If you are a busy business owner, you won\u2019t want to spend lots of time each week managing your WordPress website. However, with important tasks to do, like keeping software up-to-date, making backups, dealing with online enquiries, posting on social media and fixing problems like broken links, that\u2019s easier said than done. Thankfully, there are tools and plugins that can automate these tasks, making site management easier and freeing you up to concentrate on your business. Here are five ways to automate your WordPress management.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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<\/strong>Social media has become an important channel for marketing and customer services with many companies making extensive use of it. However, with so many platforms to post to and interactions to respond to, it can become an onerous task. For most bigger organisations, the answer has been to outsource their social media activity to third-party specialists but this, obviously, comes at a price. For smaller businesses, the answer comes in the form of plugins that can make the management of posting much easier.
With a rating of 4.6 and over 40,000 active installations, the Blog2Social<\/a> plugin is one of the best tools for automating your social media tasks. Working across all the main platforms, it helps you generate a posting calendar and even optimises the times at which posts are made to achieve the highest views. Posts can also be customised with personal comments, hashtags, handles, emojis and images. From a practical perspective, it means you can do all your social media work once a week and leave the plugin to do all the posting for you. There is a free and premium version of this plugin so there is a fee for some of its more advanced features.<\/li>\r\n- Eradicate broken links
<\/strong>Broken links are bad for websites. By sending visitors to 404 error pages, you give them a poor experience that can drive them away. Search engines hate them too and can downgrade your rankings if they consider your dead links mean your website is of poor quality. At the same time, visitors are missing out on the pages you really want them to go to.
The problem for website owners is not just to keep track of all the links on your website but how to test them to see if they are still working. Manually, this would mean clicking on every link on every page, menu, sidebar, footer and image to make sure it works and, if it didn\u2019t, undertaking manual editing to put it right. That could be an exceptionally tedious task, especially for big sites. And, of course, this applies to both internal and external links.
Thankfully, this task is easily automated with the simple to use Broken Link Checker<\/a> plugin. Used on over 700,000 websites, this plugin automatically searches all the links on your site and will email you when a broken one is found. Even better, you can make any necessary changes, such as editing the URL or removing the link completely, from within the plugin\u2019s interface, saving you the trouble of trawling through the site and looking for it.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nConclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Automation is the way forward when it comes to managing your WordPress website. It makes the process simpler and more effective while removing onerous tasks from your schedule. With the tools and plugins mentioned here, you can improve security, user experience, customer service and marketing. Hopefully, you\u2019ll find some of these useful for your website.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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If you are a busy business owner, you won\u2019t want to spend lots of time each week managing your WordPress website. However, with important tasks to do, like keeping software…<\/p>\n