Managing a WordPress project
#WPNIS
MILAN DJORDJEVIĆ, CTO
WWW.SHINDIRISTUDIO.COM
A Check-List for a optimal project control
PHASE I - THE LIST
GATHERING THE DATA
RESEARCH
CREATING THE PROPOSAL
DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT
QA
PRE-LAUNCH
LAUNCH
POST LAUNCH
NEEDED INFO
- ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE
- LOGO
- DESIGN EXAMPLES
- FUNCTIONALITIES
- PAGES - LIST
- CONTENT
- IMAGES
FURTHER INFO
- SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
- EMAILS FOR FORMS
- CLIENT INFORMATION
- PAYMENT GATEWAY / MERCHANT ACCOUNT
- CPANEL / HOSTING LOGIN
- DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION INFO
- KEYWORDS FOR ON - SITE SEO
- GOOGLE ANALYTICS
- WEBMASTER TOOLS ACCESS
FURTHER INFO
- SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
- EMAILS FOR FORMS
- CLIENT INFORMATION
- PAYMENT GATEWAY / MERCHANT ACCOUNT
- CPANEL / HOSTING LOGIN
- DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION INFO
- KEYWORDS FOR ON - SITE SEO
- GOOGLE ANALYTICS
- WEBMASTER TOOLS ACCESS
PHASE II
DESIGN
- Examples
- Analyse the competitors
- Question the clients first feedback
PHASE II
FUNCTIONALITIES
- Plugins
- Interactions
- Integration
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Theme
PHASE III
CREATE A PROPOSAL
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Documentation
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Clear workflow
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Number of revisions
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Payment conditions
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Deliveries
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Deadlines
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Milestones
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There is always a possibility
you will miss something! -
Marfy is always watching!
DESIGN
1. HOMEPAGE
- (Starting concept with up to 2 revisions)
2. APPROVAL OF HOMEPAGE
OTHER PAGES / INNER PAGES
- (Starting concept with up to 2 revisions)
3. INTEGRATION OF FINAL CONTENT
- (Latest in the 2.revision)
4. APPROVAL OF WHOLE DESIGN
REVISIONS
ADDED SCOPE OF WORK
CHANGE OF ORDER
FEEDBACK LEECHING
DEVELOPMENT
WP-DEV TEMPLATE
(Pre-installed and set plugins and settings)
Some of usefull plugins:
- Image Resize Plugins
- Wordfence
-Yoast, All-in-one SEO
- XML Sitemaps
- Backup
- User role editor
- Cashing plugin
DEVELOPMENT
- Migration
- Theme installation -
- Child theme
- Content
- Styling
- Linking
- Responsive
DEVELOPMENT
- Migration
- Theme installation -
- Child theme
- Content
- Styling
- Linking
- Responsive
QA / QC
- Layout
- Links
- Validation (Forms, Output, Ease of use)
- Favicon
- Social Media Icons
- WC3
- Load Time (GTMetrix, Pingdom)
- CrossBrowser Testing
- Final Fixes / Revision
What you can miss?
- Privacy Policy
- Terms of use
- Blog / Site search Results
- 404 Page
- "Thank you" pages
- Cart
- Checkout
What can you miss?
- Privacy Policy
- Terms of use
- Blog / Site search Results
- 404 Page
- "Thank you" pages
- Cart
- Checkout
LAUNCH
- Reading settings
- Migration
- Update of plugins and theme
- (or WordPress)
- DNS A Record / Nameserver Change
- MX Record Check
LAUNCH CHECKLIST
POST - LAUNCH
- Backup
- Uptime Monitor
- Webmaster Tools
- (Sitemap and crawl submission,
- WTools Errors Resolving)
- Client Login
- Tutorials for Editing
- Broken / Duplicate links
- Strong monitoring after launch
PRAY TO WORDPRESS GOD
Questions?
