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I have hi-res print files available on my website now! for FREEEEEEEEE 🎊🎊🎊
I'm tired of monetizing and advertising and capitalizing and.... everything, honestly. you can still buy gallery-quality giclée prints of my work on INPRNT if you want those - but now you can also just download these and print them someplace local!
there's only a couple Celestial artworks available for now, but I'll be adding more later... and potentially some VR art files in the future as well ✌
#prints#art prints#art#digital art#celestial#artists on tumblr#i battled squarespace literally all day to do this#it wouldn't let me send files/receive tips directly through the website without me upgrading my payment plan#so i tried to export my entire website to wordpress#which didn't work#and then i made a gumroad but i didn't like the idea of managing a Whole New Website#so i deleted it#and then i just uploaded all my print files to dropbox#and went and manually linked each print image to its own page on my website#each with a specific dropbox link and an optional ko-fi donation link#all of this was very time consuming and is why there aren't more files available...... YET anyways lol
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3 Best WordPress Events Plugins for Better Event Management (Calendars, Ticketing, RSVPs)
If you’ve ever tried to install a calendar plugin you know that it’s not exactly the same as a fully functional events plugin or any event management tool. Calendars display dates of events, while WordPress event plugins offer functions like ticketing, RSVPs, guest management, automated email notifications, booking forms and more.Try a free demo
That’s why it’s so important to think about what you plan on doing with your WordPress calendar.
Do you need to sell tickets for events? Would you like to display detailed information like images, maps, speakers, and payment methods? What about setting up irregular recurring events like a meeting you hold every three months?
In order to achieve some of the more advanced calendar features, a WordPress events plugin is required. What’s great is that you have many options to choose from and the best ones are affordable, powerful, and easy to understand.
Want to know which one you should pick? Check out our curated list of the best event plugins!Mark your calendars…because this guide will give you a whole new way to optimize and plan your events
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The Best WordPress Events Plugin Options in 2020
Events Manager
WP Event Manager
Event Organiser
All-in-One Event Calendar
Event Espresso 4 Decaf
The Events Calendar
My Calendar
EventOn
Calendarize it! for WordPress
Modern Events Calendar
Amelia
Event Calendar WD
Stachethemes Event Calendar
Tickera
Venture Event Manager
1. Events Manager
The Events Manager plugin offers an excellent free version, but you do have the option to upgrade to Events Manager Pro. The average user won’t need the Pro version, but it does have some great features for the low price of $75.
For instance, the upgrade version gives you premium support, a custom payment gateway, API, spam protection, coupons, discounts, customizable booking forms, and PayPal support.
So, registrations are possible with the Events Manager plugin, but you’ll have to pay the extra fee to start collecting payments with something like PayPal or Authorize.net.
Events Manager WordPress plugin
The backend interface is simple enough for the average WordPress user and when displayed on the frontend, your events calendar can be used for selling tickets, showing a simple calendar, or displaying event details. I like that the plugin integrates with your iCal feed and Google Calendar. You can also utilize some of the widgets for showing locations, full calendars, or individual events.
As for showing your events on the calendar and being as detailed as possible, the Events Manager plugin gives you most features you need without paying any money. For instance, Google Maps can be embedded in the events pages. There is also a tool for creating custom event attributes. This means that pretty much any type of description field is possible, like if you wanted to make an area for the dress code to your event, for example.
Reviews
4.3 out of 5 stars (WordPress.org)
Active Installations
100,000+
PHP Version
5.3 or higher
Features That Make Events Manager a Great Choice:
The Events Manager plugin provides a full event creation and sharing center for free. The main reason you’d upgrade to the paid version if for payment support.
The plugin allows for recurring and multi-day event registrations, along with booking management with approvals and rejections.
You can hook up BuddyPress to the plugin for sharing events in your social network.
The single-day event registration is straightforward, as it includes start and end times and the basic event information.
