All you need to do is either hire a WordPress developer who can help you to build a professional website in just a few days or learn yourself WordPress development and create a basic website on your own.
Having said above, it is still important to build a website that looks professional and work flawlessly.
To achieve this, you or your website developer must follow certain website development practices.
In this blog, I have shared 5 such practices that must be followed while building a WordPress website.
#1 Using reliable plugins & themes
For any WordPress website, its plugins & theme plays an important role. Wrong plugins or theme can even break your website abruptly. In other words, the collection of plugins & theme can be considered as a backbone of any WordPress website.
It is therefore, always suggested that you must hire a professional & experienced WordPress developer who knows how to choose appropriate plugins & theme for your website.
In case you are building your website yourself, here are but few important tips to choose right plugins & theme for your website.
Always pay attention to the last updated date of your plugin or theme.
Always ensure that the developer of your plugin or theme is responsive to the your queries.
While choosing an appropriate theme for your WordPress website, do make sure to check the loading speed & responsiveness of your shortlisted theme.
Checkout the reviews of existing users of the plugins & theme that you intend to use for your website development.
When I meet my clients and propose WordPress for their website development, they ask me doubtfully if WordPress is really safe & secure. My answer to them is always same “None of the open source CMS can be considered as fully safe, until your website developer do something about its security.”
Yes, it’s true that your web developer do need to take some precautions and put some additional effort to make your WordPress website secure.
Here are but few things your WordPress developer can do:
SEO (search engine optimization) is perhaps one of the best mediums to get targeted traffic on any website. Therefore, SEO must be on your priority list while developing your WordPress website.
Although, there are several ways in which you can optimize your WordPress website for search engines, here are some of the important ones:
Integrating SEO-friendly themes only.
Using best SEO plugins like Yoast.
Using appropriate tags (meta tags and header tags).
The selection of web hosting is crucial for any website development. It won’t be wrong to say “A website hosting can either make or break a website.”
Although, there are plenty of options of web hosting to choose from, the selection process must be done carefully.
It’s not necessary that all the cheap web hosting options are bad, while at the same time its not true that all the expensive web hosting options are good.
There are few things which you must consider while choosing a web hosting package or company.
You must subscribe with a web hosting company that provides you with below:
