{"id":617,"date":"2017-09-26T07:26:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T07:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remotedevelopment.co.uk\/cms\/?p=617"},"modified":"2017-09-26T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T08:30:04","slug":"how-to-wordpress-make-a-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.remotedevelopment.co.uk\/cms\/how-to-wordpress-make-a-post\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: WordPress: Make a post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are creating a post. \u00a0What do you do now?<\/p>\n<p>The important things to really get right are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Good Title<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Vivid Body<\/li>\n<li>Logical Category<\/li>\n<li>Lexical Tags<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Title<\/h4>\n<p>The title has to attract keyword engines as well as humans. \u00a0Make them keyword rich, as this is the most commonly seen version of your website.<\/p>\n<h4>Body<\/h4>\n<p>The Body content needs to communicate its meaning with the reader being the most important person in the world. \u00a0Not in a direct second person or<\/p>\n<p>The reader is the most important person in the world. \u00a0The tone should be bright and direct, not confrontational. \u00a0It should be simple to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sites have gone from being content rich snappy menu systems to everything living together on one page, the Single Page Application or SPA.<\/p>\n<p>The best WordPress sites seem to combine these ideas in a visual metaphor that supports navigation rather than function, whereas framework sites can become more adventurous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Category<\/h4>\n<p>Organise your pages by Category, religiously add 3 or 5 tag keywords. \u00a0Do not publish anything Uncategorised unless you use it to hide articles, which I think is a good way to remove an article from a menu infrastructure.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Tags<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The trick is to find a balance between and to reuse keywords as much as possible, not create a vast army of different top-level keywords. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">I think a simple tree structure that is 4 &#8211; 7 options at each level and about 4 levels deep is about right &#8211; but it depends on the content and if you can be bothered with tags. \u00a0I think they are a good idea if they help increase the semantic difference and relevance of the page in a multitude of combinations. \u00a0It is the scattered crumbs that may attract people and search engines apparently eat them for breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Discussion: Allow comments<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Personal decision but I prefer it if only a very few article pages on my sites allow users to comment. \u00a0It just looks wrong on a Contact Us here page, but if you are a business, it is quite valid. \u00a0But for many sites, be selective about adding Comments on Page content but allow it on Posts. \u00a0Generally, not always.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are creating a post. \u00a0What do you do now? The important things to really get right are: Good Title Vivid Body Logical Category Lexical Tags Title The title has to attract keyword engines as well as humans. \u00a0Make them keyword rich, as this is the most commonly seen version of your website. 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