For novices: You are now reading a post on a WordPress Blog. This post explains how it is setup.
WordPress is also the CMS to manage all the static pages on the site. I manage many other WordPress site: either for personal interests or for other Kneaver related companies.
Given most Kneaver users will end up being interested to host their site I got the idea to build a model image that anyone can fire-up on a cloud hosting service like DigitalOcean. Since many tweeps are very capable and WordPress savy I think the best is to use this post to crowdsource a dream configuration.
So to keep the ball rolling here comes Kneaver’s configuration and ideas I’m using on other sites.
WordPress
– WordPress 4.1.1
– OS: CentOS 5.9. The major benefit on other flavours of Linux is extra security features like SELinux.
– Passwords are very long and complex, login names as well (they are like passwords).
– Rights are arranged so that editor and administrators rights separated. You can’t both write and configure with the same login.
– I have several free services monitoring the sites as well a script in NodeJS testing that forms are working.
– Backups are done every day and sent to other places.
– Themes are self made and offer some features as well.
– Backend services provide extra functionalities like store/shop, registration, onboarding, surveys.
Plugins
Plugins with an impact on the content.
- Bootstrap Shortcodes: Allows to use all the BootStrap look and feel in shortcodes
- Post Snippets: Create pieces of HTML and assign them to shortcodes. Very handy for buttons, CTA
- WP-Kneaver: This plugin is essentially passive but it allows remote publishing of posts via Kneaver. As a bonus several shortcodes to build pages and complex posts faster like carousels, sections based pages
- List Pages Shortcode: Introduces the [list-pages], [sibling-pages] and [child-pages] shortcodes for easily displaying a list of pages within a post or page. Vey handy for modular content design.
Plugins with an impact on the operation of the site.
- Cache: WP Super Cache, no brainer, seems to be the norm. Settings can be tricky, didn’t dig enough yet into it.
- Security: IThemes security: hide and prevent brute force login attempts.
- Security: IThemes security: Login Security Solution
- Duplicate Posts: An easy way make template of posts. I use if for #PKMChat framing posts for example
- Broken Link Checker
Plugins for Marketing, SEO, promoting, Engagement
- SEO
- Commenting: Disqus (Here I know there is a strong counter proposition with Postmatic)
- JetPack
- GA by Yoast
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Permalink Editor ( I have redirection in place on the server as well for old pages and shortcuts)
- WP to Twitter (not used)
- Wickett Twitter Widget