There’s one feature that lets users and guests submit their own events, which is great for public event websites and smaller organizations run by multiple people.
The plugin puts quite a bit of weight on locations, so you can add Google Maps and set up an area to view events based on their locations.
2. WP Event Manager
WP Event Manager is one of the simpler, lightweight WordPress event management plugins. I see it working for those who want to keep their sites fast and not take up too much space or clutter the backend with too many features.
This plugin might be considered the new kid in the event management space, but it’s a popular plugin with great reviews and even great customer support.
As with many of the event plugins on this list, WP Event Manager offers a free, core plugin, along with the option to buy add-ons to ramp up your operation. Although the interface is sleek and simple, the free plugin’s feature list is quite impressive.
For instance, you receive everything from multilingual translations to frontend forms, and to widgets and shortcodes for searchable event listings.
WP Event Manager WordPress plugin
I’ve also noticed that the WP Event Manager developers have put quite a bit of effort into speed and user-experience–with beautiful caching features, responsive elements, AJAX-powered event listings, and more.
As for the premium add-ons, there’s a long list of them, but here are some highlights:
Google Maps.
WooCommerce Sell Tickets.
Registrations.
Event Alerts.
An Embeddable Event Widget.
Contact Organizer.
Emails.
Sliders.
Google Analytics.
Event Tags.
Reviews
4.7 out of 5 stars (WordPress.org)
Active Installations
8,000+
PHP Version
5.4 or higher
Features That Make WP Event Manager a Great Choice:
The WP Event Manager plugin features a lightweight interface and a beautiful user experience. It has caching built-in, a wonderful search module and a completely responsive design.
The developers are highly responsive and friendly for all customers, even the ones using the free plugin.
You don’t have to pay a monthly fee, or anything like that, for a premium plugin. It’s configured so that you start with the base plugin, then you can pay for some of the add-ons if needed.
Some of the add-ons are free, and the others are still affordable. Many of them go for $39, but I’ve noticed some lower priced ones as well.
The entire calendar area is “AJAXified,” so it’s one of the smoothest browsing experiences on the frontend.
3. Event Organiser
Event Organiser delivers a suitable event management solution for the WordPress environment because of its combination with default custom post types. Essentially, you install this plugin, then choose the right custom post type to maintain the WordPress post format, but gain control of some additional events modules.
Therefore, it’s an intuitive user interface, with the basic features required and some great support for one-time and recurring events. You’ll find several premium add-ons to buy along with this event management plugin. One of them is called Event Organiser Pro, and it offers a booking form customizer, a full management area, customizable emails, and various payment gateways.
You’ll also see some other add-ons that expand the functionality of your free or premium Event Organizer plugin. Some of them include:
Frontend submissions.
Discount codes.
Stripe Gateway.
iCal Sync.
Free add-ons: Posterboard and CSV export.
Event Organiser WordPress plugin
The pricing for each plugin varies, but it seems like the more advanced and feature-packed they get, the higher the pricing. Some of them go for around $15, while others are listed at $50. I enjoy the frontend of this plugin since it provides a basic interface with colorization and interactivity.
You also have multiple formats you can choose from, such as lists or calendar configurations. Showing the calendars and events on your website is done with the help of shortcodes and widgets. So, the average WordPress user shouldn’t have any problems with getting up and running.
Reviews
4.7 out of 5 stars (WordPress.org)
Active Installations
40,000+
PHP Version
Not provided.
Features That Make Event Organiser a Great Choice:
The basic plugin is free and you only have to shell out $50 for the premium version. You might end up paying more for the additional plugins, but the pricing looks reasonable.
The widgets and shortcodes are quite versatile, with widgets or event lists, calendars, and agendas. The shortcodes are shown as event lists or full calendars.
Localization is a strong advantage of the Event Organiser plugin. Dozens of languages have been provided by several contributors.
A good amount of support is provided for developers. For instance, plugin actions and filters are available, along with an API and documentation.
