Thanks to Janice M for reminding us that we don't have to stay limited with the default fonts provided in WordPress. If you want have ~400 new fonts to select from, give Google Fonts a try.
In your WordPress Dashboard go to "Plugins -> Add New" and search for "google fonts". Choose Install Now, and then "Activate plugin".
Now when you click on Settings on your WordPress Dashboard, you will see a Google Fonts option.
If you're security savvy, or follow a privacy and security blog like PrivaSecTech, you know that the most popular way hackers get into systems these days is through scripts (flash or java usually). As such, there are plugins for most browsers now, like NoScripts for Firefox or NotScripts for Chrome which block all scripts by default, unless you manually authorize them. Using such a plugin in your broswer is arguably more effect than having anti-virus installed these days!
What does your website look like when someone views it using a script blocker? Is it still functional? partially functioning? completely unusable? What about your employer's website? You could be losing a lot of visitors and/or revenue if it's not easy to read or use your website with scripts blocked, it's usually best to remove them if they're not absolutely necessary.
Install a script blocker in your browser and see how your website is affected!
The default editor in WordPress is lacking, to say the least. If you're looking to replace the default editor with a more powerful and accessible editor, you should give the CKEditor a try. There's a long list of reasons why this editor is better. If you don't like it, simply remove the CKEditor plugin!
To install it, go to Plugins in your WordPress Dashboard, choose "Add new" at the top and do a search for "CKEditor for Wordpess", choose the one from CKSource and click "Install Now". (click OK to confirm)
Once it's successfully installed, click the "Activate Plugin" link. That's it! Now when you go to "Posts -> Add New" you should notice the new, more powerful editor. Take your time and go through all of these new options you've not had before!
Sitemaps are useful for both people, as well as search engine robots (spiders) in indexing all of your website for their search engines. To make this as easy as possible, especially Google, install the WordPress plugin called Google XML Sitemaps.
Once you've installed and activated the plugin, you can look over the settings by clicking in the WordPress Dashboard under Settings -> XML Sitemap. You should be able to leave the default settings, but go through them just in case. Then notice at the top of the XML Sitemap settings page it says that the sitemap has not been generated yet. Generate it now, and you'll see that not only does it generate it for you, it notifies all of the popular search engines (Google, Bing, Ask.com etc) of your new, clean sitemap!
Whenever you change your website around, create a new page, or add several new posts, create an updated sitemap!
If you're using WordPress and call your post something like "what can you do immediately for higher rankings", WordPress will give it the URL:
http://www.example.com/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings (replace example.com with your domain name)
Once you install and activate the SEO Slugs plugin, it will remove all of the common words from the URL, such as "a", "the", "you" etc). In this example, you'd end up with:
http://www.example.com/immediately-higher-rankings which is a lot more SEO friendly!
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When you're looking at your WordPress dashboard for the first time, click on:
Settings -> Permalinks -> Custom Structure
and add /%postname%/
If you've already have posts that are published, you'll also want to install the Redirection plugin so you don't lose any of your Search Engine Optimization (SEO)!
Have you ever been to a website that just doesn't look right, and so you try a different browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc) and then it looks OK? Chances are your website developer wrote your website just for that browser. An advanced web developer will make sure your website W3 standards compliant, which means that your website will look fine no matter what browser your website visitors are using. You can test to see if your website validates by entering in your website into the W3 Validator's website.
