WordPress Hacks Every Blogger Should Know Personal Use Ebook

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INTRODUCTION

Your blog is key to connecting with your audience and can help you build brand awareness and reach your marketing goals. As a blogger, you want to ensure your site is functional, attractive, easy to navigate, and easy to maintain.

So, use the following WordPress hacks to achieve precisely that.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR HOMEPAGE

WordPress is designed to display your latest posts on your homepage and it’s not ideal since you are a blogger and want to use your blog to connect with your audience and market to them. But the great news is that you can change that.

Remove the latest posts from showing on your website’s homepage and create a ‘Home’ page instead. After that, add a new page and call it ‘Blog.’ This is where all your blog posts will go. This makes it easy for visitors to easily access your content, navigate your site, and find the information they need.

After creating your pages, go to your WordPress admin and click on ‘Settings’ then ‘Reading.’ Navigate to ‘Frontpage displays’ and choose ‘A static page.’ Select ‘Home’ for the front page and ‘Blog’ for the posts page.

Customize your posts page and control the number of posts that your page displays. Go back to your dashboard and click on ‘Posts’ then select your post to make any additional changes. For example, you can change the author name, add multiple authors, and so on.

PASSWORD PROTECT THE ADMIN DIRECTORY

Add an extra layer of security to your site to prevent unauthorized access and keep your website safe. Go to your WordPress admin directory and enable password protection. Login to your cPanel and scroll down to the ‘Security’ section. Select ‘Password protect directories.’ When prompted to choose the directories to protect select the /wp-admin/ folder. Next, add a username and a strong password. Save the changes.

Go to your wp-admin and try to access it to check if your changes have been implemented. You should be prompted for a username and password.

Note: if any of your installed plugins are using the Ajax functionality on your website’s front-end, adding a security layer to your admin directory will break the Ajax functionality and you will receive errors.

LIMIT LOGIN ATTEMPTS

By default, WordPress has an unlimited number of login attempts. Meaning a user can try to log into your site multiple times without having your login details and end up getting it right without being blocked. This is one of the most common cyber attacks that hackers use to get into your site and it is called Brute Force.
So, use the Login LockDown plugin to prevent it from happening.

Use it to limit the number of retries and protect your blog from hackers. Specify allowed entries and set the number of failed attempts that a user is allowed to make before their IP gets blocked.

Determine how long users are allowed to wait before trying to log in again and more.

USE CUSTOM PERMALINKS

By default, WordPress permalinks are set to ‘plain’ and this is not ideal for SEO because they often include dates or numbers at the end. So, customize your permalinks or use post names as your links instead.

Go to your WordPress admin dashboard and click on ‘Settings’ then ‘Permalinks.’ You will have several options to choose from. However, we recommend you choose ‘Post name’ and save your changes.

This allows browsers to rank your posts on the top of search engine results pages and is great for search engine optimization.

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