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Login Credentials

WPMUDEV

WHM

Freepik

Client Onboarding Conversation

**Recording:**  Use Supernormal to record the call.

Key Questions:

1) **Web Pages:** What pages do they want and what should each contain?

1.2) Website Title & Strapline

2) **Services & Pricing:** Details of services offered, pricing, and USPs.

3) **Domain Name:** Preferred website domain name.

3.1) Social Media URLs

4) **SEO Keywords:** Keywords for search engine optimization.

5) **Site Feel:** Descriptive words for the site’s ambiance.

6) **Narrative Style:** First or third person for website content.

7) **Email Address:** Email for site-related correspondence

8) **Earning Engine:** – does the client want any of the additional features

Gather this information to create a website that aligns with the client’s vision and objectives.

After Call

Tell Client to go buy domain and point
Tell Client to complete website design form

Ticket > add new > Templates > after kickoff call , next steps

 

Create Cpanel (account in WHM)

Check DNS checker

If domain IS pointing to us

Create cpanel using their domain

If domain IS NOT pointing to us

Create cpanel as a subdomain of soundsquares

Login to WHMCS

Go to clients > paul hoare > login as owner

Domains > soundsquares.com > manage DNS

Add A record to point to subdomain

Clone Website

Clone template site onto the cpanel you just created

Set PHP settings

PHP Settings
Php version 8
Enable the following libraries:
Memcached
Redis
Gmagick
GD
PDO
Imagick
Zip
Soap
PDO Enable
PHP Options
PHP Options
In PHP options, set:
Max execution: 300
Max input time: 60
Max input vars: 1000
Memory limit: 2048
Post maxsize: 256
Upload max filesize: 64 – they don’t need big file sizes
Cpanel Settings
Inside cpanel: Security > Allow outgoing SMTP (tick this)
Fix Lopback Requests
FIX LOOPBACK REQUESTS:
Add this to htaccess:
<LocationMatch “/”>

SecRuleRemoveByID 9011070

WordPress General Settings

Site Title
Wordpress admin email

Plugin License Keys

Divi life
Divi image box
Divi theme API key

Download Stock Images

  1. Login to Freepik Username: Password:
  2. Download around 20 images (roughly 1500px X 1000px)
  3. Rename all images (using bulk rename utility)
  4. Upload to website

 

Download Client Content

  1. Download Client’s Images
    1. Instagram: https://saveinsta.app/en1
    2. Google (just download & save)
    3. Facebook (download and save)
  2. Upload to website

Setup Brand Styles (part 1)

  1. Open the client Website Brief
  2. Open Divi Theme Customiser
    1. Set Button style (refer to website brief)
    2. Set Site title (refer to website brief)
    3. Site tagline (refer to website brief)
  3. Go to websitename.com/presets
  4. Set global colours

Setup Brand Styles (part 2)

  1. Setup global colours (continued) website.com/presets
  2. Refer to client’s website brief doc
  3. Setup global colours in Divi in Presets page
  4. Choose default presets – go to /presets
  5. On each module, choose the preset

Creating Homepage

Build Other Pages

  1. Bio/about (write with chat GPT)
  2. Watch – add their videos from youtube
  3. Teaching – use Chat GPT to design

Add Placeholder Images to Posts

  1. Edit Post Titles (use chat GPT to create relevant titles)
  2. Add images to posts (use theirs or stock. try to make them relevant if possible)

Final Check Through

  1. Assign any brand styles that aren’t already set
  2. Vary section backgrounds (use background 1/2 alternating & also use overlay background)
  3. Update images

Move website to final domain

  1. Check DNS checker to see if their domain is pointing to us
  2. If not, send email to them to tell the  to point
  3. If it is:
  4. create Cpanel in WHM
  5. Clone their site to new cpanel

Email Client

Login to Support desk

Create ticket for client

Send them email template

‘Please check your website and let us know any amendments. We will send you tutorials for how to edit also.’