The plugin allows for complex recurring events, so if you have an event going for three days, stopping for one day, then continuing for two more, that’s entirely possible. Something more common would be an event that occurs every two months.
You can create and maintain venues and locations for all events. This includes support for Google Maps, so users come to your calendar and quickly identify which events are in their area.
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How To Build a (Low Cost) PBN Fast With WordPress Alpha
One of the advantages of using WordPress Alpha is that we can use it to create a Private Blog network with very little effort. In fact it can be done in just 3 Steps! (Literally 4 CLICKS Per Site) Let me show you how...
How To Build A Private Blog Network One Site (4 Clicks) At A Time For Under $15 Per Site
The steps below are for the actual site building and assume that you have already found a domain and that you have spam checked the domain too.
Personally i use VidSpy Alpha to find niche relevant expired domains and although there are far more comprehensive tool out there this one does the job for me and finds great domains that i can easily boost the SEO metrics after rebuilding and adding fresh content by adding some basic link strategies and indexed the existing backlinks to each site using Link Control Alpha.
The third tool in this system is Expired Domain Alpha which rebuilds sites from archive.org (wayback machine) with the exact design as it was before, regardless if it was a WordPress site or not and will even recreate the exact internal and outbound links that the site had previously.
The Expired Domain Alpha plugin costs from as little as $5 per site. In contrast if you tried to buy that on fiverr.com it would cost you minimum $80 for the same in depth rebuild but without the internal and outbound links feature.
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It takes just one click and is part of the 4 click PBN site building system below...
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Deploy Your Site In WordPress Alpha Choosing Your First Host Server...
​There are 8 cities worldwide with servers in digital ocean, in fact there are 12 data centers in total, in different locations like London, New York, Singapore, San Francisco, Amsterdam  etc. (See Screenshot below)
Each host (droplet that you deploy costs $5 per month) and you can add multiple sites to each but you should use only one per PBN site unless you take advantage of cloudflare API which is one way to ad more sites but is a risk that you need to weigh up yourself.
Choose option of one host - multiple sites as we can use the server for other types of sites later (such as traffic sucking local biz alpha directory sites as these are not part or of a PBN and can be hosted anywhere giving you more value for money)
 Digital Oceans 12 Datacenter Locations
Digital Ocean locations
DigitalOcean's datacenters are in the following locations:
NYC1, NYC2, NYC3: New York City, united States.
AMS2, AMS3: Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
SF01, SF02: San Francisco, United States.
SGP1: Singapore
LON1: London, United Kingdom.
FRA1: Frankfurt, Germany.
TOR1: Toronoto, Canada.
BLR1: Bangalore, India.
Digital Ocean Pricing
One of the great features within digital ocean is the auto expansion when needed for server resources.
When you deploy a site with WordPress Alpha it creates a droplet in Digital Ocean with the configuration that costs $5 per month.
Digital Ocean WordPress Hosting Options
Remember that you can add multiple sites but the more you add the slower your sites are likely to be.
However, digital ocean offers quality but optionally cheap WordPress hosting options. You can scale up as needed when you have sites that start to drive more traffic.
We suggest 10 to 12 sites maximum per server unless they are Local Biz Alpha Sites as they tend to run into 10's of thousands of pages.
Click TWO
Set Your DNS Within WordPress Alpha, It's just one click and done
Wait a few minutes for your site to propagate
Your site will be set up with pre configured plugins
You can add personalization to your site and tweak some settings
Click THREE
​(Optional But Highly Recommended)
Recreate Your Expired Domain From Wayback Machine In One Click!
Or  you can add Expired Domain Alpha plugin and restore the website from wayback machine with the exact design it had previously (regardless if it was a wordpress site or not) and with it's exact internal and outbound links! - Super Powerful Huh?
