4 Easy Way to Improve your Boring WordPress Theme

As we know wordpress is the most popular blogging CMS today. Millions of people use it as their blogging platform. Want to make your wordpress theme more visually appealing?

In this list we provide some useful wordpress plugins and some short snippets, you can easily apply to your wordpress theme and make it more impressive.

1. Show Post Excerpt

This is a great way to make your theme more visually appealing. By using post excerpt on your site homepage, you can simply show a mini description of your article.

The benefit of implementing this technique is that it decreases page load time and it increases the pageview count.

Read: How to Show Post Excerpt in WordPress.

 

2. Add Post Thumbnails

It’s another great way to make your theme more usable and effective. If your theme doesn’t support post thumbnails here’s how to add them.

Add the below code in your theme function.php file:

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

This code will enable theme support for both posts and pages. So now you will be able to see an option in your dashboard. But it will not display in your themes because we have not added the code in the theme yet.

You can display the thumbnail anywhere inside the loop by using the code:

<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

 

3. Display Related and Popular Posts With Thumbnails

Images speaks thousands words. So you’ll have to show your related and popular post with thumbnail.

Try the wordpress plugins for a quick implementation of related post thumbnails.

Read: 5 Best Related Post with Thumbnail WordPress Plugins.

4. Pagination

Wp-pagenavi a wordpress plugin provides the wp_pagenavi() template tag which generates fancy pagination links.

After activating this plugin the only thing you have to do is open index.php (or search.php, archive.php, tag.php) and change the following code:

<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link(‘« Older Entries’) ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link(‘Newer Entries’) ?></div>
</div>

with the following one:

<?php if(function_exists(‘wp_pagenavi’)) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?>

 

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