Phase 2 – Going Live

This phase is done when 1 round of amendments is complete

Cpanle

Make sure website is on correct Cpanel (their chosen domain)

Guru

Create a support ticket at Guru. Replace <site name> 

Support ticket content

Hello,

Please could you disable the following rules for <insert site name>:

9012054

211540

212340

Many thanks

Sam

Smartcrawl Settings

  1. Switch off ‘theme stylesheet’
  2. Run crawler
  3. if error: SmartCrawl Pro >> Sitemaps >> Settings >> Troubleshoot sitemap

Litespeed Setup

  1. Apply Recommended preset
  2. Disable ‘load JS deferred’ (fixes smartcrawl opengraph)
  3. Litespeed > cache > Cache REST API – turn this off! (fixes fluent CRM)
  4. Add sitemap from smartcrawl to litespeed crawler
  5. Switch on crawler
  6. refresh crawler map
  7. Manually run crawler

Setup WP Toolkit

Quiccloud Setup

  1. Request domain key
  2. Link to quiccloud
  3. send optimisation request

Image Optimsation

  1. Enable ‘remove original backups’
  2. Send optimisation request (image)

Create Client Email Addresses

  1. contact@
  2. admin@
  3. Setup forwarders to their address

Setup Fluent SMTP

Settings

Outgoing Server: localhost

SMTP Port: 25

Requires Authentication: Yes

SMTPHost mail.websiteurl.tld

Select: TLS

SMTP Username: full email address as configured in cPanel > Email Accounts 

SMTP Password: password of the email address

Encryption: None

Fluent CRM Cron

Step 1

Step 2

Client Email Deliverability

Check email deliverability – fix the problems it tells you to

Dmarc

 

Setup Dmarc

Setup Dkim

Setup SPF

 

 

Dmarc 

add in cpanel zone editor.

Should look like:

_dmarc.ewaudio.co.uk.

14400

TXT

v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:contact@ewaudio.co.uk; ruf=mailto:contact@ewaudio.co.uk

 

DKIM 

should look like this:

default._domainkey.ewaudio.co.uk.

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TXT

v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA5TsQA0FA91ritVZFLxEAEmTEMudS03HAx+dCER+MmrnLrNP9mtVCEI3oEJ6CqdAXF53BdPLwnY/L3/BwyuiJoNebPIPpu3D7TOLcLIOjlTsiyNX9pUtDgzVPHL4CF90Xpz8f80tSclnzPkBWUCG+cfYuFOE6GDIvtVXIU/gyuXp+AZQGloqVnLFTQ0FqZA/ES

H2SzVAkEgMk7+RHwrQ3UW05VyOwf58Mj0TvTzPn9RwacSO8UXvLIxwJYnoaC8idB6dbpskbfxM8UsrRNhfSMH/7tnCMIyU8MRmZyRzFJ0/1uRaZwmv9x7e2tHXdn8NBUwKDoz1L4PROFNaQnBwk6wIDAQAB;

 

SPF – 

Cpanel > Zone Editor > add txt record

Should look like this:

ewaudio.co.uk.

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TXT

v=spf1 +a +mx -all

SPF

Cpanel > Zone Editor > add txt record

Should look like this:

ewaudio.co.uk.

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TXT

v=spf1 +a +mx -all

Dkim

should look like this:

default._domainkey.ewaudio.co.uk.

14400

TXT

v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA5TsQA0FA91ritVZFLxEAEmTEMudS03HAx+dCER+MmrnLrNP9mtVCEI3oEJ6CqdAXF53BdPLwnY/L3/BwyuiJoNebPIPpu3D7TOLcLIOjlTsiyNX9pUtDgzVPHL4CF90Xpz8f80tSclnzPkBWUCG+cfYuFOE6GDIvtVXIU/gyuXp+AZQGloqVnLFTQ0FqZA/ES

H2SzVAkEgMk7+RHwrQ3UW05VyOwf58Mj0TvTzPn9RwacSO8UXvLIxwJYnoaC8idB6dbpskbfxM8UsrRNhfSMH/7tnCMIyU8MRmZyRzFJ0/1uRaZwmv9x7e2tHXdn8NBUwKDoz1L4PROFNaQnBwk6wIDAQAB;

 

Re Check email deliverability