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Ever wanted to display a visual sitemap in WordPress? A visual sitemap allows you to present a hierarchical layout of your different pages and sections. In this article, we will show you how to create a visual sitemap in WordPress without writing any code.
An XML sitemap is generated for machines and search engines. It uses XML markup language to represent the contents of your site.
Search engines can use these sitemaps to prioritize and adjust crawling rate for your website. See our guide on how to add an XML sitemap in WordPress.
On the other hand, a HTML sitemap is intended to be used by your website visitors (real people). It simply displays a list of your pages and different sections of your website on a single page. See our guide on how to add an HTML sitemap in WordPress.
While the HTML sitemap is great to show your site’s structure, sometimes it isn’t the ideal option to display the hierarchy of your website.
This is where a visual sitemap comes in handy. It allows you to show items, child-items, sibling items in a tree-like structure.
Having said that, let’s take a look at how to easily add a visual sitemap in WordPress.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the Slick Sitemap plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Now before you setup the plugin, you need to create a navigation menu in WordPress. Take a look at our beginner’s guide to learn how to add navigation menus in WordPress.
Using the WordPress navigation menus, you can create menus with sub-menus, and sub-menus can have their own sub-menu items.
This navigation menu will have all the pages or posts that you want to display in your visual map. You can name this menu Visual Sitemap and save it.
You can also create another menu or use an existing menu with just the few important pages. This menu will be used as the utility menu on top of your visual sitemap.
Once you have created the menus, it is time to setup your visual sitemap. Visit Settings » Slick Sitemap page to configure the plugin.
In the default sitemap menu option, you need to select your main visual sitemap menu. Choose the number of columns you want to be displayed.
Lastly, you need to choose the utility menu and click on the save changes button to store your settings.
Now that you have successfully created and setup a visual sitemap, the next step is to display the sitemap on a page in your WordPress site.
Simply create a new page in WordPress and add this shortcode in the content area.
[slick-sitemap]
After that click on the save or publish button to store your changes. You can now visit this page and see the visual sitemap in action.
We hope this article helped you add a visual sitemap in WordPress. You may also want to see our list of 25 most useful WordPress widgets for your site.
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Hack.summit() is a unique event for developers that is set to be live-streamed February 22-24, 2016. It is the world's largest virtual conference ever assembled, with 64,000 developers registered for last year's event. hack.summit() will feature an impressive array of programming language creators and open source contributors and all ticket sales/donations go to support programming non-profits such as Code.org, Code for America, CoderDojo, and Girls Who Code.
The event focuses on three primary objectives:
In lieu of traditional ticket sales, hack.summit() attendees are asked to donate to one of the selected coding non-profits. Those who are not financially able to donate can get a free ticket by sharing the event on Twitter or Facebook. Attendees are provided with a unique ticket number after registering, which includes access to the live conference.
The event heavily promotes mentoring by asking attendees to sign a hack pledge to help mentor the next generation of developers with a minimum of one hour of coding help. The hack pledge video below features stories from programmers who have struggled to master software craftsmanship and those who benefited greatly from mentors:
hack.summit() will also host the largest virtual hackathon in the world. Participants will create a web app using any publicly available API that falls within three general categeries: data visualization, productivity, or gaming. Last year's event drew 60,000 coders from more than 900 cities. Participants will compete to win from a $150,000 prize pool.
If you're looking for an interesting non-WordPress event to attend this year, hack.summit() is one of the most accessible with high quality speakers that will expand your technical horizons.
Many photographers use Adobe Lightroom to edit photos before uploading them to WordPress. While editing photos is essential, manually uploading them to WordPress can be a time drain. In this article, we will show you how to easily upload photos from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress with just one click.
First you will need Adobe Lightroom installed in your computer. Any version after Lightroom 5 or Creative Suite would work.
Secondly, we will be using Envira Gallery, which is the best gallery plugin for WordPress. It allows you to create beautiful responsive image galleries in WordPress.
Envira Gallery recently announced the Lightroom Addon which is available with their Gold and Platinum license. This addon provides seamless integration between Adobe Lightroom and your WordPress site.
Let's take a look at how you can integrate Adobe Lightroom to WordPress.
First you will need to install and setup Adobe Creative Cloud app on your computer. Upon installation, creative cloud app will ask you to sign in with your Adobe ID. Once logged in, you need to make sure that file syncing is enabled.
Next, you need to install the Envira Gallery addon for Adobe Lightroom. You can do this by visiting Addons for Adobe Lightroom page and searching for Envira Gallery.
Click on Envira Gallery to open the addon overview page, and then click on the Install/Free button to continue.
After the installation, Adobe Creative Cloud app on your computer will show you a notification that Envira Gallery addon has been successfully installed.
The installation will also download envira-gallery.zip file to your computer. You need to go to your computer's Downloads folder to locate the file and extract it.
