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Publishing Task 3

 Migration:

I used a plugin to migrate my website. The plugin I used was All-In-One. A simple and effective plugin that we were introduced to in class and therefore made sense to use it. Easy to export and import files using it. A problem arose where it wouldn’t import it to the hosting site, and to work with that, one solution I was given was to use an older version of the plugin and upload it that way and it worked. I used ifastnet (the paid version of infinity free) because I had already an idea of how to use it.

URL: www.carrickrestaurantreviews.site

Theme: 

The theme I used was ‘Restaurant Recipe’. It provided a good starting point for a restaurant website and I altered to fit a restaurant review site.

Plugins:

1.       Yoast SEO: See data and site activity.

2.       Forminator: I used this to create a contact form for the contact page for people to email reviews or queries.

3.       Site Reviews: This plugin provided a summary of reviews, view all reviews posted and be able to post a review.

4.       WP Maps: This plugin was used to show the location of the restaurant the blog talks about.

5.       User Reg/login: This allows users to register, login, view their account, etc.

Code Snippets:

1.       Min Comment length: To have a decent review, even if it is a short sentence, rather than just post 1 word.

2.       Spam comment at 300 words: To make sure that is they do go over the limit, admin has to approve it in case it is spam and/or unrelated to the review.

3.       Remove admin front end: to be able to view the site without distractions and see how it looks outside of admin.

4.       Disable links from user comments: spam comments can post misleading/scam/spam links therefore blocking it avoids those issues.

5.       Remove wp version info from head and feeds: Didn’t need to see that.

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