Quick WordPress Tips

As a site owner and a site designer I know how easy it is to forget regular maintenance tasks.  Consider this your reminder:

• Update your wordpress version.  Make sure you back up your site files first.  Easy to do with a back up plugin or through your host.
• Update your plugins.  Check the plugin forum or website first to see if there are any issues reported with the update.  A google search will help too.
• Check your site in all the major browsers.  IE is notorious for messing things up…
• Do you monitor your sites uptime? Might be a good idea.
• Have you made a backup lately?  If you just read this you better do it now 😉
• Are your images optimized? They should be as small as possible for better loading times.
• Is your xml sitemap updated.  That could be useful?
• Who are you pinging everytime you write a post?
• Does your site have a clear call to action?
• Is the look and functionality still credible or do you need an upgrade?

That’s a quick list of reminders for you to have the best possible wordpress site.