How to display WordPress posts in a grid layout

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Displaying your posts neatly in grid layout will improve the readability of the content and thus the site performance. Your visitors can navigate easily through information. In this article, we’ll learn how to display posts in a grid layout in the home page of a WordPress website.

3 simple steps to display posts in grid layout.

  1. Install a Post grid plugin.
  2. Set up a Static Homepage
  3. Copy the shortcode and paste it in your home page

Note: You can use same method to create grid layout in any other part of your website. Install post grid plugin add the shortcode to WordPress theme template.

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How to Make Your WordPress URLs SEO Friendly

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The url of a page plays and important role in improving your rank on search results page. Search engines and users see the full URL when navigating through search results. URL signal the target audience what the contents of a page is about. When set correctly, it allows your readers to have a clear understanding on what your post is about and also helps visitors find your page faster. In fact, It is better to match your Page URL with Page Title. Adding keyword in URL makes it more user friendly and attractive for users.

By default, wordPress use post IDs instead of a keyword text URL. This is bad for SEO as your links won’t be related to any keyword that you are targeting.

Although WordPress has a built-in support for SEO-friendly structure.

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How to Find Id Of A Category, Post, User, or Comments in WordPress

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WordPress assign a unique number to each and every item in the site. For example, the User ID is a unique number generated by the WordPress system to help you to identify each user on a website. Sometimes while installing a new theme or arranging multiple items in your WordPress site, you will need to find a user ID , post ID or category ID.  There are different ways to find the ID.

How to find Category Id in wordpress

From your wordpress admin, Go to Posts » Categories 

Method1:

Move the mouse over the Category title (without clicking) and notice the URL that shows up at the bottom left corner of the browser, as shown in the above screenshot. On the link look for the part tag_ID=a, where ‘a’ is the WordPress category ID.

Method2:

Click on the category name. WordPress will open the category editor page. Look at the browser address bar. You will be able to see the category ID in your browser’s address bar.

Method3:

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Simply move the mouse cursor over the WordPress Category name and right click on it . Select Copy Link Location’ or ‘Copy Link Address’ from the right click menu and paste the URL to a text editor such as notepad

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How to Create custom Template for specific category in WordPress

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WordPress categories are very convenient way to group related posts together. Your reader can find posts in a specific category in one page and read pots of their interest . Setting up categories provide a proper site structure. You can assign one or more categories while creating the post. See fig below.

In wordpress  each category has its own page. Add category title to your menu. (Refer How to add navigation menu). Your reader can view all the posts on a certain topic in one place.

Before proceeding let us have a look at creating category page in wordpress. Visit Posts » Categories page. On this page you can Add / Edit WordPress categories. Refer the following image to see how to add/find category slug. We are going to use category slug while creating template.

Click on View link to view category page. When a viewer clicks on a Category link  by default, WordPress shows a page with list of Posts in that particular Category. But you can easily create a custom looking page for different categories on your site.

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How to Add Navigation Menu in WP

How to Add Navigation Menu in WordPress

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Since Navigation menu guide your visitors to important sections of your website, it is the most important design element on any page.  

In most wordpress themes, this menu is placed as  a horizontal menu  close to the header. Of course, the menu location can vary depending on your theme and some themes support more than one menu locations.

When you install wordpress, it automatically creates a default Navigation menu. This menu contains a list of your  top-level pages.  It’s generally a bad idea to include a list of  all page titles in menu. Keep your Navigation Short and  List the Most Important Pages First. 

Fortunately wordPress provides a user friendly interface which let you  add and manage any any page  including category and tag archives, posts, pages and custom links. 

  • Step 1:Login to the WordPress Dashboard.
  • Step 2: From the ‘Appearance’ menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the ‘Menus’ option to bring up the Menu Editor. 
  • Step 3: Create Your Navigation Menu
  • Step 4: Assign Your Menu To The Desired Location
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5 Good Reasons Why WordPress Is Best for Businesses

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When we think of building a fully-functional website for our business, which is the first CMS that comes to your mind? Of Course, our answer is going to be a WordPress.

Undoubtedly, WordPress is the world’s most relevant open source content management system that can help you create a professionally-developed website, without any technical assistance. You can easily manage, customize, and extend the functionality of your site in a matter of few minutes by using WordPress’ themes, plugins, and other extensions.

Today, most of the businesses are opting for WordPress web development to grow their business online. Well, there are lots of other reasons that will determine why business should go for WordPress.

In this blog post, we will share some of the interesting reasons why you should opt for WordPress. This will encourage those businesses who are not using WordPress or for those who are new into the web development industry.

  1. WordPress Is Free

The best thing about WordPress is that it is a free open source CMS tool. It means you don’t need to pay for creating any kind of a website on WordPress. In fact, you never have to concern about the hidden charges or any other fees. You can simply download and install WordPress at free of charge.

