How to Build a ZOX News Site in less than 60 minutes outline

What is needed ahead of time
1. Domain Name
  1. Namecheap
    1. Includes privacy
    2. usually is the cheapest
    3. good support
    4. DNS editor is easy to config
2. Hosting Recommendations
  1. Siteground
    1. use their SSL
    2. Works with RSSMasher
      1. REST API
      2. familiar with XMLRP
    3. great support
  2. bluehost
  3. namecheap hosting
    1. great support
  4. wpmudev
    1. catch a Black Friday deal
  5. CAUTION: DO NOT USE GoDaddy
3. Purchase ZOX News Theme on Themeforest
  1. Link below
4. Install Plugins
  1. Envato Market Plugin (theme auto-updater)
  2. The "Must Have" Plugins
    1. Backup solution
      1. UpDraft
      2. Snapshot Pro (WPMU)
    2. Firewall/Site Protection
      1. WordFence
      2. limit logins
      3. pw attempts
      4. Defender Pro (WPMU)
      5. login limiter
      6. first installation
    3. For client builds:
      1. Under maintenance plugin
    4. Caching
      1. Siteground Dynamic Caching
      2. Wp Rocket
      3. Hummingbird Pro (WPMU)
      4. Cloudflare Plugin
      5. APO edge server distribution
      6. best for high traffic sites
    5. SEO
      1. Yoast SEO
      2. RankMath
      3. Smartcrawl Pro (WPMU)
      4. SEOPress (Pro recommended)
      5. Bonus Tip:
      6. Meta description - write yourself
      7. Jasper
      8. Frase
      9. Meta Title:
      10. Link Bait
      11. 90% on title and images
      12. Meta Image /Facebook Image
      13. Teaser Image
      14. This is for sharing
    6. Image Compression
      1. Converter for Media
      2. Smush Pro (WPMU)
      3. Smush
      4. Shortpixel
    7. Page Speed Loading
      1. Hosting Services can help
      2. CDN distribution
      3. BunnyCDN
      4. aws-cdn-by-wpadmin
      5. Cloudflare
      6. WP Rocket
      7. Hummingbird Pro (WPMU)
      8. Lazy Loading (built in most page speed loading plugins or in paid themes)
      9. Mobile first SEO (affected by page load times)
    8. Ad Management (Ad Rotator)
      1. Ad Inserter
      2. Free works well
      3. Pro (paid version works better for split testing and ad impression rotations)
      4. Some themes have there own
      5. Pro Level:
      6. AdRotate
      7. ability to test different ad sources
      8. Impressions vs. Clicks
      9. Pro (paid version works better for split testing and ad impression rotations)
      10. AdDisplayNetwork
      11. Works great with the ZOX News Theme
      12. Adsense
      13. Drop the code and they do the rest
      14. or manual ad size positioning
    9. Google Analytics Tracking
      1. Beehive Pro (WPMU)
      2. Google Tag Manager
      3. Google Search Console
      4. Bing Webmaster Tools
      5. Other Plugins that have this option
      6. Yoast SEO
      7. SEO Press
      8. RankMath
    10. Site Management
      1. Disable Comments
      2. Classic Editor
      3. Disable Gutenberg (optional)
      4. Classic Widgets
      5. Quick Featured Images
      6. JWT Authentication for WP-API
      7. for REST API integration
      8. Needed for RSSMasher
      9. PrettyLinks
      10. JetPack ?
      11. Header Footer Code Manager
      12. CookieYes
      13. GDRP
      14. California
      15. PP/Terms
      16. Termly
      17. wp legal pages
      18. RSS Featured Image
ZOX News Theme Installation
1. Install the Theme
  1. activate with License code
2. Install Sample CONTENT
  1. DEMO content from Zox News Site
  2. RSSMasher Suggested
3. General
  1. Logo installation
  2. Look and Feel
    1. Site Skin
    2. Layout
4. Branding
  1. Color Schemes
    1. Default colors work great
    2. Make your own
      1. Adobe Color Wheel
      2. https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
    3. or Match to Client Colors
  2. Font
5. Homepage Settings
  1. Featured Post Layout
    1. Selections
    2. Tag Slug
      1. featured
      2. alternate if you want a different
      3. Add to tags in RSSMasher Schedule
  2. Body Layout
  3. Clear your cache or else deactivate the caching while building
  4. Install your Featured Posts Ad Code
    1. upper R/H side 300x250
6. Trending Posts Settings
  1. Post Days?
7. Article Settings
  1. Default settings work great
  2. Install your Article Ad Code
8. Category Pages
  1. Default works best
9. Social Media
  1. use full URL
10. Ad Management
  1. Default Toggle Parallax Leaderboard - ON
11. Footer info
  1. for copyright text
Real Data Posts - And Final Cleanup
1. Remove Unused Categories
2. Adjust Homepage widgets to the correct categories
3. Replace ZOX Image Ads with AdDisplayNetwork or your own Ad Codes
4. Choose the final template settings in the ZOX News Options
5. Turn off maintenance mode
Make it Live!
1. Start posting!
  1. Secret Weapon: Turn on the RSSMasher posting Schedules
  2. publish your own content
2. Syndication efforts
  1. Social Syndication
    1. Feedburner
    2. RSSMasher Schedule syndication
    3. Content Social Posting
      1. IFTTT
      2. Zapier/Integromat
      3. Buffer
      4. RSS Feed
      5. HootSuite
      6. RSS Feed
      7. SocialBee
      8. RSS Feed
      9. Pinterest
    4. Re-Syndication
      1. Retweets
      2. Likes
      3. Shares
      4. Comments
  2. Repurposed Content
    1. Aggregator sites
      1. Bublup
      2. RASA
      3. RSS Feed
      4. Social Feed
      5. QUUU
      6. RSS Feed
    2. Text to Video Creators
      1. Pictory.AI
      2. Lumen5
      3. Yive
    3. Text to Podcast
      1. 10 Best WordPress Podcast Plugins for 2022
      2. https://www.monsterinsights.com/best-wordpress-podcasting-plugins/
      3. Apps
      4. Lovo Ai
      5. Speechelo
      6. speechify
      7. Synthesis
      8. Spokesperson
      9. video
      10. audio
    4. blog to ebook
      1. Udemy - Free
      2. WarriorPlus - Free
    5. blog slideshow
    6. Infographs