The Expired Domain Alpha plugin automatically pulls in snapshots from archive.org (wayback machine) for you to choose which one you want to deploy)
The plugin will show a progress bar when it is deployed. As it is rebuilding the entire site together with all internal and outbound links it needs time to work. It will provide an estimated time (in days) for the rebuild to be complete. It's starts with deploying pages and design and goes through each page rebuilding it exactly as it was.
Install SSL which is literally just one click and done.
Click FOUR
Deploy SSL To Make Your Site http
 How to make a secure website with WordPress Alpha?
Super simple, it takes just one click to make your site secure.
This is required and sites not https may be disadvantaged in the search results by Google
It takes one click within WordPress Alpha (If you're logged in to the site log out and back in again after clicking the https deployment button
Thats it!
Of course there are numerous things in between these 4 clicks to personalise your site, finalise your settings on some plugins and add logo and do some settings etc. but this is as close as we can get to fully automated PBN building, right down to recreating the expired domain in one clicks andÂ
 Quick Tips For Building A PBN With WordPress Alpha…
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I suggest that you want a few weeks before starting to add links. It is so easy to add these sites that you can build out multiple sites per week pretty effortlessly and just leave them to mature. As WordPress Alpha evolves we will add i more detailed site management features like tagging, notes and labels etc for you to keep track and even export according to tags into CSV etc. We have rebuild sites using WordPress Alpha using HTML within WordPress, you can still add more content in the normal way or even just run an invisible autoblog to keep the content unique and fresh. The WordPress Alpha “PBN” Template will be ready within a few days and will have the exact plugins that i recommend with settings already done and with advanced options for you to choose from such as:
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Option To Hide WordPress
Option To Block Bots
Analytics Tools That Do Not Need Google Analytics
Option For Complete Link Control For Bulk Management Of Internal and Outbound Links Using Link Control Alpha
With Link Control Alpha You Can Even Discover The Expired Domains Inbound Links and Send To Indexer In Two Clicks!Â
Ever wondered how to backlink an expired domain PBN site? It should already have backlinks if you choose a good domain, just index them on a drip feed
Rebuild and Ping Sitemaps For XML Sitemap, as well as Video XML, Image XML and Mobile XML with the WP Alpha Template for PBN Sites (takes one click to set up and one click to ping google per sitemap)
WordPress RSS Tools For Fast Indexing and Syndication
Optional Autoblog Content From Any RSS Feed With Built In Spinner And Automated One Page SEO For Every Post Using Autoblog Alpha Plugin (Best Add This To A Category That Does Not Show In Navigation)
Pre-Configured Settings For Yoast/All In One SEO, Hummingbird, GDPR, Statistics and More
Built In HTML Sitemap, Schema, AMP,
Choice Of Fast Themes To Switch Between On Each Site
Marketing Elements Built In To Make The Sites Look REAL such as call to action, list building optin forms (slide in, full page overlay, smart bar options)
In the meantime you can build adequate PBN sites with the existing Generic Blog template, and you can check out the core plugins and features that we have pre-configured on this post about How & Why To Set Up A Site With WordPress Alpha.
We will even have a service from my own PBN site builder guy that i have been using for years (long before WordPress Alpha). In fact he has built loads of my PBN sites in Easy Blog Networks and configuring them to look like real sites.
He is available to build all this out for you if you want to take it much further with CTA, logo, optin forms, auto content and more. However i suggest that you only do this if you have a traffic breakout site (a site that starts ranking and driving traffic) so that the cost can be recovered quickly. One more thing… Beyond those 8 servers that Digital Ocean Provide you can also use Cloudflare for DNS too. That can create unique Class C IP’s for extra sites outside of the first 8 sites. It's not a perfect way to do it but it can work if you do it properly, which i will explain how in the course that comes with WP Alpha Private Blog Network template training. Essentially what we do is build some “concept” PBN sites.
What's a Concept PBN site?
