{"id":1870,"date":"2017-10-03T14:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T09:32:34","slug":"8-ways-to-improve-wordpress-sites-navigation-for-better-user-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/8-ways-to-improve-wordpress-sites-navigation-for-better-user-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Ways to Improve Navigation In WordPress Site For Better User Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you have a structured WordPress website navigation you make it easy for visitors to quickly find the content they are looking for and also help them explore more of your website.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the ways that you can use to make significant improvements to your site\u2019s navigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Given below are some of the fixes you can implement<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<h2>1.Use Breadcrumbs<\/h2>\n<p>Breadcrumb navigation is used to describe a hierarchical navigation menu provided as a trail of links. Breadcrumbs help you navigate around a website. They also help search engines understand the hierarchy of links on your web page.<br \/>\n You can use Breadcrumb NavXT plugin to add breadcrumb navigation.<\/p>\n<h2>2.Visual Hierarchy<\/h2>\n<p>Having a visual hierarchy helps your site\u2019s visitors to understand the structure of your navigation. You can do this by looking into the placement of the elements of your navigation.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a clear visual hierarchy, it would be easy for your site visitors to find information and sections they are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>You can use a visual mapping tool say <strong>Power Mapper<\/strong> to lay out the pages of your site<\/p>\n<p>You need to ensure the key elements on your site are easy to find.<\/p>\n<h2>3.Color Scheme<\/h2>\n<p>If you can use the right colors with good contrast, it would be very helpful for your site visitors to see the important links and elements faster.<\/p>\n<h2>4.Organization<\/h2>\n<p>Your site\u2019s navigation should be logical that is it should be organized from top-to-bottom and left-to-right.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Location of the navigation bar<\/h2>\n<p>You need to place your site\u2019s navigation menu in an easy-to-find location so that it helps your visitors go through the rest of the site without having them to search for your menu.<\/p>\n<p>The placement of your primary navigation menu is very important when it comes to navigation.<\/p>\n<h2>6.Multi-Paged Navigation<\/h2>\n<p>You can use a plugin like <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/multi-page-toolkit\/\">Multi-Page Toolkit<\/a> to break the posts that are very long into multi-pages posts. This tool creates multiple post pages so that you get indexed more in the search engines.<\/p>\n<h2>7.Sticky menu<\/h2>\n<p>You must have seen in websites that navigation menus disappear when you scroll down. Using a sticky navigation menu in your WordPress site will make the menu ever-present on the screen even when users scroll down.<\/p>\n<p>You should ensure that your sticky menu shrinks in size so as not to distract your visitor&#8217;s attention from the other content that you have on the site.<\/p>\n<h2>8.Minimize navigation levels<\/h2>\n<p>To reduce the amount of clicking your site visitors have to do, you should keep the levels of the navigation to a maximum three within a single menu. If your navigation level is exceeding three, you can consider using multiple menus.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the fixes you can implement in your WordPress site\u2019s navigation and enhance your site\u2019s overall user experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These 8 effective tips will help you to improve your WordPress website navigation for better user experience and search engines to find your content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[53,59,58,50,47,46,60,57,52,51,44,45,48,49,56,42,41,43,55,54],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-cheap-digital-marketing-agency-kolkata","tag-cheap-facebook-promotion-kolkata","tag-cheap-seo-services-kolkata","tag-digital-marketing-agencies-in-kolkata","tag-digital-marketing-agency-india","tag-digital-marketing-kolkata","tag-facebook-marketing-kolkata","tag-facebook-promotion-kolkata","tag-seo-company-in-kolkata","tag-seo-services-kolkata","tag-social-media-agency-kolkata","tag-social-media-kolkata","tag-social-media-marketing-company-in-kolkata","tag-social-media-marketing-kolkata","tag-social-media-marketing-services-in-kolkata","tag-top-digital-marketing-agencies-in-kolkata","tag-top-digital-marketing-companies-in-kolkata","tag-web-design-company-kolkata","tag-web-designer-kolkata","tag-web-development-company-kolkata"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}