In your computer's downloads folder, you should now see a file enviralrplugin.zip. You need to extract this file because it contains a file named envira.lrplugin.
Next, you need to open Adobe Lightroom and click on File >> Plugin Manager in the toolbar.
This will bring up the plugin manager window. Go ahead and click on the Add button and select the envira.lrplugin file from your computer.
Click 'Done' to close the plugin manager window. You should now see Envira Gallery in Adobe Lightroom under Publish Services.
You have successfully added Envira Gallery as a publish service to Adobe Lightroom. Now we need to setup Envira Gallery to work with Lightroom.
Envira Gallery is a premium WordPress plugin. Envira's Adobe Lightroom addon comes with their Gold and Platinum plans.
First thing you will need to do is install and activate the Envira Gallery plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to go to Envira Gallery >> Settings page. You will need to provide your license key which can be found in your accounts page on Envira Gallery website.
After verifying your license key, you need to click on the Addons tab and scroll down to locate the Lightroom Addon. Go ahead and click on the Install Addon button.
Envira Gallery will install the Lightroom addon, and then you need to click on the activate button to enable it.
You will need to reload the settings page, and you will now see a new tab labeled Lightroom. Clicking on the Lightroom tab will show you two options.
First, you need to choose the user account you want to use for publishing images from Lightroom. Second, you need to generate an access token. Copy this access token as you will need it in the next step.
Don't forget to click on the Save button to store your settings.
Now that we have setup both Envira Gallery and Lightroom, the next step is to allow Lightroom to speak with Envira Gallery on your WordPress site.
Open Adobe Lightroom and click on the 'Setup' link next to Envira Gallery under publish services panel.
This will bring up the publishing services manager window. You will need to provide the address of your WordPress website and the access token you generated earlier.
Once you do that, click on the authenticate button. Lightroom will now connect to your WordPress site, and you will see a success message when it has connected to your website successfully.
Click OK button on the success message and then click on the Save button in publishing services manager window.
All the steps mentioned above were just for setting up Lightroom and Envira Gallery. You will not need to repeat those steps in the future.
Now you can easily upload photos from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress with Envira Gallery.
Start by going into Adobe Lightroom and then right clicking on Envira under the Publish Services panel. After that click on the 'Create Published Collection...' option from the menu.
This will bring up a popup window where you need to provide a name for your collection. It is important to note that this name will also become the name of your image gallery in your WordPress site.
Once you have chosen the name, click on the create button to continue. Lightroom will now create an empty collection for you. You can drag and drop images from your library into your new collection.
As soon as you add, remove, or edit images in a collection, you will see a Publish button appear below it. Clicking on publish button will upload your photos to WordPress and store them in your Envira Gallery.
You can continue editing your images in Lightroom, make changes, add or remove images, and do anything you want. You can always click on the publish button and your Envira Gallery will get updated because this addon keeps Lightroom synchronized with WordPress.
You can visit your WordPress admin area and go to Envira Gallery to see your Lightroom collection added as a gallery.
This gallery will still be stored as a draft. In order to add it into your posts or pages, you will need to publish it. Take a look at our guide on how to create image galleries with Envira Gallery
That's all. We hope this article helped you learn how to upload photos from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to resize and make images larger without losing quality.
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Did you know that Skype has a share button? We didn't either until a reader asked us for a tutorial on how to add the Skype share button in WordPress. Skype is one of the most popular communication apps in the world. In this article, we will show you how to easily add a Skype share button in WordPress.
First thing you need to do is install and activate Skype share plugin (see our beginner's guide on how to install a WordPress plugin).
Upon activation, go to Settings » Skype share button page to configure the plugin.
The first option is to enable the share button. You must check this box to enable the Skype share button on your WordPress site.
Next, you need to choose a button size. Available sizes for the button are large share, small share, circle icon, and square icon.
Lastly, you need to choose the location of the button. You can either choose to show it on top of the article, below the article, or both.
Skype share can automatically detect the language of your WordPress site. But if it doesn't, then you can manually select the language.
Don't forget to click on the save changes button to store your settings.
That's all, you can now visit your website to see the Skype Share button in action.
If you want to manually add this in your theme files, then you can follow the manual code instructions below.
First add the following script in the head section of your file. You can either do this by directly editing your header.php file or do it the proper way of adding scripts by using Enqueue scripts.
After that add the following code in your single.php, loop.php, index.php, page.php, category.php, and archive.php as long as it is placed within the post loop.
You can change the data-style to large, small, circle, or square.
You can also change the language to your desire language.
Basically, the code above will allow the user to share the individual post with the post title as the message.
We hope this article helped you add Skype share button on your WordPress site. You may also want to see our guide on how to how to add clickable phone numbers for smartphones in WordPress
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