Do you want to change your WordPress website or blogs homepage? Is your homepage showing the wrong page or post? Changing and setting your WordPress website’s homepage can be accomplished by (more…)
When a colleague recently asked me about best practices for linking between pages on his WordPress site, I decided to do some research to see if there was a better way to accomplish this than the built in WordPress standard HTML URL linking tool. Adding internal links throughout your website is enhances user experience, marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO). For example, you may mention a number of your company’s featured products and services on your home page for which you’ve created a separate sales or detail page for each one elsewhere within your website. It’s good practice to hyperlink each p/s on your home page to each of their corresponding individual pages, because it gives your site visitors an additional opportunity to delve deeper into your website instead of solely relying on them to use your main site navigation. Internal linking is also recognized and valued by search engine crawlers and will contribute to a more positive ranking for your site.
The first method you could use to link to another page or post within your WordPress website is to (more…)
When using WordPress “out of the box” as a CMS for your website, organizing your pages and site navigation can be a bit unwieldy. Fortunately, their is a simple way to accomplish this using a few WordPress plugins, pageMash and Multi-level Navigation. For purposes of this article, we’ll assume you’ve already installed the pageMash plugin, have properly configured the Multi-level Navigation plugin and have it integrated into your website’s template (ITegrity built websites already have this setup and configured).
pageMash works in conjunction with your website’s multi-level dropdown site navigation menu. By changing the settings in pageMash, you can manipulate the order of your page links in your navigation, the placment of your links, beit in the main navigaition or in a dropdown menu under a main link, or whether or not the page link will even appear at all in your navigation. Let’s take a look at how this works. (more…)
