After WordPress is Installed: Site setup Print

After WordPress is installed:

1. Settings > General > Tagline: Change to client's tagline
2. Settings > General > Timezone: UTC-8 (Las Vegas, Los Angeles) > Save
3. Settings > Reading > Your homepage displays > A static page (check) > Homepage (select)
4. Settings > Reading > Search engine visibility > Discourage search engines from indexing (check) - Remember to uncheck when the site goes live
5. Settings > Permalinks > Post name (check)
   1. If E-commerce site, customize permalinks

Theme Setup:

1. Appearance > Themes > Add New > Hello Elementor > Install > Activate
2. Appearance > Themes: Delete all other themes
3. Plugins > Add New > Child Theme Configurator by Lilaea Media (before: Child Theme Generator by Serafino Corriero) > Install Now > Activate
4. Tools > Child Themes > Parent/Child
   1. 2. Select a Parent Theme > Analyze
   2. 5. Separate Stylesheet (check)
   3. 7. Customize the Child Theme...
      1. Child Theme Name: AlpernMedia Child Theme
      2. Author: MediaLyon
      3. Author Website: https://medialyon.com/
      4. Theme Description: delete all
      5. Theme Tags: delete all
      6. Copy Menus, Widgets, and other Customizer Settings... (check this box)
      7. Click to run the Configurator > Create New Child Theme
5. Appearance > Themes > <Name> Child Theme > Activate
6. Plugins > Child Theme Configurator > Deactivate > Delete

Plugin Installs:

1. Plugins > Akismet Anti-Spam and Hello Dolly > Delete
2. Plugins > Add New > Elementor > Install > Activate
3. Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin > Choose File > Elementor Pro x.x.x.zip > Install Now > Activate Plugin > Connect & Activate > Login > Activate
4. Plugins > Add New > Form Masks for Elementor
5. Plugins > Add New > Yoast or Rank Math SEO > Install > Activate
6. Plugins > Add new > Site Kit by Google > Install > (Do not Activate yet)
7. Plugins > Add New > Litespeed Cache > Install (Do not Activate yet)
8. Plugins > Add New > Wordfence Security > Install > (Do not Activate yet)

     Optional Plugins

1. Plugins > Add New > Classic Editor
2. Plugins > Add New > Custom Post Type UI
3. Plugins > Add New > Advanced Custom Fields
4. Plugins > Add New > Ele Custom Skin
5. Plugins > Add New > Element Pack Lite - Addons for Elementor
6. Plugins > Add New > ElementsKit Lite
7. Plugins > Add New > Envato Elements - Photos & Elementor Templates
8. Plugins > Add New > Essential Addons for Elementor
9. Plugins > Add New > EWWW Image Optimizer
10.  
11. Plugins > Add New > Google Tag Manager for WordPress
12. Plugins > Add New > Insert Headers and Footers
13. Plugins > Add New > Max Mega Menu (Pro Addon)
14. Plugins > Add New > Page scroll to id
15. Plugins > Add New > Premium Addons for Elementor
16. Plugins > Add New > Regenerate Thumbnails
17. Plugins > Add New > Smash Balloon Instagram Feed
18. Plugins > Add New > Tawk.to Live Chat
19. Plugins > Add New > Ultimate Member
20. Plugins > Add New > Velvet Blues Update URLs
21. Plugins > Add New > WP Affiliate Manager
22. Plugins > Add New > WP Rocket
23. Plugins > Add New > WPS Hide Login

     E-commerce Plugins

1. Plugins > Add New > Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce
2. Plugins > Add New > Cartflows
3. Plugins > Add New > Facebook for WooCommerce
4. Plugins > Add New > FiboSearch - AJAX Search for WooCommerce
5. Plugins > Add New > Mailchimp for WooCommerce
6. Plugins > Add New > WooCommerce
7. Plugins > Add New > WooCommerce Amazon Pay
8. Plugins > Add New > WooCommerce Gift Cards
9. Plugins > Add New > WooCommerce Side Cart
10. Plugins > Add New > YITH WooCommerce Compare
11. Plugins > Add New > YITH WooCommerce Wishlist

Elementor Settings:

1. Elementor > Settings > General > Disable Default Colors (check)
2. Elementor > Settings > General > Disable Default Fonts (check)
3. Elementor > Settings > Advanced > Load Font Awesome 4 Support > Yes

Adding Google reCAPTCHA:

1. Go to google reCAPTCHA, make sure you're logged in as Lyon Laz (upper right) > Select '+' (create)
   1. Label: <URL v3>
   2. reCAPTCHA type > reCAPTCHA 3 (check)
   3. Domains > + Add a domain > <URL>
   4. Accept the reCAPTCHA Terms of Service (check) > Submit
2. On the site, Elementor > Settings > Integrations > reCAPTCHA V3 > Add Site Key and Secret Key > Save Changes
3. Go to google reCAPTCHA, make sure you're logged in as Lyon Laz (upper right) > Select '+' (create)
   1. Label: <URL v2>
   2. reCAPTCHA type > reCAPTCHA 2 (check)
      1. Invisible reCAPTCHA badge (check)
   3. Domains > + Add a domain > <URL>
   4. Accept the reCAPTCHA Terms of Service (check) > Submit
4. On the site, Elementor > Settings > Integrations > reCAPTCHA V2 > Add Site Key and Secret Key > Save Changes
5. Add Google Terms to footer: This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms">Terms of Service</a> apply.

E-commerce Setup:

1. WooCommerce > Settings > Emails > New Order, Cancelled Order, Failed Order, etc. > add laz@medialyon.com and customer emails.
2. If staging-to-production, update URLs using "Velvet Blues Update URLs" and "Elementor".

Add Coming Soon Page

1. Templates > Import Templates > Choose File > Find template > Import Now
2.  
3. Pages > Add New > Title > Coming Soon > Publish (2x) > Edit with Elementor
   1. Settings (Cog) > Page Layout > Elementor Canvas > Update
   2. Add Template > My templates > Coming Soon Template > Insert
   3. Make any cosmetic changes > Update
4. Elementor > Tools > Maintenance Mode
   
   1. Choose Mode > Coming Soon
   2. Choose Template > Coming Soon Template > Save Changes

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Forms Setup:

Depending on the client, we usually just use Elementor's own "Form" widget. However, there are two things that need to be installed when creating forms:

1. Google reCAPTCHA (use Elementor)
2. Form Masks for Elementor by EduardoVillao.me

When setting up the Google reCAPTCHA for a client, you will need to log into the "mybusiness@702pros.com" account. Go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin to set up the Google reCAPTCHA keys. Copy the keys, which will usually be v3 reCAPTCHA, and go to, Elementor > Settings > Integrations.

For the "Phone" fields on forms, you will use the "Form Masks for Elementor" plugin. Whenever you add a phone field to a form, go to "Advanced" within the form field on Elementor, then "Mask Control" and select, "Phone USA". This will make it so that phone numbers will always be masked as (XXX) XXX-XXXX.

The form set up should have the following:

• All needed fields
• Google reCAPTCHA field
• On the "Email" section, change the "To" field to the client's email address.
• On the "Email" section, change the "Subject" line to "New message from "[field id="email"]". This is grabbed from the "Advanced Tab" of the "Email" field.
• On the "Email" section, change the "From Email" field to "noreply@SITE.com".
• On the "Email" section, change the "From Name" field to the client's company name.
• On the "Email" section, change the "Reply-To" field to "Email Field" or leave it as the "noreply@" email.
• On the "Email" section, remove the "Credit" from "Meta Data".