Plus, it offers tons of free themes and plugins that you can use to build more engaging, more attractive and more professional site within a few clicks of button.

  1. Flexibility or Adaptability

WordPress offers a great flexibility to those who want to set up a dynamic website over WordPress. No matter what type of a website you want – it can be a personal blog, photography or portfolio based website, restaurants or travel website, e-commerce site or anything else.

WordPress has the ability to adjust according to your needs. In fact, it also comes with thousands of compelling themes and plugins that will help you build a custom website with ease. Read More

7 Plugins To Increase Sales Of WooCommerce Stores

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WooCommerce is one of the most convenient open source tools available for creating an online store and it is one of the major attractions of getting a website built with WordPress.

A lot of people migrate from other platforms using services which convert from HTML to WordPress or transfer an existing interfaced from other platforms.

Building a virtual marketplace with the free plugin is just the first step an owner needs to take several steps to increase sales of WooCommerce stores and a list of plugins that will be helpful in the objective is being presented here. Read More

7 Best WordPress Classifieds Plugins And Themes for 2018

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Some noteworthy websites like Backpage and Craigslist have already taken the world with a storm with millions of open listing and monthly visitors.

The only drawback that’s holding them back has to be their design. The websites have been designed in early 1990s and have not been updated since then.

Unless you have upgraded your site with the Best WordPress Classifieds Plugins and themes, it will not help you get the right amount of visitors you want.

So, heading towards the top 7 classified plugins and themes for WordPress in 2018 is what you should be aiming for. Yes, with so many options, making the right decision can be pretty tough, but it isn’t impossible.

So, buckle up and head through the top 7 names in the market lately.
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Best WordPress bookstore themes for your e-book store

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Writing an e-book? Want to sell it online on your own bookstore website?

All you need is one of the best WordPress bookstore themes. The best features of WordPress are its openness and customization.

Many developers are trying their hard to make this platform better for authors and readers. When it comes to WordPress plug-ins, the theme plug-ins cannot be avoided.

Nowadays many amazing themes are available for the bookstore websites. To sell your e-book with ease you need to make it attractive so that the readers will show their interest to purchase the e-book.

Some themes are discussed below, which may help you to make your bookstore website an attractive one.

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Avoid email sent from your WordPress site ending up in the user’s spam folder.

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Did you know that sometimes monthly newsletters or weekly special offers  from your WordPress site are going to your recipients’junk folders? This is a common problem with emails that are sent from a website via PHP.  Different mailbox providers adopt different techniques to decide when an email is or is not spam.

Why does that happen? How can you stop this from happening?  In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to fix this email issue. Read More

How to Add Custom Menus locations in WordPress Themes

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WordPress includes an easy to use mechanism to create your own menus and menu structure. From your wordpress admin panel click on  Appearance >>Menu.

Here you can see existing menus and menu display locations. You can create as many menus as you want. But displaying this menu varies  from theme to theme. This tutorial describes how to add additional menu locations to an existing WordPress theme.  Read More

Tips for Using Shortcodes in WordPress

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Shortcodes is a special tag that lets you add functionality to your posts, pages, widgets, without actually writing any code.  A shortcode looks like a piece of text enclosed within square brackets. Some examples are given below.

  1. [schoolgallery]
  2. [slider]
  3. [addvideo]

When you load this blog page in a web browser, WordPress replaces the shortcode and actually displays the content. This eliminates the need for copying and pasting codes from other sites, or repeating a tedious task all over again. Read More

WordPress functions.php File

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Functions.php is a file found in your Theme’s folder. To understand the file location, look at the following wordpress theme hierarchy.

Adding Code to the Functions File

The functions file is where you put various features and functionality within your wordpress theme. You can achieve this by defining your own functions or by calling built-in WordPress functions. For example, you can control :

  • Use of featured images
  • The image sizes supported by your theme
  • Widgetized areas
  • Decide whether to show post from a particular category in home page or not
  • And  more ….

You can produce the same results by using a WordPress Plugin. In other words the functions file behaves like a WordPress Plugin. But using lots of plugins can slow down your blog’s performance.

When You Shouldn’t Use functions.php

Functions.php is a theme-specific file, which means each theme has its own functions file and any code/function added there strictly related to that particular theme. As soon as you update theme or change your theme, your changes will be wiped out.  See how to use a child theme to add code without worrying about losing your changes.

How To Create A Child Theme in WordPress

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A WordPress Theme is a collection of files that produce the graphical interface for a wordpress website. You can find plenty of free or premium themes on internet. A good premium theme providers will aggressively

  • Update their themes with new features and functionality
  • Add more security features or bug Fixes
  • Update any browser compatibility issue
  • Keep up with the latest WordPress enhancements.

