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Small Business Website Launch Planner
A launch planner for small business sites covering content readiness, WordPress settings, forms, QA, redirects, analytics, and handoff details.
This planner gives small business teams a clear path from final revisions to launch, with enough structure to reduce missed details without burying the process in ceremony.
Use this when
- A new WordPress marketing site is close to launch.
- Several people are responsible for content, forms, and approvals.
- The team needs a practical handoff between build and go-live.
Launch planning checklist
- Confirm page content, navigation labels, and footer details.
- Check business information, service areas, contact details, and legal links.
- Test forms, email routing, analytics, and conversion actions.
- Review redirects from old URLs where needed.
- Prepare post-launch access, training notes, and support expectations.
Before launch
- Confirm hosting, SSL, DNS, and backup access.
- Review site title, tagline, favicon, and social preview basics.
- Check production URLs and remove local or staging references.
- Verify admin users and remove temporary accounts.
- Confirm analytics and search visibility settings.
After launch
- Submit and verify key forms again.
- Check important pages while logged out.
- Monitor redirects, analytics, and contact form delivery.
- Schedule a review after real traffic and client edits begin.
Quality check
- Identify one launch owner for final approval.
- Keep a rollback note for hosting or DNS changes.
- Separate urgent launch items from post-launch polish.