Building Client-Proof WordPress Websites

Posted by Payal Sarda
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Jun 4, 2020
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It feels go good when we complete the client's website development project and handled them. This movement gives a lot of satisfaction. You must be providing pixel-perfect rendering and you consider it that it performs well to get the company's success.

But, if you have given complete control to your client and they are managing their own content, it is possible that these pixels will not work perfectly after a few days or years. You will be able to find that all layouts and typography which was previously crafted beautifully are totally disturbed and rendered. Plus the accessibility of color contrasts becomes illegible.

For so many years this process or this situation was considered to be natural that takes place after the website gets old or outdated. Thus you delivered the fully functional and awesome looking website and they make it a little messy and functional.

With some creative knowledge and technical stuff, you can make sure this situation never occurs. You can avoid this situation by creating a WordPress website that will stand in the crowd little efforts is what you want to take.

Assign the roles and capabilities

One of the best and simple ways to avoid such a situation is to give limited but useful access to your client. WordPress gives you an opportunity to decide the role and capabilities to prevent the website from such problems. It is a good option to give complete administrator-level access to the website owners but at some extend it will good give the desired result because by giving administrative access you will give permission to them to change anything that they want to that can result in serious damage.

This type of access is not necessary for them as it does not include everyday tasks to do. Whereas editor account access can be provided that give required access and makes the website secure from any future damage.

If some of the users looking for more access then you can provide custom user role access. And this is enough.

For content make design decisions

Most of the developers or design does a common mistake by building an element that depends on good faith. This is the biggest reason for making a website slow down.

However, you can showcase the latest blog posts by considering the card UI layout. With so many ways you can create this feature and functionality.

You can set some things so that your client can add a description to the post with the help of the custom field. If they are adding so much text into that field then you can restrict them by showing a message they have excited the limit, etc. you can set safeguards so that it will create a post description automatically from the template. In safeguard, you can set the limit to the field of the description so that it will permit the client to add their own content without exciting the limit.

Limit Choices

Some part of WordPress is complex that cannot do by the client as it required technical knowledge. There is some alternative solution for enhancing functionality such as WordPress themes and plugins are there.

With page builder plugin one can customize the complete website without writing a technical code. They can change the website's layout and can increase their presence visually.

But some page builders are limited with the functionality they also provide limited user roles that can be helpful for a client. With the editor, they can apply changes on color and fonts.

Think twice before creating

This is the most important part. Before creating and adding any functionality on the website think twice to add functionality that is manageable by a client which will never give a problem

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