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Use this checklist to see what you already know and what areas you might want to develop. How confident are you in doing the below tasks? [*useful to not necessary]
Navigating around the WordPress dashboard
Creating main pages for a site
Creating posts or blog content for the website
Uploading and using media in content and web pages
Resizing and editing images in WordPress
Optimising web content and meta data such as alt-tags and meta descriptions
Finding and installing a suitable theme template to manage the appearance of the website
Customising the theme using the WordPress “customise” function
Customising the theme and style using “custom CSS”
Managing the tools and settings of the website in WordPress
Installing and using plugins
Creating special and interactive content using plugins (shortcodes, H5P, animations, lightbox galleries, etc.)
Using plugins like Yoast SEO to optimise website content for search engines
Connecting websites to Google Analytics
Installing and managing contact forms
Managing users and guest bloggers/editors
Using the cPanel/server admin to manage the server side of a website
Modifying and customising the code of the WordPress theme
*Using image editing tools (such as Canva.com)
*Creating articles and written content with links
*Creating content on YouTube to embed in your website
*Using Google tools; Google My Business, Search Console, Analytics, etc.
Wire Frames
Wire Frames
When starting a website the first thing you should do is plan what you actually want the website to look like. It is all too easy to get lost search through WordPress themes then running out of gumption to go any further.
Start by doing these two things:
Research 3-5 websites in a similar field to your own planned site, and record all of the aspects of each site that you would like to use, replicate or improve upon
Create a wireframe design for the main pages of your site; this is better done as a hand drawn sketch initially, though you might choose to turn this into a digital wireframe afterwards. See the tutorials below
I personally prefer a hand drawn wire frame then try to copy the drawing into a website.
EXPORTING AND IMPORTING CONTENT FROM OTHER SITES
EXPORTING AND IMPORTING CONTENT FROM OTHER SITES
This guidance has been produced to enable you to export your content, such as any blogs, pages or media from a previous website, to a website hosted elsewhere.
If you have got a previous WordPress site, or any other blogging platform, you can export your content as an XML file, which is very similar to a Word Document. In this way you can re-use content you have already created, and merge that content with the style and theme of the website you are importing into. Below is a step by step guide on how to export content from one WordPress site to another.
Firstly; on the website you would like to export content from; log into the WordPress admin dashboard and go to Tools/Export and select whether you would like to export individual items of content, or the entire site’s content. In this example, all the content is being exported.
Download the exported XML file onto your computer.
Go to the WordPress site you would like to export to and log in to the admin dashboard. Go to Tools/Import and select where you are importing your content from. You may find that you will need to install an additional plugin to import your content, such as WordPress Importer.
Install the Importer plugin, then once installed click on the “Choose file” button and select the XML file you downloaded earlier when you exported your content.
Once you have selected the content file you want to upload, you can choose whether you want to assign the imported content to a new author with a new login or whether you want to assign the posts to an existing user, such as your regular admin account (recommended). It is also recommended that you check the box to import any file attachments.
Once you have clicked “submit” the website will now contain the imported content. One important thing to note here is that this will not include any of the theme template or style sheet as shown below. This is very useful when importing single posts or pages, however when moving the entire content of a website, you will need to install the theme or template plugin again and check that the styling is correct throughout the site.
Creating content
Creating content
Content and Style - HTML v CSS
Content and Style - HTML v CSS
Classic editor v web builder tools (Elementor, WP Bakery, etc)
Classic editor v web builder tools (Elementor, WP Bakery, etc)
Using images
Using images
Ensure you use JPEG files for photographs, and PNG files for graphics to keep the file size down. Better yet consider using a next generation file format like Webp to compress the image even further.
Ensure that your images have a description and an "alternative text" tag, to make the images more accessible for the partially sighted. This will also improve the SEO of the images.
Where possible, define the size and scale/crop the image to reduce the size of the and optimise the performance of the website.
Links
Links
Linking to other websites and to other pages on your own website is always a good idea. If you refer to a source, tool or research from else where, good blogging etiquette dictates that you should link to them.
Make sure links are well described; it is better for buttons to say "view [your product]" than to say "click here"
Use "CTRL-K" to create a hyperlink quickly over text or images
Social links and sharing tools
Social links and sharing tools
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO
Blogs, products and other content
Blogs, products and other content
product page linking to blog page and vice versa
Plugins - a tool for anything
Plugins - a tool for anything
Theme customisation
Theme customisation
Additional CSS - Custom colours for hyperlinks
Additional CSS - Custom colours for hyperlinks
Setting up Analytics
Setting up Analytics
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Google Sites
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