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Website Launch Checklist
Kyle Gordon
2023-03-20T15:09:20-06:00
Email Notifications
URL of site being launched
(Required)
Client Name
(Required)
Client Email Address:
(Required)
Send Launch Confirmation Email To Designer:
CC additional recipients
Checklist
Update Namservers to CloudFlare
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Reason for Nameserver change skip
Updated A Record
Already pointed/hosted with Overhaulics
Add Sendgrid CNAME records and SPF entry for email sending.
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Reason for not adding Sendgrid records.
Site already has mail sending setup such as SMTP configured
Sent to IT team to add
Update WordPress, Theme, & Plugins
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Update WordPress Address and URL
(Required)
Include https
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Change default Login and Username in database
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Update A record IP address to 45.55.34.161
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Login to cPanel and run AutoSSL to issue SSL cert from LetsEncrypt
(Required)
If it wont issue, disable proxy settings for A and www CNAME within CloudFlare.
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Login to live site using new login credentials, save in password manager
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Run Better Search Replace to update from dev URL to live URL with https
(Required)
Be sure to include trailing /
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Set up theme performance settings and Save Changes
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Clear Theme caches
(Required)
Avada > Options > Performance "Reset Avada Caches"
Elementor > Tools > "Regenerate File & Data"
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Uncheck Discourage search engines from indexing this site
(Required)
Settings > Reading
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Activate Anti-Spam by CleanTalk, Defender, LiteSpeed Cache, MainWP Child, PostSMTP
(Required)
Anti-Spam by CleanTalk, Defender, LiteSpeed Cache, MainWP Child, PostSMTP
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Update PostSMTP settings to use the site domain and send test email from tester
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Disable and delete any unused plugins and themes
(Required)
Ex. If Avada form is used, Gravity Forms likely won't be in use.
Completed
To Do
Skipped
License CleanTalk
(Required)
https://cleantalk.org/my/service?action=new
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Harden site by setting up Defender
(Required)
Run malware scan, resolve all recommendations, ignore safe files
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Import latest LiteSpeed settings, link CDN, Connect to Quick.cloud, Clear Cache
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Review site in incognito window or new browser for visual issues, at the same time have console open to check for errors
(Required)
Resolve any that are spotted
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Check current form settings, make sure correct to, from, name, etc are setup and form is saving to DB
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Check robots.txt file and make sure paths are relative and do not inlude the staging URL
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Import Updraft Plus settings and re-link to Google Drive
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Add to Uptime Kuma
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Link MainWP
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
License/Re-license anything that was linked to the remp URL and not the domain
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Run an Updraft Plus backup and label it as "Launch Day"
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Situational
Reset hosting due date or begin billing.
(Required)
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Add exclude authors code to functions.php
For BL sites: add_filter( 'author_link', '__return_false' );
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Add to WHM resller account
Completed
To Do
Skipped
Notes
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