195 – Improve Your WordPress Site in Just 20 Minutes
Announcements
- Automattic Acquires BruteProtect
- 4.0 Custom Icons for plugins
- Akismet Gets an Overhaul
- ThemeForest Now Adds Support
Is there a plugin for that?
With more than 50,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, it’s hard to find the perfect one. Each week, I will highlight an interesting plugin form the repository.
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BruteProtect is the plugin of the week. It helps to keep hackers out of your site as well as keeping your site’s plugins and themes updated. Now that it’s been acquired by Automattic all plan levels are free!
Improve Your WordPress Site in Just 20 Minutes
Let’s face it, having a WordPress site takes time. You have to spend time regularly updating your site, creating content and maintaining your site. Today we look at a few things that we can do regularly to keep our site in tip top shape.
- Update Plugins / Core
- Try a new plugin that you heard about on a Your Website Engineer podcast
- Update your sidebar widgets
- Add category / tags to specific WordPress posts
- Start writing your next blog post
- Update your About / Resource / Contact page
- Modify / update your wording on your free giveaway button
- Write your own plugin
- Make theme modifications
- Fix Broken Links
Call To Action
What things do you spend time on each week updating / working on for your WordPress website?
Hi Dustin,
Would I replace iThemes Security with BruteProtect or use both?
Cheers,
Aug 28, 2014Anthony
AnthonyPresotto I haven’t given it much thought yet 🙂
I’d probably secure everything down with iThemes security, then add BruteProtect, the possibly disable iThemes security.
Aug 29, 2014Nice list, Dustin. Other things WordPress site owners can do is review 404 logs and fix errors, and review analytics and adjust the site as necessary (for example, changing nav menu or highlighting popular content).
Aug 29, 2014Nice list, Dustin. I thought of a couple more items. One is to check 404 logs and correct errors, through redirects or other methods. Another is to review analytics and act on them. For example, rearrange the site navigation to make it easier for people to find popular content, or write more blog posts on topics that people are interested in. Keep the valuable episodes coming!
Aug 29, 2014Thanks for this post i’ll try .
Sep 4, 2014