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checklists for every stage of a WordPress websites life

checklists for every stage of a WordPress websites life

WEBSITE QUALITY

Before start

  • Screenshots and PageSpeed / GTMetic old ratings

WordPress Environment

  • Comment Spam Protector
  • Client users are created
  • Contact Details entered
  • Gravity Forms Setup Properly (reply-to, errors, key, honeypot)
  • Has Plugin: Yoast SEO, Monster Insights, Login Lockdown, Security
  • WP Install hardened

Custom Theme

  • Website Match Design Completely
  • IE and Firefox & Webkit
  • Has opengraph w/ image(s)
  • Has Apple-touch-icon and favicon
  • iPhone Clickthrough
  • Tablet Clickthrough
  • Sub-pages drop down styles
  • 404 Page
  • Search AOK

Code & Quality Check, A+ Extra\’s

  • @TODOs clear, code is clean and doc
  • no js errors on use script, or css warnings
  • Has readme.txt robots.txt sitemap.xml
  • Google Insights > 85%
  • GTmetrix.com / Yslow score > A
  • remove any cache breakers like ?v=time()
  • google fonts src included and non-local usage

Hardening & Customizing WordPress

  • login-logo.png
  • /wp-content/ is writable without being 0777
  • Use SFTP when connecting
  • wp_ isn’t database prefix
  • /phpsecurity/ check
  • .HTACCESS: order allow,deny deny from all
  • .HTACCESS: IndexIgnore / , Block the include-only files
  • .HTACCESS: 5G BLACKLIST/FIREWALL

Launching

  • DNS Zone Created, wild card and www A records included
  • MX Records Added to Zone
  • Site added to apache /sites-available/
  • Site exempt from sendmail.mc
  • Verified server still sends mail from self
  • Set Primary domain in WordPress Domain Mapping
  • Add Lets Encrypt SSL, force SSL
  • After Screenshots
  • Website backed up and dev server/sql cleaned
  • Print Passwords for backup
  • Setup and install Google Analytics number
  • Optional: Twitter Card Submitted
  • Webmaster tools

WEBSITE DELETION

  • Created .zip Export / backup
  • Deleted DNS Zone
  • Ensured not on registar, if is, set forwards there
  • Deleted from Apache sudo a2dissite /etc/apache2/sites-available/{.conf}
  • Removed domain map record
  • Removed from WordPress
  • Deleted WordPress Users
  • Removed any htaccess rewrites/exceptions
  • Removed theme and upload dirs