
• Next, search for a folder named public_html in
  the list of folders you see.
• Upload your wordpress unzipped folder here.

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Lets create your database

• Login into the cpanel of your hosting provider.
• Select and follow self explanatory steps in
  PHPMyAdmin.
• You have created a database, username and
  password (above).
• Using these credentials wordpress will be
  connected to the database.
• Next, using Filezilla rename the file from
  wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php
• Open the file in a text editor like notepad or
  notepad etc.
• Locate the following code
• define(DB_NAME, database_name_here)
  Replace text in bold with your database name.
• define(DB_USER, username_here) Replace
  text in bold with your username.
• define(DB_PASSWORD, password_here) Replace
  text in bold with your password.

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Lets dive into WordPress

• Go to your domain. 
• Enter the information prompted in WordPress and
  complete the installation.
• Now, you will be able to log into the admin panel
  at domain.com/wp-admin.
• You should also get a confirmation email about
  the same.

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Time to get creative

• Your next step is to select a theme.
• Choose a theme from the in-built theme gallery.
  (free to premium themes available)
• You may consider buying themes from outside
  wordpress.
• Popular choices include
• ThemeForest
• StudioPress
• WooThemes

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Tips to choose an ideal theme

• Select a theme which is fully responsive.
• It should have a clean design and look elegant.
• Should be compatible with latest version of
  wordpress.
• Have at-least a four preferably a five star
  rating.
• Should have more than 100 reviews. (personal
  preference)
• Theme must be seo optimized support structured
  data, w3c validated.
• Compatible with HTML5/CSS3/Twitter Bootstrap.

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Avoid future road-blocks

• By default, WordPress URLs are set to look
  like example.com?p232. 
• Go to Settings?Permalinks option in the admin
  panel.
• Replace the default permalink pattern to
  postname.
• This will make your URLs
• search engine friendly.
• you can customize your URLs.

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Armor your WordPress website

• Ensure your wordpress version is updated else
  your website is vulnerable to attacks.
• Always Create a backup before you hit update
  version else you will lose previous data.
• Use plugins like VaultPress, BackupBuddy etc. to
  expedite your backup process.
• Change the prefix of the database tables from the
  default wp_to something unique.
• Avoid setting the site username as admin.
•  Install security plugins available in wordpress
  like All in one WP Security 

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Create Necessary Pages

• To create pages in wordress go to Pages?Add New.
• If you want to write a blog post you should use
  the posts option.
• Few basic pages to get you started are
• Home
• About Us
• Contact Us
• Products/Services

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Leverage Browser Caching

• Each time a page is requested by an individual
  user.
• WordPress retrieves that page stored on your host
  server. 
• The process can take time which gives you an
  impression - the website is slow.
• You need to minify your website CSS and
  Javascript code for your page to load faster.
• Dont worry you wont need technical knowledge,
  you have plugins for that. 

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