WordPress Websites for Lawyers

Many law firms make the mistake of choosing whichever host charges the least, but if you factor in the expense of tech support, potential downtime, and the time your team will have to spend learning the ins and outs of administering a cpanel, you’ll be much better off opting for managed WordPress hosting. We recommend WP Engine, a managed hosting service specifically for WordPress, which takes care of patches, security, and updates for you.

WordPress is used to create websites for a wide range of purposes, but it began as a blogging platform and still excels here. You’re missing out on key opportunities to bolster your SEO if you use WordPress for your law firm website, but don’t use its blogging functionality. Make it a point to blog on a regular basis about issues that are relevant to your client base. This is a natural way to get the keywords you want to target onto your site, prove your expertise to Google, and even bring new clients to your practice.

WordPress plugins extend the capabilities of your website and these days, there’s a plugin for just about everything. We recommend a caching plugin, Akismet for preventing spam on your legal blog, Jetpack, and Yoast SEO for a law firm’s website. Custom contact forms, appointment booking, extensive analytics, content backups, maps to your law office, FAQ pages, live chat, and more can all be added using WordPress plugins.

One of the first things you should do after installing WordPress on your domain is go to Settings > Permalinks and change the links from date to post name. This is ideal for search engine optimization because it allows you to insert important keywords into your URLs. Make this modification before adding any content to your site so you don’t have any broken links that need to be redirected.