WordPress Tutorials, Plugins & Themes

Do you want to make your blog to be loaded with more SEO friendly features and convenient navigation tools? Here’s is a list of top 6 page navigation plugins for WordPress. These plugins are designed to provide you a complete hold over the creation, styling and contents of your site’s navigation. All these are compatible with WordPress 2.7:

Multi-level Navigation Plugin

This extremely useful plugin makes your blog more SEO friendly, by providing an accessible dropdown/flyout/slider menu. It is highly customizable and enables you to view the links on your navigation bar, placed in the form of “href” links in the page source code.

The plugin offers W3C valid XHTML and CSS functionality. The options page gives additional features such as, the option to:

• Control menu content.
• Decide the speed at which the drop downs appear
• Choose Mouse over delay
• Hide delay
• Add another menu
• Hover sensitivity
• Keyboard accessibility

Installation:

First, Upload the multi-level-navigation-plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Next you need to activate the plugin inside the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. Then, copy the CSS from the CSS Generator page on the multi-level menu. Finally, go to the “Multi-level Navigation” page in the options menu and adjust the settings as you wish to.

A super easy way to connect the visitors to ways to take action based on the content of the blog.

http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/multi-level-navigation-plugin/

BreadCrumb NavXT

Coming after the success of the Breadcrumb Navigation XT , Breadcrumb NavXT offers some new functionalities and features that the earlier version did not have. This plugin creates useful breadcrumb trails for your blog. These breadcrumb trails offer great flexibility, for different bloggers. The Admin interface serves to simplify the process of setting options. Finally, it provides direct class access for the convenience of developers and users who want to make changes.

A simple and highly functional navigation plugin.

http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/installation/

Exclude Pages

This plugin provides a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is selected by default. If you change the setting, the page will be removed from any lists showing the pages, including the page navigation menus.

Pages which are children of excluded pages are also removed from the menu listings. However, the plugin enables you to know beforehand which child pages will be affected when the ancestor page is removed.

Get an insight of your blog post with the plugin.

http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/installation/

WP-PageNavi

This plugin adds a really convenient page navigation bar to your blog. This bar allows you to skip pages while going through the content posted and move forwards or backwards. It saves you from the bother of clicking the ‘previous’ link several times to go to the first post of the content. Besides, it can calculate the number of pages automatically, whether you are on the home page or looking at search results. The page navigation bar also tells you exactly how many posts/pages exist, through the “page 1 of XX” feature.

Highly recognized for enhancing readability/usability of the blogs and improving interactivity.

http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/

WP-dTree

This plugin creates useful navigation trees for your posts, pages, and other sections of the blog. It also offers great display effects.

A highly customizable plugin to give an attractive look to your blog.

http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dtree-30/installation/

SensitiveTagCloud

This WordPress plugin provides a customizable tagcloud that shows tags related to the context only. For example the tagcloud will limit viewing to tags that are placed in the current category, or within the current date-, author-, tag- archive or show only tags that occur in the search results.

You can also change the settings of the tagcloud to exclude the tag of the current post, to show only the related tags. The style and sizes of the tagcloud can be easily modified and it is also possible to carry out changes in the number of tags that would be displayed under different conditions.

Want to give a stylish and non-complicated look to the post? Try this plugin.

http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/sensitive-tag-cloud/installation/

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