For all the wordpress
site owners out there, including yourself, you must have been using WordPress
CMS for some time now and must be very familiar with managing your WP driven
website in and out. As per the official figures of WordPress there are roughly
60 million sites floating on the web that are powered by WordPress and still
growing. There are some situations that many of the WP owners find themselves
into repeatedly and every time it pinches them heavily. This article largely
talks about these recurring mistakes, situations being created because of these
silly mistakes and how these could be avoided.
These mistakes are so
easy to make, doesn’t look a big deal but are a must to avoid. Our effort is to
bring these situations in forefront to ensure that you can keep them at bay and
your wordpress development effort pays you the complete dividend.
Admin Username as ‘admin’
This is the most
common mistake of all and has been into practice since years. By default the WordPress
administrator’s console has the username ‘admin’ and this is created automatically
upon installation. Hackers looking for their prey do not take time in looking
for this very predictable username and gives them an open invitation to conduct
their act. If such a username is combined with a loosely written password then
the hacker would thank you for making their tasks a cakewalk. Solution is again
simple, ask your wordpress development company to change the default username
to something that you want and have a strong
Data Loss/ Virus
Attack
What can be more basic
than taking a back up of your WordPress website but the fact of the matter is that
a lot of WP owners forget doing even this. They might take lot of precautions
of safety and implement plugins based secure system but in technology, you can
never be too sure. As said, hope for the best but prepare for the worst, they
manage to hope for the best by take precautionary steps but dont prepare for
the worst in form of a backup. It takes quality effort and time to prepare site’s
data which could be in form of product description or ever increasing blogs, a
sudden loss could result in backdrop by several years, loss of business &
reputation. The solution is very simple, take a periodic backup of your site
either manually or automatically using available plugins at preset intervals.
Nothing comes for Free
and not even WordPress Themes
Free themes are always
attractive but someone has said it rightly, there are no free lunches in this
world. These free themes bring alongside a range of problems and saving few
dollars ($$) upfront might prove really costly later on. Such free downloaded
theme are often unstable, sometimes contain malicious code, back links to the
original hacker of the theme, no authentic support and are not updated.
We have discussed the
situation and now let’s focus on the solution, which is again simple. It’s your
business and your web identity, go on spend some money to buy a premium theme
that can lay a strong foundation going forward. Also remember to purchase them
from a reputed company like Template Monster, WooThemes etc which are into
operation from years.
Poor SEO Results – XML
sitemap missing
You made a beautiful wordress
site, use best-in-class PSD to WordPress conversion companies and are putting
decent effort to achieve good SEO results, but results somewhat poor than what
as anticipated. Another silly mistake that is found to exist is a missing XML
sitemap.
An XML sitemap can be
visualized as a table of content in a book which guides the Google crawlers to all
the pages that you want it to index, informs it about how often you want to
re-index the page and let it know whenever a change is introduced. Even for
WordPress sites not having an XML sitemap, Google crawlers still crawl them but
in this event there are chances that some pages are missed. Solution is to
ensure that an XML sitemap should also be implemented.
Poor
Categorization and Tagging
Nothing can be sillier
than a poor utilization of tags and categories. If used well, categories and
tags usually come handy and play a role in increasing traffic and user engagement.
Wise use of categorization and tagging of your posts will not only facilitate
an easy navigation for your online visitors as they’ll be able to find what
they want but will also do a lot of good to your onpage SEO. A simple way of implementing
this is to avoid multiple tags and categories to your blog. Recommendation
would be to link each post to a single category and only relevant tags to be
added.
This
is not an exhaustive list of common situations that arise due to silly mistakes
but certainly some of the frequent and most observed mistakes found. Take care
of them and enjoy your online experience.
