Site usability should be one of your top considerations when building or maintaining a website. If your website is difficult to use, people will be discouraged from using it—or ever coming back. Furthermore, in many cases, good usability directly translates to better results when it comes to SEO. Some of the hallmarks of good website usability include: Mobile responsiveness: More …
#14 – Dave Smith, Isabel Brison and Joen Asmussen on the New Navigation Block
On the podcast today we have three guests… Dave Smith, Isabel Brison and Joen Asmussen. They’re all employed by Automattic, and whilst, as you will hear, they’ve had a variety of backgrounds, most recently they’ve been working on the new Navigation Block. Up until now WordPress menus have had their own dedicated area of the admin, but as of the …
Creative Website Menu Designs and Best Practices
Site usability should be one of your top considerations when building or maintaining a website. If your website is difficult to use, people will be discouraged from using it—or ever coming back. Furthermore, in many cases, good usability directly translates to better results when it comes to SEO. Some of the hallmarks of good website […] View original post at …
The Power Users Guide to WordPress Navigation Menus
The humble navigation menu. It’s an important part of your WordPress site that lets your visitors find their way around and helps to structure your content. Every theme will have a slot for it somewhere at the top of each page. But are navigation menus just for your site header? The truth is that they can do much […] View original post at …
How to Show Different Menus to Different WordPress User Roles
If you’ve already taken the time to nail down the perfect navigation for your WordPress site, the next thing on your todo list should be working out how much of your website’s menu should be visible to your site’s visitors. For many websites, there probably isn’t much need to customize navigation. However, if you happen to run a website with …
Nailing the Perfect Navigation for Your WordPress Site
It’s a funny thing. We often place a large emphasis on the creation of great content and on the development of an effective design to wrap around that content. But without as much effort or thought put into your website’s navigation, your visitors may never be able to enjoy all that your website has to offer. A B2B Web Usability …
New WordPress Feature Proposal Adds Content Authorship to Menus in the Customizer
Yesterday, Nick Halsey, one of the maintainers of the WordPress Customize component, published a proposal to add content authorship to menus in the customizer. This feature is specifically targeted at new users who might wish to set up a menu that includes pages which have not yet been created. The scenario is familiar to those who have set up a …