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Testing the site before going live

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Testing the site before going live

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- [Instructor] If you've been following along with this course since the beginning, you should now have a fully functional small business site set up on wordpress.com. Now, before you go telling the world about your site there's a couple of things you'd want to do first. This is your pre-launch checklist. For starters, you're going to want to click through every single link on your site just to make sure that it works as expected. This is especially important, if you've changed your domain name at any point in the development process. For instance, maybe you started developing at a generic wordpress.com URL and switched to a custom domain along the way. That has the potential to mess up your links so you just want to double check them. And then, after you've done that, make sure that any forms work. For instance, go to your contact page fill out the form and see that it works as expected. Then double check that you receive…

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