WordPress Website Development Tips -

1. WordPress Website Tips
Things You Should Do After Installing WordPress

2. Tip 0: Change the Default Image Upload
Folder
• The default installation of WordPress will store all
your images inside wp-content/uploads folder.
• You can however use a different folder or even sub-
domain on your web server for saving file uploads (
screenshot). This offers two advantages – your
image URLs become relatively shorter and second,
the size of your WordPress folder will always remain
small and manageable.
• Also deselect the option – “Organize my uploads
into month- and year-based folders.”

3. Tip 1: Remove unnecessary code from
your WordPress header
• WordPress by default adds a version number to the header of
all your blog pages.
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.5" />
• This information may prove a goldmine for WordPress hackers
as they can easily target blogs that are using the older and less
secure versions of WordPress software. To completely remove
the version number from WordPress header, add this line to
your functions.php file in the WordPress themes folder

4. Tip 2: Disable HTML in WordPress
Comments
• The comment box is WordPress is like a basic HTML editor –
people can use HTML tags like <b>, <a>, <i>, etc to highlight
certain words in their comment or add live links. If you like to
disable HTML in WordPress comments, add this to your
functions.php
add_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'wp_specialchars' );

5. Tip 3: XML Sitemaps – Change the
Building Mode
• If you using XML Sitemaps plugin in WordPress, try changing
the building mode to “manual.

6. Tip 4: Install WordPress database
backup
• The database storing all the data and settings of your
WordPress installation is your site's heart and soul.
• In case your database gets deleted from the server or if it
becomes unusable or corrupt, all your pages, posts,
comments and settings will be lost.
• Therefore it is vital that you consider database scheduled
backups and save a local copy of your files on your PC.

7. Tip 5: Edit Permalinks
• By default, the link of your posts would appear like
www.yourwebsite.com/?p=23 in which 23 is the exclusive ID
of the article.
• However, you should remember that it is not SEO optimized
permalink structure and it is important that you change it so it
becomes SEO-friendly.
• To edit the permalink structure of your WordPress blog, all
you have to do is login to your WordPress admin area, go to
Settings then Permalink.

8. Tip 6: Install All in One SEO Plugin
• All in one SEO plugin is the all in one solution for your blog’s
SEO. This plugin will optimise your WordPress blog so that
your posts and pages are indexed more efficiently by the
search engines.

9. Tip 7: Install a caching plugin
• caching plugins will help you to serve static files from your
dynamic blogs and serve them to your visitors and thus
increasing your page loading speed. There are many caching
plugins are available but I recommend to use either
W3 Total Cache or WP-Super Cachebecause they gives best
performance.

10. Tip 8: Install Anti-Spam Plugins
• Another useful plugin is Growmap Antis Spam plugin. This
plugin will add a client side generated checkbox to your
comment form asking users to confirm that they are not a
spammer. A combination of Akismet and GASP plugin will
prevent 99% of spams.

11. Reference Link
• http://www.rojish.com/25-things-to-do-after-installing-your-
wordpress-blog/
• http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/wordpress-tips-
post-installation-hacks/3931/
• http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/8-things-to-
do-after-installing-wordpress-6088978.html