5 Secrets to a User-Friendly WordPress Site in 2017

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5 Secrets to a User-Friendly WordPress Site in
2017
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• WordPress has achieved one of the most
  historically unique changes of all CMS platforms
  in the world. Evolving from a blogging platform
  to that of website development is truly a
  remarkable feat for WordPress. As of today,
  WordPress powers over 28 of the worlds
  websites.
• The websites that are the most effective in
  communication are those that are user-friendly.
  This kind of website works for either blogging or
  business purposes. In this article, I will share
  with my readers 5 secrets to build a
  user-friendly WordPress website.

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An Easy Noting Function

• It is of the utmost importance that you
  understand how crucial user engagement really is.
  Therefore, you must do everything you can to make
  your website as user-friendly as you have to. To
  do that, you must consider using the following
• Comment Widget This is a widget that is
  designed to enable your visitors to comment on
  your website. I suggest using WP Advanced
  Comment.
• Comment Preview With this feature, now users can
  see what their comments would look like before
  they post them. You can use Live Content Preview
  for this.
• CAPTCHA This feature is used especially to deal
  with spam. The only downside of it is that it
  will disrupt user-engagement. If you dont want
  that, then this feature is not for you.
• Subscription to Comments Add an option to
  encourage users to subscribe to your blogs
  comment updates.

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Easy Navigation

• Another important aspect of a user-friendly
  website is to ensure that its navigation is kept
  simple and to the point. Ensure that none of your
  users are confused or rather, get lost while
  moving between your websites pages. For that, I
  suggest you use breadcrumbs or even an Up
  button. These features depend on the kind of
  theme that you use for your WordPress website.
• If the theme you have selected for your website
  didnt provide you with effective navigation,
  then you can use WordPress navigation plugins to
  take care of that. I suggest using navigation
  plugins such as WP-PageNavi, Breadcrumb NavXT or
  WP Post Navigation.

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Social Media Integration

• Adding social media share buttons to your
  WordPress website can further user interaction on
  it. Be sure to use popular social media share
  plugins such as Ultimate Sharing and MashShare.
• The share buttons in these plugins will be
  visible on your posts to your users, enabling
  them to easily share your content on various
  social media channels. As such, it will increase
  organic web traffic and visits to your website.

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Contact Form

• A contact form is a great solution to maintaining
  strong communications between website owners and
  users. Although there are various contact form
  plugins that you can use for your website, the
  one that I recommend is Contact Form 7.
• Be sure to add a contact form especially in the
  Contact Us page. Doing this will convince users
  that you care about them and are willing to
  address their queries anytime.

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Article Navigation

• Apart from website navigation, article navigation
  is just as important. Consider the following
  requirements for this
• Record List This shows related posts to the
  present post that your users view. You can use
  plugins such as Contextual Related Posts, Simple
  Tags or Related Posts Thumbnails.
• Website Map With this, users can get an overview
  of all the pages on your website. For this, I
  recommend Google XML Sitemaps.
• Encourage User Subscription Doing this will
  ensure that users will come back to visit your
  site continuously. After subscribing to your
  newsletter, users will receive a notification the
  next time you publish a new blog post. You can
  use Official MailerLite Sign Up Forms for this.

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Conclusion

• Making a user-friendly WordPress website ensures
  greater visibility, user-interaction and
  engagement as well, if and when you consider the
  above 5 mentioned secrets. If there are other
  secrets that I have missed out on, dont hesitate
  to inform me in the comments below.

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• For more, you can visit WordPress Tutorials.