Whenever a new version of your WordPress theme is released, WordPress dashboard will notify you to update your theme to the latest version. WordPress experts always recommend you to update yo themes to your theme to latest version.

But when you update your theme, you’ll lose all the tweaks you made to it. How can you update a WordPress Theme without losing customization? WordPress is providing an easy mechanism to solve this issue. It is parent theme child themes combination.

What is a Parent Theme?
A parent theme is a complete theme which includes all of the required WordPress template files. Any theme in your /wp-content/themes/ folder is considered as parent theme.
What is a Child Theme?
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How To Configure Akismet For WordPress Blog

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Spam is a huge problem for every website. Spammers love WordPress sites. Spam comments are irritating, and your readers might lose faith in you. Spam comments can negatively impact your search engine rankings. Akismet is one of the best comment spam filtering service that blocks spam in comments automatically. It is free to use and is highly recommended.

In this post, I will share how to configure Akismet For wordPress blog.


  1. Activate Akismet Plugin

    Akismet comes pre-installed with wordpress installation. You need to activate it. Go to Plugins > Installed Plugins. Click on Activate link next to Akismet Plugin


  2. Enter API key

    After activating Akismet, it will require an API key. If you already have a key enter and proceed. If you do not have a key, you can get it for FREE. Click on “Get your key”, you will be directed to Akismet’s website. Read More

5 Best WordPress Product Catalog Plugins

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WordPress is a popular content management system that is known for its ability to be a customizable multipurpose platform. WordPress provides a user-friendly dashboard, free library of themes and plugins that is available for all users that have installed this content management system.

Most e-commerce based online stores are using WordPress. When it comes creating an online catalog, WordPress has made it easy for every business to turn their website into an online catalog. Read below and discover the 5 top rated WordPress catalog plugins.

5 Top Rated WordPress Catalog Plugins

1- Product Catalog

The first top rated WordPress plugin is the Product Catalog by Etoile Web Design. This plugin is mainly popular for its minimalistic themed product catalog design and its SEO options. In terms of style, minimal web design is the hottest themed trend in web design today. Read More

7 Smart Ways To Make Your WordPress Site SEO and Mobile Friendly

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It is no secret that WordPress is currently the number one most dynamic and advanced content management system out there.

WordPress has made it possible for anyone with or without coding experience to instantly publish a blog without taking all the extra steps of dealing with FTPs and servers.

This open source software has proven to be very advanced and continues to advance each year.

WordPress was once only used for blogging, now WordPress can be used as a regular website with a one-page layout or multi-page layout. Google, Yahoo, and Bing are the 3 biggest search engines in the US.

With that said, ranking on these 3 search engines can guarantee great website visibility.

Here’s the deal.

Read below the 7 ways to make your WordPress website SEO and mobile friendly.

7 Ways to Make your WordPress Site SEO and Mobile Friendly

Tip #1: Blogging Topic Target 

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Optimizing a WordPress blog to rank better in search engines can be done by topic targeting. This is a safe and smart strategy to do when writing a blog.

Search engines often rank and place websites in different categories and in different level of visibility.

So here’s the deal.

When blogging, topic targeting is a method to help a blogger by producing content that isn’t too far out of a websites category.

All blogs included inside a website must be different, but they must have a representing topic. Staying on topic is a great SEO practice that can ensure higher visibility.

Tip #2: Font Size

Mobile device searches have grown into the billion margin. With so many mobile devices in use, it no longer is an option for a website to be mobile friendly.

Having a mobile-friendly website can ensure mobile visitor satisfaction and higher ranks.

The best way to make a WordPress website mobile friendly is by increasing the font size.

When increasing the font size on a website, the font will look much bigger on a mobile device, thus, be much more convenient and readable for the mobile device user.

Tip #3: Use WordPress SEO Plugins

WordPress is known for its large theme and plugin library. Most of the items in this library are free to use and some come with subscription deals.

Some of the best SEO plugins in WordPress are free to use. These plugins will instantly give the option of setting the correct meta tags per blog page.

SEO plugins will also create an RSS and sitemap file automatically.

Installing an SEO plugin to WordPress is the most beneficial thing to start off doing.What are the 3 best free WordPress plugins?

  • Yoast SEO
  • Jetpack
  • All in One SEO Pack

Tip #4: Use WordPress Image Compressor

In WordPress, a blogger may forget to compress every image before an upload. Without compressing an image, the full image size will reflect and weigh on the page.

Therefore, it is a great idea to use a WordPress plugin for auto image compression.

So, what is the best plugin for image compression?

WPSmushit doesn’t just compress new upload images, but it will automatically compress an entire image library in just minutes. This is a very handy plugin to install.

Tip #5: Cross Browser Testing

When designing and using certain JS animations in WordPress, a cross-browser test should be conducted.

