To set up the basic WordPress foundations that any Wordpress website should have.
You need to have a WordPress blog already running, and you’ll need administrator access to it.
The steps covered in this recipe will allow you to grow your business sustainably, increasing your traffic, allowing you to install more tools, recover from security issues, and keeping your site fast as it grows.
Only once per WordPress installation.
Your webmaster, or the person responsible for web development.
Step 1 - Set up an SEO-friendly Wordpress configuration
Outcome: Yoast is installed and configured, and your website is using the ideal permalink and homepage structure.
Special instructions: If your Wordpress blog already has indexed blog posts, skip the “Set Up Permalinks” section and instead replace that section with SOP050- Migrating an existing WordPress website towards SEO-friendly URLs .
Step 2 - Add Google Tag Manager to your Site
Step 3 - Implement a backup solution
Outcome: UpdraftPlus is installed on your WordPress site and periodically generating automated backups.
Special instructions: You can skip the “Creating a Manual Backup” and the “Restoring from a Backup” sections of that SOP.
Step 4 - Speed Up your Wordpress Website
Outcome: You have gone through all the steps and you have optimized every aspect of your WordPress website covered in that SOP.