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Publishing Task 3

 For CA2 I decided upon creating a web store that sells heavy metal vinyl's named 'Lucifer's Records', you can find a link to this website here - http://lucifersrecords.infinityfreeapp.com/?i=1

Migration

I migrated my website using the 'All in One WP Migration'  plugin which made migrating my entire website over to the Infinityfree hosting service quick and painless. I decided to use this plugin because I have experience using it from CA1 and because the plugin itself was free.


Theme

The theme I used for the general look of the website was the theme called 'Storefront' which was free and gave the website more of an official look to it. I changed the theme by changing its background colour from white to black.

Plugins

First plugin I used was WooCommerce, which made the website into a webstore quick and painless, the plugin came with all the features you would expect from an online store like a shop section, checkout, account and basket.


The second plugin I used was All in One SEO which gives me general tips on how to improve my posts in order to get them pushed to the public.

Thirdly I used Mail Poet to create a newsletter that would be sent out to customers when  they subscribe to the newsletter letting them know when something new is in stock.



Lastly I used WP Security which makes my website more secure.

Code Snippets

First code snippet I used was to remove comments from posts completely.

Second was a redirect code snippet but this turned out to not work properly so it is currently turned off.

Thirdly I used a code snippet to hide all categories but this also turned out to not work properly.

Lastly I used a code snippet that would show the current year on a post but like all the other code snippets, this did not work either.

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