The cross browser test will show what a website looks like in all different browsers and any website effects are compatible with all the different browsers.

A  WordPress website that works in all browsers is well built and will be categorized as reliable and better designed.

Tip #6: Internal Linking.

Internal linking is a great SEO practice and it does make a blog essentially even more connected.

Adding up to 3 internal links per blog is a great practice and will make a website even more expansive.

Tip #7: Responsive Design

Mobile devices have different sizes! A responsive design is necessary to make a WordPress website mobile friendly.

Most WordPress websites do have a theme library and most of the themes there are mobile friendly, however, a responsive check should be conducted to ensure that all elements inside the theme are responsive.

There are many benefits to making your WordPress site both SEO and mobile friendly. Increasing your SEO rank can lead to major website hits and business success.

Converting your WordPress site into a mobile friendly layout can bring great visitor satisfaction.

Summary

Use these 7 ways provided above to instantly make your WordPress site SEO and Mobile Friendly.

 

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How do I move WordPress from a sub directory to the root directory

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Most website creators using WordPress today to create website. You can easily build and manage your  site with WordPress. When you convert your  your existing business website(.html / .php/ .aspx files)  to wordpress, it’s a good idea to set up a blog and test a new version in a subfolder (example.com/WordPress) so that it does not affect their main domain.  Once completed, you can move the new site over to the root directory for the domain.

This tutorial assumes you have already created, tested your site in a subfolder called “wordpress”. Refer following articles if you need help on how to install wordpress.

  1. How To Install WordPress on the Best WordPress Hosting Providers
  2. How to install a WordPress blog in 1and1?
  3. How To Install WordPress Using Fantastico

Now let us see how to move your site to root.

Step1: Change site URL

  1. Log into your WordPress Admin, go to  Settings -> General.
  2. Change WordPress address (URI) from (example.com/WordPress to example.com)
  3. Change Site Address address (URL) from (example.com/WordPress to example.com)

Step2: Physically move the files from a sub folder to your main folder

Before moving the wordpress files to root, take a backup of your site in root folder. After you have made your backup, it is time to move your WordPress to the primary folder. You can use the cPanel File manager, an FTP program, Shell using SSH, or  HTML editor like DreamWeaver.

Moving Files Using Cpanel

  1. Log into your cPanel  dashboard.
  2. From the main cPanel area, look for the Files category and then click on the File Manager tool.
  3. Once inside the File Manager, you will want to navigate to the folder you have the WordPress site in. (For example, a folder named WordPress.)
  4. You will see a list of all the WordPress files and folders in the right hand panel. Highlight them all and click on the Move File icon from the menu toolbar across the top of the page.
  5. A popup will appear so you can enter the destination folder. Continuing with our WordPress folder example, it should show as public_html/WordPress. Remove the /WordPress from the destination path so that it simply displays as public_html. Click the Move Files button.
  6. This will move the files up to the public_html folder. You should now see the same files as you have in your WordPress folder.
  7. You can now delete the old WordPress folder.

Moving Files Using FTP

Open your FTP program. Select files from “WordPress ” folder.Drag files to root folder.

Your site is ready now.

How to add a Slider to WordPress Website

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Having an interactive slideshow on top of a web page let you highlight your site’s important details on your site in a visual manner. Sliders immediately grab your visitors’ attention and allows users to quickly take action. Most websites put slideshow at the top of the page before their main content.

There are many WordPress slider plugins available which allow you to create your own sliders and add them to your home page, landing pages, posts, or any where you want.

Meta Slider


Meta Slider is by far the most popular slider available for WordPress It comes with four jQuery sliders –Nivo Slider (responsive, 16 transition effects, four themes), Coin Slider (four transition effects), Flex Slider 2 (responsive, two transition effects, carousel mode), Responsive Slides (responsive, fade effect only).

Install and activate Meta Slider plugin

Follow this article How to install a WordPress Plugin .
After activating Meta Slider plugin,  you will see new menu item “Meta Slider” on left sidebar. Click on it.

In this page, you can create new slider. Creating a new slider is simple – add new slides, change settings and save.

Putting a Slider on wordpress post/pages

1: Create a post/page by going to Posts/Pages > Add New.
2: At the top of the page content, you will notice a button to add a slider. Click this button and select the slider from the options available (if you have only created one slider, there will only be one option).

How to put the slider on the front page of your website

1: To put the slider on the front page of your website, you will first need to create a page(as mentioned above) for home page. Go to Pages > Add New.
2: Add slider in the new page.
3:Once the page is ready, Go to Settings > Reading in WordPress and set the front page display as “a static page”. From the dropdown, select the newly created “Home” page as your static page.

WordPress has plenty of WordPress slider plugins ready at your disposal. See 8+ Most Popular WordPress Slider Plugin