Common WordPress Mistakes of Beginners to Avoid
Everyone make mistakes because none of us is perfect. Experience comes with making mistakes”. In the case of WordPress, there are some common mistakes that we ignored in hurry or due to lack of knowledge about wordpress like beginner do.
In this post, we will highlight some common WordPress mistakes that we see most beginners makes and need to avoid.
Not Deleting Extra Themes
Picking the perfect theme for your WordPress site can be overwhelming. You try one and then try another and then another. You install them and then forget about them.
Do yourself a favor. When you’ve settled on a theme that you are going to stick with, delete all of the extra themes that you installed.
Ignoring SEO
Good themes are made with SEO elements built in, but you should know how to control the optimization of your content.
One very useful plugin for SEO is Yoast SEO. You can use it to improve SEO of website or blog.
Understanding Permalink Structure
Setting up an SEO-friendly permalink structure is important in order to create shareable and identifiable content. This mistake mostly consider by beginners.
Forget To Add Category to Blog or Website
Wordpress allow you to file posts in specific categories. Category assist user with easy navigation to your site, and make your site searchable by creating a category cloud and let your site in search result when somebody is enter related search category. If you forget to assign your posts to the relevant category (an easy mistake to make), they are all going to end up in the lumpen “Uncategorized” pile.
Ignoring WordPress updates
Most of beginners think that their WordPress site may break while performing an update, but that’s just a myth. If your theme and plug-ins are coded properly, then your site will never break. Never forget, a newer version is created for a genuine reason. Therefore, you should always run WordPress updates.
Forget To Create Backup
We realize this mistake when we lose our years of hard work within a few seconds, and then need a backup to restore things back to normal at that time. Therefore, it is good for you, to have a manual/automatic backup of your WordPress site, especially when you’re going to perform an update.
Hopefully after avoiding making the same WordPress mistakes will make it easier for you to keep WordPress updated, will make your site less cluttered and better organized — which will save you time, may reduce server resources so your website may be a little bit faster.
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