Top 13

Wordpress Mistakes
the newbie Digital
Marketers make
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 13 Wordpress Mistakes the
newbie Digital Marketers make

1. Using poor/cheap web hosting:- You might want to

keep costs low, but using poor hosting for your
WordPress site would be like purchasing cheap fuel for
a Ferrari. Your WordPress site represents your
business, your brand, your portfolio, and so on.

2. Not providing an XML Sitemap:- Sitemaps help

Google find pages on your site that may not be
discoverable otherwise. By providing a sitemap you
help Google in the process to discover and index
relevant pages on your website.

3. Keeping Deactivated Plugins:- A deactivated

plugin can lead to your site been hacked so it is very
important to delete those plugins. Keeping deactivated
WordPress plugin slows down the website which is not
at all good for user experience.

4. Not Taking a Complete WordPress Backup:-

Taking a backup of a site is must in your website
maintenance routine. You should always take a backup
of your website.
5. Not including contact Information:- A contact form
is an absolute necessity if your WordPress site is for
professional purposes. Hence if you are not installing a
contact form then it is one of the most common
WordPress mistakes to avoid at all cost.

6. Posts covering the entire front page:- Posts

displayed in entirety on your main page makes your site
look clumsy and cluttered. Use the simple “Read More”
button inbuilt in WordPress.

7. Not Optimizing for Mobile:- If you are not making

your WordPress site mobile friendly for great user
experience, then you are again committing a mistake.

8. Working on an older version of WordPress:-

Continuing your work on older versions of WordPress
despite updates coming with their own benefits and
security necessities is one of the crucial WordPress
mistakes and thus opening the gate for hackers to hack
your WordPress website.
9. Not resizing images for web upload:- Images are
often the culprit to a slow site and you should seriously
consider preparing your images for upload by reducing
their size.

10. Ignoring WordPress Updates:- You forgot to

upgrade sites that you own resulting in security
vulnerability, and your site gets hacked. You should
turn automatic updates on.

11. Poorly developed themes:- Most predesigned

themes typically include features you’ll never use.
These features often cause conflicts with plugins and
also some of these features may even fail to work
altogether and slow down your website.

12. Keeping the Default Permalink In WordPress:-

By default, the permalink structure in WordPress comes
like this: www.abc.com/?p=123.This type of permalink
does not help to in search engine optimization. Never
forget to make changes the permalinks structure, by
going under Settings » Permalinks
13. Installing Themes and Plugins from
Untrustworthy Sources:- Installing WordPress themes
freely available on the web come with greater costs
such as lots of exploits, malicious JavaScript, and other
problems.