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Checklist for when a Joomla! website goes live:

Joomla!/Extensions

  • Unpublish or uninstalled all unused extensions?
  • Joomla and all extensions are up-to-date?
  • Uninstalled all unused templates?
  • ACL Manager installed and configured?

Joomla! configuration

  • ReCaptcha private/public keys?
  • Default Captcha set?
  • Error reporting disabled?
  • General email address setup?
  • Mail Settings setup and SMTP server setup?
  • Mass Mail disabled?
  • Server timezone set correctly?
  • Session settings setup?
  • Template "Preview Module Positions" disabled?
  • Feed Email Address to "No Email"?

Users

  • Removed all unused Users from User Manager?
  • Removed all unused User Groups?
  • Allow User Registration: no (if necessary)?
  • Password complexity setup?

Content

  • Removed all unused content?
  • Removed all unused files and images, like default Joomla images?
  • All Lorem Ipsum / dummy content is removed?
  • Removed all deleted content (empty trash articles, categories, menu items, modules)?
  • Replaced development URLs in the database with production URLs?
  • Robots.txt setup?
  • Favicon installed (generate/test)?
  • Mobile icons installed (generate/test)?
  • URL redirects from old site to new site setup?
  • Added a 404 page?
  • Optimized images?
  • Unpublished unused search plugins, also the smart search plugin?
  • Are the search plugins in the correct order?
  • Clear smart search indexes and rebuild them (if smart search is used)?
  • All webforms have email handling and emailadresses setup correctly?
  • Cleaned form submissions?
  • Cleaned all test newsletters?

Layout

  • Website tested in all major browsers (OSX: Safari, Chrome, Firefox. Windows: IE, Edge, Chrome, Firefox.)
  • Mobile template present and tested?

.htaccess

  • Redirect non-www to www setup in .htaccess?
  • Redirect non-ssl to ssl setup in .htaccess?

Security

  • Admin Tools Pro / jHackGuard / AdminExile installed and configured?
  • Prevent blocking own IP-addresses
  • Block access to /administrator with admin secret URL parameter or use IP whitelist for /administrator

JCE Editor

  • optimized profile added/configured?
  • Joomla! - editors-xtd plugins unpublished?

OSMap

  • Sitemap created for all menus?
  • Add line to .htaccess to show OSXMAP sitemap as sitemap.xml? ([example] (https://gist.github.com/hans2103/aec679d235ff76e33822)) Carefull: use a different solution for multilingual sites.
  • XML Sitemap added to Google Webmaster Tools?

HTTPS

  • Certificate setup (if necessary)?
  • Activated HTTPS (if necessary)?

Optimisation / SEO

  • Search-engine friendly URLs installed and configured?
  • Mootools enabler/disabler active? (Mootools Enabler/Disabler)
  • Caching setup?
  • Cleared cache/tmp folders?
  • Varnish setup?
  • CSS/Javascript compress/merge installed and configured?
  • CDN activated?
  • Cookie Law / Cookie alert
  • Social Share / AddThis installed and configured?

Extras

  • Google Analytics setup?
  • Watchful.li setup? (Watchful.li)
  • myJoomla audit done? ({manage}.myJoomla.com)
  • Joomla Update Notification plugin published/unpublished?
  • Is there a backup scheme?
  • Backup AND restore tested?
  • Loglevel in Akeeba Backup profile setup or set to no logging?
  • (S)FTP login created for support?
  • Trainingwebsite archived and removed?
  • Website checked outside your own network/dns?
  • Speed checked of the website? (GTMetrix), (PageSpeed Insights), (webpagetest), (yellowlabs)