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✅ WordPress Setup & Plugin Checklist

Follow the steps below to configure your WordPress website completely and securely.

1. Download / Install WordPress

Path: filemanager > public-html > wp-config.php > paste code

2. Create robots.txt

View robots.txt content

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: /wprm_print/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: */embed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: */tag/
Disallow: */tag
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: */page/

# Allow article pages (Make sure all content is crawled)
Allow: /category/
Allow: /post/

Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.domain.com/sitemap_index.xml

3. Add Code to .htaccess

View .htaccess content

## LITESPEED UNCACHE SITEMAP
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=Cache-Control:no-cache]

# Redirect non-HTTPS or non-www to https://www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.domain.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
  Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
  Header always set X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"
  Header always set Referrer-Policy "no-referrer-when-downgrade"
  Header always set Permissions-Policy "geolocation=(), microphone=(), camera=()"
  Header always set X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"
</IfModule>

4. Scan Website Security

5. Install Plugins

    • Additional Settings

6. Create Legal Pages