Finding And Fixing Bugs In Your WordPress
There are many different things that you can do to fix the “bugs” in your WordPress blog/site. The reference to “bugs” here is all the pesky little things that are keeping your site from being the best that it can be.
We have put together a list of resources that you can use to check to see where you can make improvements to your WordPress blog/site.
Improving Your WordPress Blog
- Validate MarkUp Languages
- Validate CSS
- Check For Broken Links
- Mobile Checker
- Feed Validation
- Site Load Time
- Useful WordPress Plugins
- WordPress Security Scanning
- Other Resources
1) Validate MarkUp Languages
What is a MarkUp language?
You can scan your site to see if there are any HTML, XML, or XHTML errors that need to be fixed. Please note that many themes and websites use HTML5, which means that these website validators will give false positives.
2) Validate CSS
What is CSS?
You can validate your CSS code on your WordPress blog using one of these sites.
3) Check For Broken Links
Broken links (on your site or others that you have linked to) can have a direct effect on your SEO.
4) Mobile Checker
With the introduction of tablets and mobile devices into the mainstream, it is even more important that your site be mobile friendly.
5) Feed Validation
Does your RSS feed work?
6) Site Load Time
Use these resources to check your site load time and find out different things that you can do to improve your WordPress blog.
- Pingdom
- Free Website Speed Test
- Web Page Test
- Website Optimization
- Site Report Card
- Instant Test
- Is My Blog Working?
- Page Speed Insights
7) WordPress Plugins
Using the following WordPress plugins will help you take steps to improve the performance of your WordPress blog.
8) WordPress Security Scanning
I just wrote about this topic recently, so check out the post.
9) Other Resources
Now of course this post does not include everything that you can do to improve or debug your blog, but I wanted to give you a place to start.
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