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Wordpress is a very comfortable framework to create a site on. You automatically inherit a slew of amazing plugins which enable you to create many sorts of dynamic sites with statistics, admin site and many other benefits. But unfortunately, you also inherit many problems which come with the Wordpress installation. Just to name a few Wordpress is a heavy framework, instead of having a lean HTML/PHP site, you now have this monster you need to reign in. - I am talking optimization/speed wise Wordpress is very popular (it powers more than 30% of the internet sites as of today), so it is a target to many a hacker. Wordpress has lots of security issues as each plugin is created by a different developer and you won't know where the security breach came from. Wordpress is slow as it does lots of tasks behind the scenes (as it has lots of not-so-needed functionalities). So what are the initial steps one should do when creating a fresh wordpress site ? General Guidelines Make sure you have ...

You have a site, or want to create one. You want your site to uphold all best practices and standards so all search engines will love it, thus grant it a high location in their results. You want your site to be speedy (for your user's sake and for the search engines'). Before putting down my 2 cents, let me point you to a prior article of mine in which I have recommendations for your site upgrade Here are a list of suggestions accumulated over time. Please note that many will view these suggestions as premature optimizations thus should be implemented only after you have many users etc or else it isn't worth it - they may be right... Hosting Web Environment Don't use Shared hosting ! (Not even a reseller account) - they suck and from time to time there are shameless downtimes !!!, You should at least go for a VPS if not something better, and nowdays they aren't that expensive, several educated recommendations Vultr KnownHost Digital...

You have a site, or want to create one. You want your site to uphold all best practices and standards so all search engines will love it, thus grant it a high location in their results. You want your site to be speedy (for your user's sake and for the search engines'). Before putting down my 2 cents, let me point you to a prior article of mine in which I have recommendations for your site upgrade Here are a list of suggestions accumulated over time. Please note that many will view these suggestions as premature optimizations thus should be implemented only after you have many users etc or else it isn't worth it - they may be right... Hosting Web Environment Don't use Shared hosting ! (Not even a reseller account) - they suck and from time to time there are shameless downtimes !!!, You should at least go for a VPS if not something better, and nowdays they aren't that expensive, several educated recommendations Vultr KnownHost Digital...