Tune in when we launch the PBN template and learn what this is and how easy it is to do in detail. No One Else Is Teaching This As A Strategy (It's One Of My Own Unique Tricks!) All of this will be covered in step by step detail in video tutorials which is what i do with every new template and will include building a 25 site PBN for under $350.
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If you are seeing this, then the brand new website is fully functional and deployed. Exciting isn't it?
It started as a fun weekend project. I wanted to see how hard it would be to convert my dynamic wordpress blog to something that wouldn't need traditional server to host the content. I'm finding more and more of my VPS is now retireable.
I have loved the idea of static site generators since the days of Movable Type. Dynamic providers such as drupal and wordpress are way easier to maintain. You never had to rebuild your entire site. You can create new content and bam its ready. Comments are super easy too. Everything "just works". The problem is that database lookups are slow. Acces control gets hard. Its super easy to have someone else come in and modify your content. It happened at least once on every site i've worked on. I got super paranoid with halkeye.net. I had a secret username and password to edit the content, and all files on disk were read-only. But yet I had one plugin that had an exploit and bam someone was able to replace content. Movable type was a system that produced a nice fast static site, but had a dynamic admin tool. This let the site be super fast, and still make it easy to edit.
I'm now using gatsby. Gatsby is a static site generate using react. It uses plugins to define all kind of behavior. So you can have plugins that read from other CMSs such as drupal. I chose to use the system that reads from the filesystem. This means I have one markdown file for each post but its super customizable. Plus now I can have the entire website, plugins, configuration and all on GitHub. I love open source so this is a little way of letting me share my current setup. You can check it out - https://github.com/halkeye/www-gavinmogan-com
How did I do it?
Export every post through the wordpress export system
Use the wp2md tool to convert every post to markdown. My fork has a couple minor fixes to allow categories, tags, and a cover image - https://github.com/halkeye/wp2md
My site has been migrated so many times in the past its kinda a mess. I went through each post and cleaned things up. Using web.archive.org I was able to find old images, even found an old post that was half deleted that I was able to manage to rebuild based on various urls.
Celebrate
There was many minor steps in between.
As cringe as some of my early posts were, it was actually pretty fun to go through all the posts. I tried as best as I could to update formatting and fix images and links. This blog has been migrated from movable type to my own system to Drupal to WordPress to now Gatsby and probably many more in the future.
Make sure you also check out /projects and /presentations. I'm really happy about the presentations page. Gavinmogan.com started as a site to show off my presentations when I applied at jobs. Its come a long way.
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An excellent user experience works to guide the visitor towards their goal. This could be purchasing a product, reading an article, or messaging someone on a social site.
The best way to improve user experience is through a clear navigation. And you can improve navigation by adding breadcrumbs into your pages.
These breadcrumbs help define a content hierarchy for your page and encourage visitors to dig deeper into your site. Whether that site is an ecommerce shop or an online blog, it’s always a good thing to get visitors digging deeper.
Let’s dive into breadcrumbs and see how these can be used on the web. I’ll share my favorite examples along with some free resources for designers & developers.
Intro To Breadcrumbs
Generally breadcrumbs are used to denote a hierarchy in content. These let your readers know exactly where they are on your site and how each page fits into the overall structure.
This layered breadcrumb nav fits nicely with multi-level website categories. But you might also use breadcrumbs for organizing other features like tags, archives, or even multi-paged articles.
Detailed breadcrumbs are always useful because they encourage users to get deeper into the site. Ecommerce shops are notorious for detailed breadcrumbs because they can often have 3 or 4 tiers of categories(or more!)
Amazon is the largest ecommerce shop you’ll find and their breadcrumbs are incredibly detailed.
If you have tons of subcategories for a detailed website hierarchy then breadcrumbs are practically a no brainer.
They don’t take up much space but they do increase user engagement. You can even add schema code to your breadcrumbs for rich data snippets picked up by Google.
Generally these won’t do much for SERPs but you do get noticeable breadcrumb features in Google.
