Display Recent Posts Outside Your Wordpress Blog Installation
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Using WordPress for your site's blog, but want to display the most recent post from it on your home page? You may have already discovered that doing this is harder than it should be. Fortunately, it's far from impossible; this article shows you how.
In search engine optimization it is now becoming more important to have a user- friendly blog. Unlike the old days of SEO, when websites were mostly optimized for search engine bots, nowadays Google encourages webmasters to build user-friendly websites.
One of the most SEO-friendly blogging software packages is WordPress. It is not only a user-friendly blog offering, but allows for endless possibilities to customize the blog if you know its supported server side programming languages, such as PHP.
This article aims to solve one of the most common problems in websites using WordPress as a blog. You might have seen a lot of business establishments are using WordPress as their blogging platform, and they installed it as a folder in their root domain.
So for example, if your domain is http://www.thisisyourbusinesswebsite.com/ , WordPress is installed as a folder named "blog" with respect to the root directory, so it will be:
http://www.thisisyourbusinesswebsite.com/blog/
Of course, your most important page on your business website is the home page, which search engines expect to be user-friendly, content-rich and search engine friendly as well.
However, if you are using WordPress as a blog, you won't be able to show or display the recent post directly on your business website's home page, because it is now outside the WordPress blog installation.
Displaying the most recent WordPress post on your business website's home page offers a lot of advantages. Take a look at the list:
1. It shows your latest content to your users, which increase audience engagement with your website's content. For example, they will be reading the blog posts, commenting on your content, and understanding your services better, which then leads to them becoming your customer.
2. It provides easy ways for search engines to discover new content for your website, which helps with crawling and indexing, and contributes to long tail traffic.
3. The value and importance of your WordPress blog increases because it will earn some decent internal links coming directly from the home page.
4. Your old content will likely be crawled at a much faster rate than it would have been without internal links pointing to it.
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