7 Mistakes That Can Kill A Wordpress Blog

There is a lot of information on what you can do to enhance your wordpress blog. Also at the same time there are a few things which you should be aware of what not do with your wordpress blog if you into blogging to make money.

As a matter of fact no one would like to see their blog been hacked or taken down by any miscellaneous problem or anything which will have negative impact on your blog. Below are some of the deadly mistakes which can really kill your blog if you are one of the victim of any of these. Things may have been fine till now but if you login to any popular forum you can easily find lots of people who have faced issues just because of knowingly or unknowingly they didn't bother about the outcome in the long run.




Using Pirated Wordpress Theme

It's not difficult to find a pirated wordpress theme on torrents and download it for use but the thing to ask is are those themes really worth using. Mostly these files contain some Malware or virus in it or link to some bad network which may be hidden from you. These malwares are designed to harm your website and leech unnecessary bandwidth or cause some other kind of malfunctioning to your website. If your web hosting company notices any malware in your hosting account they terminate your account instantly and in many cases without any notice. Trying to save a few bucks can really cause a big damage to your blog. I hope you are not making this mistake.

Running Your Blog On Old Wordpress Version

It's never safe to run a blog on outdated wordpress versions as it's a delight for hackers because they know the loopholes in the old wordpress versions and can use them to harm your blog. It's always smart thing to keep your wordpress blog updated to latest version.

Ignoring Basic Wordpress Security Measures

If you are much aware on how to secure your wordpress blog then read here: Wordpress Security Tips And Hacks .

Here you will find all the information on what you need to do to secure your wordpress blog. It's important that you prevent your wordpress blog from any future mishap.

Using Unnecessary Wordpress Plugins

Don't fill up your plugins section with lots and lots of plugins which may not be useful to you. Using a plugin just because someone else is using is not really a thing to follow this applies for plugins apart from security plugins but also don't be too obsessed with collecting security plugins and installing each and every plugin blindly.

Revise your blog needs and choose your plugins according to that. More the plugins run on your blog more number of process will run which will put extra load on the server.

Making Maintenance Changes To Your Live Blog

If you making changes to your blog while it's live and you have a decent blog traffic then it really irritate your readers due to any interruption or frequent changes to page which can effect a user's navigation. There is a maintenance wordpress plugin which you can use while your blog is undergoing maintenance. Your readers will read a message that will tell them that the site is down for maintenance, please check back in few minutes, which is think is far better than a user seeing different things every time the page is refreshed.

Being Scared Of Experimenting On Your Wordpress Blog

Wordpress is one the simplest CMS platforms available. Technology is changing everyday and you cannot be stagnant with your blog. If you are new to wordpress then I would suggest you to learn more about wordpress and start applying those things which you read, this will help you in understanding wordpress better. When you will try new things with your blog it will help you only make your blog better.

Using The Default Wordpress Theme

Too lazy to use a custom theme for your blog. Well people won't be too exited either in visiting a blog where a blogger can't even use a custom theme for his blog. There are hundreds of free wordpress themes out there and it only takes few minutes to upload and apply the theme.

"A stitch in time saves nine", if you have heard of this proverb then you will very well know what this post is all about. Things may work fine initially but they will never workout in long run and considering that only this post have been compiled.