Following the logic optimizes WordPress, here is a ticket to identify some errors, too often, I encounter on many WordPress websites...
Getting Rushed To The Day
Yes, the new version of WordPress is out! Hurry, hurry I update... I even forgot to backup my database, disable my cache plugin. Immediate Outcome: crashing your WordPress!Note that I 'm not saying that you should not update, only to take precautions, ie, save (and yes again ;), disable all plugins and finally perform the update. For my part, I am still waiting for 2 to 3 weeks before moving on later.
Case study: Currently the new version of WooCommerce just released (v2.0.3), many users using a premium WordPress theme rushed to update, result: CSS errors and HS shop. Be patient, wait for developers to update their plugins/themes, it is a matter of a few weeks.
Permalinks of Too Complex
Who has ever seen URL like "mysite.com/?p=30 " or even " mysite.com/2013/03/19/myarticle/“... It's heavy, not much less optimized SEO friendly. Without going into pure WordPress SEO, setting your permalinks will offer various solutions and more efficient.To better understand the structure and use of permalinks in WordPress, go see the article Using Permalinks.
The Structure Of My WordPress
I use everything from pages or articles? What is the difference and why use categories? It actually matters, especially if you have not taken the time to structure your website/blog. How the visitor will, he is able to navigate your site optimally, even if you do not know where to start.Assume that you are dealing with a broad topic, it decomposes naturally into several sectors/activities, categories of items are made for me.
Now imagine that I am a company that offers different services or benefits, will I create a page, a section for each of my services or will I rather use categories, tags or why not a page that includes all these benefits?
Tags In the Know What To Do More
Too many tags for not much, many users confuse tags and keywords, imagining thereby that stuff their articles tags will be beneficial for SEO. Not at all, and on the contrary, it will just create duplicate content.Tags are useful insofar as they bring more in navigation, usability and/or user experience yet we see all too often a tag associated with a single product.
Account Login = Admin
If you installed WordPress using a host unit, there is a good chance that the Administrator account is left with an "Admin" login. What a good idea to make it easier for our friendly pirates! For that matter, so let prefix our table’s wp_Remember to change this, create a new admin account with a personalized login, disconnect and reconnect with your new login finally delete the user "Admin" created by your host.
Login Ninja plugin (premium) can also monitor login attempts on your WP, you'd be surprised by the number of logs that record, banned and/or redirects. For a complete security audit of your WP, there are also Security Ninja (premium) or WP Security Scan.
Neglecting The Beacon Rel Author
Google+ is a desert, it sucks, and I do not understand it... Really? Wake up because when the Mountain View giant is launching a major social network, it has an immediate impact on our positioning and our SEO.The tag rel author is inevitable and in 2013, you cannot escape it. Still say that one of your sites and the fact that your articles appear better placed in research your friends, your account will be favored author, etc...
Plugin + Plugin + Plugins
Adding plugin impairs the speed of your site ... Well this is the reheated even if it is very real part. The slowness caused by some plugins is sometimes linked to their heaviness (eg GD star rating), loading JS (facebook, GG+), so be a choice between the benefit provided by them and the comfort felt on the navigation of fluid and fast site.Also be careful when adding untested plugins, bad/not recorded and/or incompatible with your WordPress, which can cause conflicts JS and other theme ... Also before installing a plugin, save your site and/or do local testing.
Too often, I see questions like “my theme stopped working" or “not use the drag & drop WP” is often the result of adding a new plugin. Before anything else, and to diagnose the bug, disable all plugins and reactivate them one by one to identify the culprit.
In terms of security, remember the recent flaw in a well known plugin cache, remember to check your plugins.
The Transfers Files, Themes & Plugins
Who has never been confronted with the problem: “Uploaded file Exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini" or a recalcitrant premium theme will not install.The transfer of your plugins, themes and other files is not necessarily done via your WordPress interface and much less via FTP provided by your host, there is damn effective free software called FileZilla.
It is also a good way to disable a theme or plugin that crashes your WordPress when you no longer have access to the admin.
The Popup Aggressive
There is mainly a matter of taste, the popup type " subscribe “ or ” Like me", For my part, I am back! It is intrusive and hard to get used to it.It is perfectly possible to offer a subscription to a newsletter using a form at the end of article takes far fewer resources and do not attack the visitor. Furthermore, I seem to see everywhere the same popup, Aweber, Wpsuscriber, etc...
How could I have wanted to subscribe to a blog in less than 3 seconds without being able to judge the content?
The Site All In Length
I do not know about you but it annoys me that my blog home pages long while. Arriving home on a site and enter an infinite scroll often without "back up" nothing like it to scare me away.Using the "more" tag to avoid this problem and most of the premium themes automatically manages.
The Almost Translated
How are they brought half these sites? If so, these blogs all in English which nevertheless still have buttons " Read more ", " Follow me ", " Suscribe ", etc... This is not very serious, just a few changes, usually translated language files completely your theme or your plugins.And Stats In All This?
If Jetpack may well be the case, for it is better detailed statistics through Google Analytics. A simple piece of code that is installed, no need to use a plugin for this, follow the instructions provided by Google analytics and change your template accordingly, some themes also propose to add the script via their interface.For that matter, do not forget to include your site in Google Webmaster Tools. These two tools combined allow you to monitor your site, analyze your visits/visitors and provide you with various useful optimizations.
Small selection of what I have come across the web and random that I probably forgot.
And for you, what are the major pitfalls to avoid?
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