3 Great WordPress Plugins to Customize Your Blog’s Navigation
WordPress 3.o introduced some great new features including an advanced set of Menu options. Nonetheless, I always find the need for additional flexibility to customize what Posts and Pages are shown on my blog, when they’re shown and in what order.
Here are 3 WordPress Plugins to Customize Your Blog’s Navigation:
- PageMash: This is one of my all time favorites. It allows to drag and drop Pages into the order you need for navigation. You can also drag and drop child Pages in, out and among Parent pages. This is a real life saver if you several nested Pages and want to change things around a bit.
- Exclude Pages from Navigation: This plugin provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation. This is useful if you want to have a page “hidden” from everyday visitors or if you really only want people to find it through a link on another Page.
- WP-PageNavi: If you have a lot of Posts you’ll like this plugin, which adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. For example, instead “previous” and “next” at the bottom, this plugin will help create a numbered index of Posts, such as Prev, 1,2,3, Next, Last. It may require some custom CSS depending on your theme, but the end result is quote nice.
Any other WordPress Plugins you recommend to customize your blog’s navigation?
Read More6 Ways to Improve Your Business Facebook Page
1. Consistently post new content. If people have “liked your page they’ve basically given you permission to communicate with them. Don’t be bashful – post new content on a regular basis to maximize the opportunity. One warning – don’t post too frequently or you might annoy them. Find a proper balance that’s acceptable for your audience.
2. Add some variety to your content. Don’t just post links or one-liners. Mix it up with pictures, videos, links to local events, articles on related content, and links to your blog articles. Also, use Notes to post longer updates, much like you would with a blog post. Finally, try asking questions or taking a poll to drive engagement.
3. Add some customization. Did you know you can have up to 6 tabs on your Facebook Page? The Wall and Info tabs are not optional, but you can customize the remaining 4 tabs with something unique. There are several apps to create tabs from Youtube, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but I also recommend you create a couple tabs with FBML. This basically gives you the flexibility to add HTML much like a Webpage.
4. Make it fun. If your Facebook Page is all business, people might get bored. Even the Wall Street Journal has comics.
5. Connect with other social media platforms. Most people know you can connect Twitter to your Facebook Page so that new updates gets tweeted. This will help drive traffic. You can also connect your blog RSS feed so that new posts appear in your Facebook Wall. Why do this? One, for efficiency and two, to help spread the word and connect your followers across multiple platforms. It’s no different that including your website address and phone number in a print ad.
6. Have a call to action. What do you ultimately want your Facebook Fans to do? Call? Sign-up for something? Visit your website? Share your content? If you never ask you can’t expect them to guess. Be bold and ask them to take action.
What have I missed? What other advice do you have for improving business Facebook Pages?
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My fist QR Code – scan this into your phone
If you’re not familiar with QR codes, they are an increasingly popular method of sharing information similar to a bar code. Users with a smartphone can focus their camera on this code and the QR code software will save the information behind the code on their phone.
In this case, it’s my URL, but it could be your contact info or any number of attributes.
Looking for a QR scanning app for your phone? Here are some sources I found:
I’m already starting to see QR codes on packaging and websites. What do you think? Are QR codes here to stay?
… Sent from my iPhone
