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WordPress 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   WordPress 5 Cookbook Actionable solutions to common problems when building websites with WordPress

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838986506
Length 660 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up WordPress and Customizing Settings 2. Customizing Theme Design and Layout FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Plugins and Widgets 4. Publishing Site Content with the Gutenberg Editor 5. Managing Users and Permissions 6. Setting up a Blogging and Editorial Workflow 7. WordPress as an Application Framework 8. Improving Usability and Interactivity 9. Building E-Commerce Sites with WooComerce 10. Troubleshooting WordPress 11. Handling Performance and Maintenance 12. Improving Site Security 13. Promoting and Monetizing the Site 14. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Optimizing content for search engines

In previous recipes, we configured site visibility and created a sitemap to improve the site for search engines. However, these factors will have a minor effect on search engine ranking compared to optimizing the actual content.

Search engine optimization involves using search engine-friendly titles, content lengths, keywords, images, and easy-to-understand content. So, we need to optimize these features for each post on our site.

In this recipe, we are going to use a free plugin to automatically check our content and suggest the required optimizations for each post.

Getting ready

We need to install the Yoast SEO plugin to complete this recipe. Use the following steps to install and activate...

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