WordPress the biggest blogging platform that is available on the internet and many great websites are also powered by WordPress. WordPress is highly customizable and some websites you won’t even know are built on WordPress. First, you need to set up everything properly so that you can make the most of your WordPress website. Let’s have a look at some tips that we can use in our WordPress website or blog. WordPress offers a lot of extensions and plugins which will help you to run your WordPress website in the best way possible. Not everyone would know about all of these tricks and so sometimes we are not able to manage our websites in a proper way.
The first thing you need to do after installation is that change the username and password of your WordPress admin panel. Put a new username and password so that no one will be able to hack your website or blog.
WordPress allows you to choose any page from your website to be set as your opening page. So when a user comes to your website he will see the page that you have set. You should also have a plugin for people to search through the pages of your website in case if you have a huge website.
You can also download the JetPack plugin of WordPress which will allow you to display featured posts on the top of your blog. Make use of the power of SEO with a breadcrumb navigation.
It is true that when you load your website with more plugins it will slow down. In such cases use WP Minify, it will compress the CSS and JavaScript and will thus improve the speed of your website.
You can make use of Pagination which will allow you to add numbered links to other pages. It is common on the posts in the archives, but you can also do the same in your blog comments. If you have got more than fifty comments, breaking them into pages greatly reduces loading time and scrolling.
§ With the help of CSS you can also highlight the comments posted by the blog’s author. The next thing you can do is that, you can cleanup your comments by changing the PHP in your comments.php. This way your blog automatically separate the comments from the trackbacks. You can also disable the HTML in your comments so that you will not receive any comments from spammers.
§ You can have mobile version of your website so that you will be able to capture all the visitors who use different devices to access the web.
§ Another plugin that you can use is YARP, this will display your posts in the form of thumbnails. All of these plugins and extensions will help you run your WordPress website or blog in a smooth way.
You can also make use of threaded comments which can be set from the settings page in your WordPress admin panel. Before you could not do so and had to use third party plugins but WordPress allows you to use threaded comments.
WordPress is a great platform and with this highly customizable platform you can use that way you want to. WordPress powers some great websites. Not only is it cost effective but it is also yields us with great websites. So use these tricks or plugins and help your website be the best on the internet. Make full use of such features and plugins and see your website prosper.
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