Niche Review Blogs

I have been getting emails about what exactly is the WordPress framework like for the blogs I set up every month from Niche Review Templates. So here in this article I shall give a glimpse of that.

The blog I set up will have:

- Home page
- 3 Review Pages
- 10 Article Pages
- 1 Blog Post (created by WordPress by default)
- Privacy, Sitemap, Contact Pages

Blog

Let’s take an example, http://www.surveysformoneyreviewed.com. The blog (date-wise listing of posts in descending order) is at http://www.surveysformoneyreviewed.com/blog. One might assume that this is achieved by setting up a plain HTML homepage at / (root of the site, in this case http://www.surveysformoneyreviewed.com) and installing WordPress at /blog directory. But that’s not how it actually is. Thanks to the combination of custom Page templates, the ability to set any Page as homepage and permalinks features of WordPress, the entire site uses just one installation of WordPress.

This is a very optimized way of setting up the site because we have pretty much like static review type content on the homepage whereas you can keep your site regularly updated by writing blog posts that appear at /blog (Google loves this). So from a SEO point of view, it’s all good.

Sidebar

The latest 10 site Pages automatically appear in the sidebar. What this means is that if you create a new WordPress Page, its title will automatically show up in the sidebar with a clickable link that takes the visitor to that Page. If you happen to create a Page that you don’t want to appear in the sidebar it’s very easy to hide that particular Page from appearing in the sidebar.

Also the sidebar is set to show the latest 5 blog posts automatically. So there’s no manual editing of any file to have your latest content (link) displayed on the homepage.

Sridhar Katakam Niche Review Templates Add new tag, framework, structure