How To Clean Up WordPress

hey what's up guys and welcome back in
this video i'm going to show you how to
clean up all of the stock wordpress
plugins
and kind of give yourself a blank slate
so we can build a proper website
from the ground up so let's hop into my
computer screen and i'll uh i'll walk
you through the whole process
all right guys so we're here into our
wordpress dashboard and if you're unsure
how to actually get to
this screen here you're going to go up
to yourdomainname.com
wp dash admin that should take you to
a to a login page where you put in your
wordpress username and password that you
saved
from the last video and when you come in
your
your page should look something like
this it could be overwhelming
it could be intimidating but it's
important to know most of this
is really just ads and we're going to
delete most of it what happens is some
companies will actually partner up with
wordpress
and they'll become the suggested stock
plug-in they might not necessarily be
the best
but it's a way for these companies to
get leads it's a way for them to
actually you know get sales
so we're going to clean this all up
because we're going to use like four or
five plug-ins rather than this whole
mess that we have here our site's going
to run better it'll be faster
and you'll start to rank higher in
search so to start the whole process
we're going to come down over here where
it says plugins and when click on
installed
plugins it's going to bring us all the
way down here
if you scroll down now you see this is
all of our plugins right now now we're
going to deactivate and uninstall
every single thing that you see with the
exception of
akusmet i think i'm saying that right
and jetpack
everything else is going to go all right
now that we have absolutely everything
deleted except these two plugins
we're going to set up our jetpack
account now what jetpack does is jetpack
allows us to collect
to connect our hostgator hosted website
along with wordpress.com this is going
to do a couple of things
one it's going to let our posts and our
site content show up on wordpress.com
in the reader app and that should just
bring us some some organic traffic
as people are going to get suggested our
blog over time what it's also going to
do it's also going to allow us to check
our stats through the wordpress app on
our phone
this way it's an easy way to check stats
and it's very reliable it'll tell us
things each day like how many people
came through from search how many people
came in from through facebook
how many page views it's a lot of basic
stats that you're gonna see
in a very easy to read manner you know
much easier than you're gonna see
on google analytics so let's hop back
into the computer and let's get it all
set up
all right so we're going to be back in
here and we are going to click on this
big green button you should have it here
that says setup jetpack
click on there it might take a while to
load
okay so what this is going to do now i
already have a jetpack account that i'm
going to actually set up and integrate
here
if you don't it's going to ask you to
create a jetpack account and it's basic
stuff
your picture your name your email
address very very simple things
i'm just going to approve my existing
account here because i want to link this
to my actual website it's going to
authorize there
now when it takes you to this page i
pass on all of the stuff i come down
here
and right here where it says jet fact
jet pack free i click
right onto here and now it's going to
ask us a little bit about our website
and it's probably going to make us
another recommendation
now when you get here to related posts
i'm going to click on not now
because we're going to use related posts
inside of our thrive themes later on
if you're if you're not using a thrive
themes i would definitely recommend
having related posts turned on because
what that's going to do is that when
someone gets to the end of your article
they're going to see other stuff that
you've written it's going to suggest
them they're going to stay on your site
longer
that sends good signals to google to
also
raise things and raise your sight and
search so i'm going to click not now for
now
now creative mail this is again constant
contact i'm going to pass on this
because we're going to use thrive themes
later on
when it comes to the site accelerator
i'm going to turn that on because a
faster site
is a site that's better for the user and
that's also going to raise you in search
rankings
now i'm also going to recommend wp
rocket to speed up your site
but we're going to have this too because
you can't have too many site
accelerators
and once we get to this page we're done
we can leave that
okay so once we're done with setting up
jetpack we're going to set up the a
aka that we're going to set up the
anti-spam plugin
so we'll come back here to plugins
installed plugins
and again now we have jetpack set up
actually what's something i like to do
is i just like to enable auto
updates because i don't like to be
bothered with having to update things
okay so to set up our anti-spam plugin
i want to come over to here where it
says settings click up here
and now that we already have jetpack set
up we can click simply just say connect
with jetpack
and it's that simple now we've actually
have it set up because we're set up
through jetpack
now as far as the strictness of it
i like to silently discard the worst and
most pervasive spam so i never
see it and these things are horrendous
like think
every foul word you ever heard could end
up in these comments
so i don't even want to see it get rid
of it and then
as far as being gdpr compliant i just
display the privacy notice under your
comment forms fair enough
save the changes and then we should be
done so now just for good measure we're
going to go back to our installed
plugins
and we're going to make sure that
automatic updates are turned on for both
this is something that's going to go
work in the background we don't want to
have to deal with it again
now that automatic updates are on for
both plugins we have all the stock
plugins deleted we now have a blank
canvas on a good wordpress site
running correctly i'll see you in the
next video