In fact most of Google’s websites use these breadcrumbs where it makes sense.
Take for example their webmasters support page which offers hundreds of resources for website owners. With so many guides it can feel overwhelming. How do you make it easier?
Clear content hierarchy. Breadcrumbs are just one part of designing this hierarchy for the best user experience.
Not every website needs breadcrumbs so these aren’t crucial page elements. My goal with this post is to show which types of content work best with breadcrumbs and how you might use them on your own website.
Crumbs In Blog Layouts
Blogs rarely use categories that go beyond 2 or 3 sub-categories. This means that blog/news site breadcrumbs are usually pretty simple.
But even a simple breadcrumb path can encourage more clicks, assuming the breadcrumbs are noticeable and easy to use.
I prefer to see breadcrumbs near the page header and in clear view. They should define what the page is about and include links to relevant categories.
The above example from the Ubuntu Handbook is perfect to mimic for any simple setup. It only features a main home link, the inner category, and the current page.
Few blogs will end up more complicated than this but it shows how well breadcrumbs work in the right setting. Plus users can quickly access other how-to articles if they’re curious to read more.
But one of my favorite blog breadcrumb designs is the TutsPlus layout which adds breadcrumb elements into the main page header.
Notice how the category crumbs lead into the main heading text. This makes it all seem like one big page element where the breadcrumbs are a precursor to the headline.
Since TutsPlus uses a large dropdown for their navigation it’s tougher to dig into categories. But these breadcrumb links offer one-click access to categories that might interest the user based on whatever they’re reading.
Follow whatever techniques fit best for your blog. You don’t need breadcrumbs to appear flashy or detailed; they just need to work.
Ecommerce Breadcrumb Designs
The other popular use for breadcrumbs is with ecommerce shops. These websites typically have a lot going on with many layers of categories to browse through.
I always recommend ecommerce shops to use breadcrumbs because they’re just so useful to the end user. Product pages don’t have as much content as a blog post so visitors aren’t sticking around as long.
If visitors want to find related products then breadcrumb links are the perfect solution.
Wayfair runs an amazing design and their breadcrumb navigation is superb. If you browse around the site you’ll notice a lot of their products fall 5-6 levels deep into sub-categories.
For this type of ecommerce shop a breadcrumb nav is essential. It lets the user jump as many category levels as they want all from a single page.
I also like how the category pages themselves include breadcrumbs. The main breadcrumb bar is visible on basically every page so it’s a consistent navigation for Wayfair shoppers.
You’ll find a similar design on Walmart’s website although their breadcrumb nav is much smaller and subtler.
Walmart also keeps this breadcrumb nav visible on every page including category pages. The products themselves feature much larger page headers so the breadcrumbs can go unnoticed.
But the upside of smaller links is that they don’t overtake the page. You save more room on the screen for product prices and checkout features.
No right or wrong way to do ecommerce breadcrumbs. They key is to just make sure you have them somewhere on the page where users can see them and use them.
Breadcrumb Web Design Freebies
Instead of designing your own breadcrumb UIs why not restyle an existing one? There are tons of free PSDs online featuring incredible breadcrumbs.
These are my top picks since they’re easy to download and can fit into any website.
Sometimes plaintext links are fine but if you want a little more kick to your breadcrumbs then try reworking these freebies.
Checkout Process
This checkout breadcrumb is actually a progress step UI. But you can reuse this same interface to create breadcrumbs too.
Both progress steps & breadcrumbs look very similar but they’re used for different purposes. The arrow shapes lead visitors through the links and each “segment” is clearly defined with drop shadows. So either way this freebie works well for getting started.
Traditional Crumbs
Here’s a more traditional breadcrumb bar with a unique twist on the home link. Everyone recognizes the house icon as a link to the homepage so this cuts down on screen space.
Plus with the home link colored differently it represents the root link in the entire chain. Again the arrows denote a clear hierarchy which is perfect for any breadcrumb design.
