Latest 5 Web Design Trends in WordPress

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WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that is primarily used for building blogs. There are several trends that appear every year and this year is no different.

This article gives you five trends and then five plugins to help you work with that trend. The CMS has plugins that are pieces of software that add to WordPress in some way. Some alter the base code and make fundamental changes, whilst others work on the top of WordPress in order to offer further functions.

Below is a list of current WordPress trends and the plugins that will help you get on board with that particular trend. You may also find that the best way of promoting your blog is to give people a preview of what it is like, and sharing plugins will help you do just that.

1 - Social Bookmarking is a big trend at the moment

A lot of WordPress blog owners are clamoring to get their website bookmarked on one of the many social bookmaking sites. It helps to promote their blog and brings people back repeatedly to their website or blog. People are now adding widgets to their blog and designing it to be easily bookmarked, so you should add a widget too and design your website so that it may be easily bookmarked.

You should try the plugin called “Bookmark Me”

This is a plugin that will add social media bookmark buttons to your blog posts. That way, people may bookmark your posts. It is very good for non-English bookmark sites too. It is a good way of getting your blog viewed on a more regular basis.

2 - Sharing the still a big trend

This is a trend that is not going to die in the blogging world, so you need to design your website so that it is easy to share things. Some people add code that makes it impossible to copy or paste anything, which stops content thieves but also makes your blog harder to share. Design your web pages so that they are easy to share and people will promote your website off their own back.

Try “ShareThis” to make your design more sharable

This is a plugin that will allow people to share your blog posts, blog images, or partial blog posts across various social media networks. You should use it yourself in order to promote your blog on your own social media profiles.

3 - Better looking ways of doing standard stuff

The most current design trend is making some of the more monotonous actions on a website a little more engaging, or at least a little more different. There are people who are animating menus with CSS or are creating hovering social media widgets. You can do the same too if you wish.

The “Social Dropdown” plugin makes the mundane look prettier

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This plugin will allow your users to promote your blog post over the social bookmarking sites. However, its selling point is the fact that it does not display all of the icons on the page as if you were looking at a jumble sale. It places them all in a drop-down menu in order to make your blog post look a little less cluttered and a little more professional.

4 - Integrating social media networks into blogs

This trend is still very much a part of the blog design world because social media integration is still a big part of website SEO. Integrating them into your design has also become a lot easier as plugins will often do it for you.

The “Sociable” plugin makes social media integrated design easy

This is a plugin that will automatically add buttons such as the Facebook “like” button onto your blog post. It installs social media buttons on every blog post that you upload and post. It does a lot of the social media integration for you so that you do not even have to think about it on a HTML code design level.

5 - Linking pages and part pages to other domains

This design trend revolves around making a blog post and blog page able to have parts of it submitted to other domains or networks. It means adding links to other pages on your blog website and it means allowing the user or reader to submit other part of the same page to social media sites or social media bookmarking sites.

Try “Bookmarkify” and “I Love Social Bookmarking”

Bookmarkify is a WordPress plugin that will add bookmarking links for social media to your blog posts, as well as adding links to other pages on your blog website. “I Love Social Bookmarking,” is a plugin that offers your readers a number of ways to submit parts of your blog posts on the social media networks and social media bookmarking networks.

The user has to click a drop-down list at the bottom of your blog post. The plugin presents them with some attractive icons which represent the various social media networks.

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