Gerrit

Update: when I search for my site in Google using the site: prefix, now there’s 5 items showing. I don’t know why suddenly it’s showing extra pages compared to last time I searched, and why it’s still not showing all my pages. I’m confused about this.

I also did a search for site:myownoldblog.wordpress.com and there almost every single blog post I ever made is indexed in Google, often with a tag displayed next to the title and with tags listed below the blog entry. Is this because it’s a blog or did that happen over a long time to get it all indexed? I don’t know. I must say it’s not always as well indexed as it should be, as sometimes multiple blog posts are displayed beneath each other instead of showing just one entry per result in Google.

Update: I checked and apparently only 2 pages (of which one is the homepage) of my site are indexed by Google right now. ??

Dear George ( @gappiah ), thanks so much for your clear reply! This was very helpful!

So as I understand, blog posts (despite the option of adding tags to your blog post with the subjects the post is about) are NOT indexed more easily than static pages? There is no need for me to replace all my static pages by blog posts?
Is there any advantage by using blog posts instead of static pages? I deliberately chose static pages so far, but maybe I could benefit more from blog entries, I’m not sure?

I will try the search to see which pages of my site Google has indexed. Is there any way to make Google index the pages it has not indexed as yet? Like a form where I could tell Google about my site so that they index the entire site?

So far, my site has used the following structure: the homepage has a menu with items such as “Traveling”, “Music”, “Football”, … Under “Football” for example, you will find a submenu “Groundhopping”. If you click that, you will find links to all static pages about football, with one static page per football game I wrote about. The names of the teams involved are always in the URL of the page.

I notice I made a typo in my initial posts. Obviously I received spam emails sent through my site’s contact form, not forum.

Anyways, this doesn’t include a risk of being hacked?

I will install an anti-spam plugin. Isn’t Akismet paid, or do I remember wrongly?

Thanks, but the number of plugins for making backups seems to be extremely large. Hence I rather trust a recommendation by others.

Is backwpup relatively easy to use? I’m a beginner…

I would like to save the backups of my website locally on my computer. It is important the entire site (all posts and pages, including photos and text, and menu) is being back-upped so that I can easily restore the site should something ever go wrong. My site is built using the free Elementor and theme Hello Elementor, I don’t know if using a pagebuilder is a dealbreaker for any back-up plugin.

Thanks for your reply. Thanks for understanding anxiety disorder can make someone worried easily (especially when I’m new to something!)

Do I understand correctly that, no matter what link I copy-paste on my website while being signed in to domain/wp-admin, no site visitor can be signed in and edit my website without knowing my username and password?

Thanks! I used CF7 and it works excellent! I struggled a bit to find out how it works, but now everything is functioning as it should! ??

Done! It isn’t such a problem for me as I’m the only person working on my site, so obviously I am the only one making updates, so having the date and time of the last edit of each page is already great for me! I just thought I’d ask about the “unknown” as maybe people using the plugin and working on their site with multiple people would worry if they don’t see who made the last edit of a page.

Thanks! Works very well, the date and time of last updates of pages is now showing! The one thing I wonder: is it normal that it says “by unknown” instead of saying who made the last update? Below the date and time of the last update is “by unknown”. It is a bit of a detail as I run my website on my own, but I still wonder if it’s normal.