SexyFur.com Website Redesign Plan
This plan will give you the outline for installing the best software and platforms for your new website.
- CMS software (Wordpress)
- Forum Software (Groups Forums)
- Cart software (WooCommerce)
- Groups (2 platforms: Groups plugin & Groups for WooCommerce)
- Monthly Membership Payments (WooCommerce Subscriptions)
- Affiliate software (Affiliates Manager)
All of your content will be moved to Wordpress Pages and Posts. Each new art image will be it's own blog post and categorized as such but that will come after this initial setup phase.
MANDATORY: Any images (logos, social icons, page images, featured post images, artwork etc) must be named with keywords from the very start.
Example image names: adult-cartoon.png, art.png, cartoon-porn.png, furry-art.png, furries.png, pinups.png, adult.png, comic.png, neko.png, cat-girls.png, bunny-girls.png, bunnies.png, hentai.png, anthro.png, anthropomorphic-arts.png, anthro-blog.png, anthro-art.png, furries-art.png
CMS: WordpressThe first step is to install WP in your Godaddy hosting account.
When it is complete, you will receive a confirmation email. If you haven't done this before, watch the video on the right -->. At this time, set up a weekly backup schedule on your host or use the backup plugin suggested below. |
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Wordpress Settings:Before doing ANYTHING after you've installed your wordpress cms, make sure that you change the following settings:
Log into your dashboard and navigate to: Settings --> Permalinks: If you have thousands of images that are now going to live as blog posts, you might want to choose Numberic BUT If you have hundreds, you should stick with Post name for best Search Engine Optimization Click Save Changes Settings --> Media
Media files = uncheck "organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders" Click Save Changes |
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Wordpress Theme SelectionThe template looks both simple and attractive. For this reason, it can be adapted for selling different kinds of products. Thanks to the minimal layout, it ensures a user-friendly interface and advanced navigation. In such a way, visitors will be able to concentrate on the content displayed on your site.
Hosting Requirements
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Basic Wordpess Plugins
Wordpress is best paired with a few standard plugins to cover spam, SEO, WYSIWYG editors etc.
Please install the following list (*required) and complete all settings:
Log into your dashboard and navigate to:
Plugins --> Install New --> Search
Type the name of each plugin (or keyword such as 'related posts') into the search box and verify:
Install each plugin and then click Activate Plugin
Continue to complete the settings for each plugin
Please install the following list (*required) and complete all settings:
- *Akismet (basic to start)
- BackupBuddy (if not using host backup)
- *Wordpress SEO (by Yoast) WordPress SEO is not just an SEO plugin, it is the complete website optimization package. Apart from adding titles and descriptions to your articles, it also allows you to add open graph meta data, do page analysis, publish xml sitemap, and so much more.
- Any highly reviewed Related Posts plugin or this workaround to show at the bottom of each post.
- Securi (security plugin) Any website on the internet can get hacked or attacked by malicious denial of service attacks. It is better to be prepared than sorry. Sucuri offers real time alerts, website security scanner, and even offers malware removal service.
- Login Lockdown By default, a user can try to login into your site with as many incorrect attempts as they want. Most hack attempts usually rely on breaking into your site’s admin area by using password lists. Limit Login Attempts simply puts a limit on how many times a user can try to login. After a given number of login attempts it locks down the admin area for a limited time.
- Floating Social Bar Most social media plugins for WordPress come with a lot of bloat. With countless social networks that no body wants, and unnecessary scripts that slow down your website. Floating Social Bar is the best social media plugin for WordPress, it allows you to add only a handful of social networks that really matter. It is highly optimized for speed so that your social buttons don’t slow down your website.
- Adsanity AdSanity is a WordPress ad management plugin focused on ease-of-use. Adding new ads in Adsanity is very similar to adding a post. It comes with with widgets and shortcodes support to display ads, so you can display ads in sidebars, posts and pages. You can create either time-based ads (that run for a specific time) or infinite ads (that would keep running unless you remove them). It also has graphs and stats for ad views and clicks. If you’re looking to display advertisement in WordPress, then you should be using this plugin.
Log into your dashboard and navigate to:
Plugins --> Install New --> Search
Type the name of each plugin (or keyword such as 'related posts') into the search box and verify:
- Compatibility with your version of Wordpress
- Frequently updated
- Highly Reviewed (4 stars or higher)
- Lots of downloads
Install each plugin and then click Activate Plugin
Continue to complete the settings for each plugin
Shopping Cart/eCommerce
If you want to charge a monthly subscription fee, the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin is required, which adds a new subscription product type. Groups WooCommerce controls the memberships for the duration of the subscriptions.
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MembershipsUse Groups for Membership Levels
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After installing and activating *both* Groups plugin & Groups for WooCommerce, first go to Groups > Groups and create two groups – silver (or your name) and gold (or your name) – with corresponding capabilities.
Create your membership groups, with corresponding capabilites.
Create your membership groups, with corresponding capabilites.
Create your membership groups, with corresponding capabilites.
(Refer to the Groups documentation if you need help with creating Groups.)
Then go to Groups > Options and enter those two new capabilities so they can be used to restrict access to courses/lessons.
Then go to Groups > Options and enter those two new capabilities so they can be used to restrict access to courses/lessons.
Create Membership Products
You then create two WooCommerce subscription products – Silver Membership and Gold Membership – and use the Groups tab to specify what groups customers will be added to when buying the subscription product.
The Silver Membership product should add customers to the Silver Group, and the Gold Membership product should add customers to both the Silver and Gold groups.
You then create two WooCommerce subscription products – Silver Membership and Gold Membership – and use the Groups tab to specify what groups customers will be added to when buying the subscription product.
The Silver Membership product should add customers to the Silver Group, and the Gold Membership product should add customers to both the Silver and Gold groups.
The Product Data panel for the Gold product, which adds customers to the Gold and Silver groups.
Forum
Groups Forums provides a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites. Based on Groups, unlimited forums can be maintained, where every user or only members of a group are able to post and reply to topics in a forum, while forums are still visible to the public. |
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Affiliate Platform
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Our next steps...
At this point, your programmer should have the complete framework set up.
When the above steps are complete, we can move into home page design.
After that, we will focus on designing the interior pages, sidebars and footer.
Next we will instruct you on how to move content with SEO in mind.
When the above steps are complete, we can move into home page design.
After that, we will focus on designing the interior pages, sidebars and footer.
Next we will instruct you on how to move content with SEO in mind.