Simple Nav
Offering both a dark and light version, this freebie should fit into practically any webpage with ease.
You can even rebuild this crumb bar using basic CSS3 if you have the time. But you can also restyle the images to fit your color scheme and export them directly from Photoshop.
I like this freebie as more of a starting point for minimalist layouts.
Light Blue Gradients
It’s super easy to create gradients in CSS3 and now you can apply them to your pages with these breadcrumbs.
There are Photoshop extensions that export code directly from PSD files. But I always prefer hard coding because the results are usually cleaner, and this breadcrumb really shouldn’t be too hard to recreate.
Again it’s totally free so you can download this and change the gradient colors to suit whatever project you’re working on.
Swift Crumbs
The team at SwiftPSD released these breadcrumbs offering a simple yet elegant way to add legible breadcrumbs to your page.
They each sit atop a gradient bar element with crisp text and the classic side arrow separator. You can adapt this to work with any font or any color scheme so it’s a tried & true breadcrumb design that’ll last for years.
Free Breadcrumb Snippets & Plugins
Once you have a design style you probably want to get it coded. But if you’re not much of a coder you can always rely on code snippets or even plugins.
These are some of the best out there for quickly adding breadcrumbs to your page. And if you Google around you can probably find a whole lot more.
Breadcrumb NavXT
Considering WordPress’ massive plugin collection it should be no surprise that there’s an awesome breadcrumb plugin out there.
Breadcrumb NavXT is completely free and it’s the easiest way to add breadcrumbs onto any page. This plugin uses the Schema.org code to create SEO-friendly breadcrumbs that Google will pick up and display in your search rankings.
It also has a settings panel so you can add breadcrumbs into your theme without any coding whatsoever. A great choice for WP users who want a simple & easy breadcrumb setup.
WP Breadcrumb
One other choice for WordPress is the simpler Breadcrumb plugin. This doesn’t get as many frequent updates but it’s still a stable plugin that lets you quickly add breadcrumbs to your site.
These crumbs mostly work via shortcodes but you can change the settings to run breadcrumbs on any page.
Unfortunately the default design is pretty ugly so you’ll want to edit the breadcrumbs in CSS. If you don’t have much coding knowledge then this plugin may be a tougher hurdle than NavXT.
jQuery rCrumbs
If you search through GitHub you’ll find tons of free repos with code snippets and plugins for every element. The jQuery rCrumbs plugin is one such example to help you build gorgeous breadcrumb navigations powered by jQuery.
It’s fully responsive and works on any list of link elements. You just create an unordered list with a container using an ID like #breadcrumbs and point the rCrumbs function towards that list.
This automatically renders the list into pristine breadcrumbs with optional settings like ellipses for longer lines. A nice dynamic plugin for coders who want more control over their breadcrumb display.
Bootsnipp Breadcrumbs
If you’re a fan of Twitter’s Bootstrap library then you’ll love these breadcrumb snippets hosted on Bootsnipp.
Each snippet is submitted by others who release their codes for free to copy & mess with. Notably these all run on the latest version of Bootstrap with many codes even supporting the BS4 update.
But these snippets are only really useful to developers who work with Bootstrap. Still they’re invaluable for creating breadcrumbs that work and comply to Bootstrap’s responsive styles.
CodePen Snippets
One other resource you might dig through is CodePen. This free browser IDE lets developers save their code snippets and share them with the world.
If you browse through the breadcrumbs tag you’ll find loads of CSS breadcrumb styles ripe for the picking. You can even test them out right in CodePen and duplicate the repo to save your changes.
Moving Forward
If you run a site that could benefit from breadcrumbs I recommend testing them out. You don’t have a lot to lose and most users appreciate the added navigation.
But make sure you follow some of the best practices from the examples in this post. A difficult breadcrumb nav is worse than nothing at all. Try to place yourself in the user’s eyes and design breadcrumbs for their needs.
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