{"id":24297,"date":"2022-02-02T14:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/wordpress-8-tips-for-working-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:55:54","slug":"wordpress-8-tips-for-working-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/wordpress-8-tips-for-working-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: 8 Tips for Working in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This article provides you with some advise on how to properly manage your WordPress website or Blog.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Get to know your dashboard!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The dashboard is the first screen you land on after you log in, and playing dashboard detective for a few minutes will help you understand how things are organized in WordPress.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The main menu is on the left\u2014from here you can create posts and pages, customize your website appearance, and manage users and settings.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Across the top, you\u2019ll see your name and a few quick links. Clicking on your name lets you preview your site. Clicking on \u201cComing Soon Active\u201d takes you to a page that organizes some of the navigation options to help you get started.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Use posts for blog content. Use pages for static content.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Posts:<\/strong> these work well for blog formats. They\u2019re easily shareable, searchable, and comment-able. You can schedule posts to go live on selected dates and times and, when they publish, they\u2019ll appear on your site in reverse chronological order (newest first).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Pages:&nbsp;<\/strong>these work well for content that won\u2019t change much, like your About page, Contact page, and sometimes a home page or portfolio pages. Pages can be displayed in your top navigation and menus.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Spend time on your titles.<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Your post and page titles help your audience make a split-second decision about whether to engage or not, and your titles show up in Google search results and shared posts. Create titles that are:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Engaging: Grab their attention.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Insightful: Let your audience know what they\u2019ll learn and what\u2019s in it for them.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Clear: Let them know what the topic is. Include relevant search terms, but don\u2019t keyword-smash, and never bait-and-switch.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Tighten up your images.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Compress: The images you upload to your website should be well under 1MB\u2014this reduced file size makes a huge difference in how fast your site will run, and how much storage space you\u2019ll end up with. It\u2019s an extra step, but it doesn\u2019t take long (just upload, compress, and download the final version). Kraken.io, ImageResize, and Optimizilla are a few of the free online tools you can use to compress images.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Resize: After you upload an image in WordPress, you can edit the image and resize it to fit whatever your page or post needs. WordPress lets you flip images, mirror them, and scale and crop.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Streamline your sidebar.<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">It can be tempting to stuff a lot of widgets into your sidebar but, if you have too many, they can end up taking away from the content you really want your visitors to engage with (sidebar dumpster fire, anyone?).<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">If your sidebar looks overloaded, go into Appearance \/ Widgets \/ Sidebar and edit them down. Ruthlessly. If your main CTA&#8217;s (calls to action) live in the sidebar, think of moving the most important one to the bottom of your content to encourage people to read all the way through. Experiment and see how streamlining affects your traffic.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Avoid plugin overload.<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Yes, there\u2019s a plugin for that. But that doesn\u2019t mean you need it. Installing too many plugins, or low-quality plugins, can slow down your website. Reliable plugins will be compatible with the latest version of WordPress and will have good reviews, support forums, and frequent updates. One plugin to consider at the beginning is for SEO. The most popular is Yoast\u2014it will make sure you\u2019re following good SEO requirements, like keyword density and meta descriptions.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">You might also want to consider a security plugin (Sucuri Security, WordFence, and Defender are popular and free) and a spam-blocking plugin (Akismet, Anti-Spam Bee).<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Add plugins one at a time to make sure they work well with others, and remember to deactivate and uninstall ones you decide you don\u2019t need.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Update to avoid possible crash.<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">When you don\u2019t update your WordPress and your theme, you open your site up to security attacks. And when you don\u2019t update your plugins, they can actually crash your site. Turn on automatic updates through Settings \/ General, or check every few days and update them manually under your WordPress dashboard.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Back up your website.<\/span><\/strong><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Backups are important. Not only are there hackers and outages out there, but there are also user errors (overwrites, 2 a.m. accidental deletes &#8211; that kind of thing). The easiest way to make sure you\u2019re backing up your website is to automate it using a plugin. Jetpack is now included in Bluehost plans, and it offers dozens of features: daily backups, a contact form, mobile theme, security, and fast image loading. BackUpWordPress, UpDraftPlus, and WordPress Backup to Dropbox are also free, or you can go for a paid plugin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with some advise on how to properly manage your WordPress website or Blog. &nbsp; Get to know your dashboard! 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