See also “Howto: Take a dev site live”.

Dev sites are usually configured to be less visible than a live site should be. This article provides a checklist of settings to review after a new site becomes live.

My Theme > Settings

• Enable Google Analytics
• Set favicon

Settings > General

• Site name and tagline.
• Email address.
• Open registration?
• Time zone.

Settings > Reading

• Search engine visibility! Turn the checkbox off!
• Quick check the other settings. They are probably right.

Settings > Discussion

• Review all of these.

Settings > iThemes Licensing

• Make sure your plugins and themes are licensed.

Settings > Floating Social Bar

• Configure the social media items for this site.

SEO > Dashboard

• Check, maybe set, Webmaster Tools settings. At least Google.

SEO > Titles & Metas

• Check the settings on each of the tabs. Defaults are usually OK to start with.

SEO > Social

• {{Add info here someday. I don’t know enough to have an opinion yet.}}

SEO > XML Sitemaps

• Check the box to enable XML sitemap functionality.

SEO > Permalinks

• Probably check the “Remove stop words from slugs.” That might have been done on the dev site already.