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Small Business Website DIY pt4

Small Business Website DIY pt4

Greenville Chamber of Commerce WordPress Class

Paul Williams

August 01, 2014
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  1. Plugin Maintenance Mode • Plugins -> Add New • Search

    box: Maintenance Mode • Scroll and find “Ultimate Maintenance Mode” by SeedProd. Currently version 1.5.4 • Details, Install Now, Activate Plugin • Settings ->Maintenance Mode • Enable (this is the most important one) • Feel free to edit the other fields, but they aren’t necessary. • Save Changes
  2. Testing Maintenance Mode • Upper Left -> Visit Site •

    “Maintenance Mode Active” should appear in upper right • Open Incognito Window (click the 3 short horizontal lines in upper right of Chrome, select New Incognito Window) • Should see maintenance message • ** Logged in Users can see the site, non-logged in users get the maintenance page **
  3. Plugin Sharebar • Plugins -> Add New • search for

    “Sharebar” (one word) • Find Sharebar by Monjurul Dolon (should be 1st result) • Details, Install Now, Activate Plugin • Settings -> Sharebar
  4. Configure Sharebar • Select Twitter, and sharethis • Scroll to

    bottom • With selected: Enable - Click Update • If anything else is white (back at the top) select it • scroll to bottom • With selected: Disable - Click Update
  5. Choose which share buttons you like better • Currently both

    Share plugins are active. • Decide which share buttons you prefer and disable the plugin that you don’t like. • Plugins -> Installed Plugins • Click Deactivate on the one you don’t like.
  6. Google Webmaster Tools • Visit google.com/webmasters/ • Sign In •

    Add a Site (upper right) • Fill in your URL - continue • Select Alternate Methods • Select HTML tag • Copy the tag
  7. Google Webmaster Tools • Go back to WordPress Dashboard •

    All in One SEO -> General Settings • Scroll Down to “Webmaster Verification” • Paste into Google Webmaster Tools • Remove everything but the code inside content =“ *** ”: • <meta name="google-site-verification" content= “ aR-1r_lYe-XhSse6_f4SViTkkXfZ8EMn8n9PAlvZjLU " /> • ONLY LEAVE THE CODE, remove everything else including the quotation marks
  8. Google Webmaster Tools • Scroll down , Update Options •

    Back to Webmaster Tools - Click Verify • If it says “unable to verify”, it’s a maintenance mode problem. • Disable Maintenance Mode (Settings -> Maintenance Mode, Uncheck Enable, Save Changes) • Back to Webmaster Tools - Click Verify
  9. Take some time to look through the webmaster tools. !

    ! There won’t be any data yet, it won’t be available for a few days.
  10. Menus • Appearance -> Menus • Menu Name, type :

    Main Menu • Click Create Menu • Select Automatically Add new top level pages • Select Primary Menu (this may vary based on theme) • Click Save Menu
  11. Menus • On the right - Select Pages you would

    like included • Click Add To Menu • Expand Categories section by clicking on it • Select Categories to add as menu items • Click Add To Menu • Click Save Menu
  12. Menu • Adjust positions of menu items by clicking and

    dragging (on the right side) • You can also “nest” menu items. • Try nesting something underneath another menu
  13. Menu Customization • Click the arrow to the right side

    of the word Page • In the Expanded Area you can adjust the navigation label without affecting the name of the page. • You can also change the position of the item without dragging and dropping by click “up one”, “down one”, “Under ***”, etc. • If you make changes click Save Menu
  14. More Information • YouTube - Search “WordPress Admin [FeatureName]” •

    http://cyclopslabs.com/category/wordpress/ - these slides • videos.wpbeginner.com - awesome FREE WordPress training videos