Many website owners make some common, easy-to-fix mistakes with their WordPress websites.
This is the first in a series of Fix-It Friday posts, where we will
tackle some of these common mistakes and nuke them into smouldering
oblivion (which sounds a lot more final and a heck of a lot more fun
than just fixing them).
This week, we will be checking and nuking all demo data on your
website. Nuking demo data is a 15-minute job, so can be done while you
are enjoying a nice cup of tea (cough … something a bit more bracing).
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When you get a shiny new website,
often your web designer buys or downloads a theme for you that comes
filled with demo data.
This is intended to make their designs look better, or to act as
placeholders, so the designer knows roughly how many words they need to
make a section look nice on the web page.
What is supposed to happen is that your lovely copywritten words for
your website are then uploaded to your site, and all the demo data
deleted.
Your website is then launched to much celebration, champagne, and praise from your mum.
What often happens is that many web designers “forget” to delete the demo data on your website before the site launches, in their race to get your site out the door and your money in their bank.
