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Using + Caring for Your WordPress Site

Hey there! Welcome to your new WordPress Site!

This is a collection of tutorials you can access anytime to help you in using and caring for your website. We recommend watching a few of the basic videos to orient yourself with your site.

If this is your first experience with WordPress, please know that it can be overwhelming. But if you keep using it and working with it, the more you'll feel comfortable with it. If you ever have any questions or can't find something here you need, please email us at hey@rcvane.com.

Also, if at any time you no longer want to do all this stuff yourself, we have you covered. For $45/mo we'll run all your WP backups + software updates and you'll also receive a discounted hourly rate for small changes. You can review our maintenance packages here.

Sections in this Guide to Your WordPress Site

Logging in, Backups & Security

WordPress Basics

Page Builder (Sites built after November 2018)

Search Engine Optimization & Social Media

Troubleshooting + Fixing Common Issues

Logging in, Backups & Securityย 

Be sure to watch these if you're maintaining your site yourself.

Logging in Backups Updates (Do this WEEKLY!) Security Scan Contact Form Check
Logging in

Key points:

  • Your site + /wp-admin
  • Example: http://rcvane.com/wp-admin
  • You can always use the "Lost Password?" Link on that page to reset your password via email if you've lost it. If you don't see it in your inbox, be sure to check your spam folder.
Backups

For any host except FlyWheel

For FlyWheel Sites

Updates (Do this WEEKLY!)

Security Scan

The frequency we recommend is once a month. ๐Ÿ™‚
The link I go to in the video to start the scan: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/

Contact Form Check

WordPress Basics

Introduction to the WordPress Dashboard, Adding a New Page, Changing Images, Editing Text and more.

WP Dashboard Add Photo New Page (before 11.2018) New Blog Post Add Hyperlink Edit Menu
WP Dashboard

Add Photo

New Page (before 11.2018)

New Blog Post


HIGHLY Recommended Reading: Best Practices for Using Categories & Tags

Add Hyperlink

Edit Menu

Page Builder

For sites built after November 2019, you'll edit your pages in the Page Builder.

Page Builder Intro
Page Builder Intro

Search Engine Optimization & Social Media

How to Use the SEO Settings on Your Pages and Posts, and Use Them to Set Facebook Image

Basic SEO for Pages & Posts Google Analytics Setup Facebook Preview Image
Basic SEO for Pages & Posts

Google Analytics Setup

Facebook Preview Image

Troubleshooting + Fixing Common Issues

Slow loading sites, forms not sending emails and more common issues.

Yikes! 404 Errors Slow-loading Site Contact Form Emails Not Working Another Problem?
Yikes! 404 Errors

Awesome quick video by WP Beginner on typically what you need to do in case all your pages are saying "Error, this page can't be found."

Slow-loading Site

Please note this is NOT for sites on FlyWheel. If your FlyWheel site is loading slowly, reach out to FlyWheel and let them know and they'll help you.

We didn't create this video, but this best step-by-step walkthrough we've found.

Contact Form Emails Not Working

If you're not receiving emails from your contact form (be sure you checked your spam box!) you can set up MailGun to ensure you don't miss any emails. Fair warning, it's not the easiest process, but the 2 tutorials below will help. You can also hire us to do this for you if it's too much, just reach out to - hey@rcvane.com.

We didn't create this video, but it's on point!

Additionally, here's a step-by-step tutorial to set up MailGun:

https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/mailgun-wordpress/

Another Problem?

WP Beginner has created a fantastic guide to 40 common issues in WordPress. If you're having some tech problem it's a good place to start:

  • WP Beginner, 40 Most Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Themย 
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Brand basics are fonts, colors, + professional and/or stock photos.

You can do these yourself, hire someone on Fivver, UpWork, or any other pro you know.

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