No matter what the industry, the most important aspect about promoting a business online is to make it prominent among a huge crowd. This can be achieved using a good content management system like WordPress. This allows Internet users to blog about their website, and thereafter to create an outstanding online presence. Here are a few tips that will help bloggers, using WordPress, to customize their blog and thereby to ensure that it really doesn’t look like a blog.

Customize The Sidebar

The sidebar in WordPress can easily give away the impression that the site is a blog, owing to its default titles like “Archives,” “Categories,” and “Blogroll.” The first step is to edit these titles from the sidebar.php file present in the theme directory. Bloggers can also utilize the Accordion plug-in in jQuery UI to create a sidebar.

Utilize “Decategorizer” or “Nice Search” Plug-in

Utilizing clean permalinks is the simplest method to customize the view of a user’s blog’s URL. The WordPress dashboard enables bloggers to use custom URLs. But, using the dashboard does not allow bloggers to completely dispose of the word “category” from the links that direct to definite categories in their website. This is where Decategorizer or Nice Search is useful. These plug-ins simply remove the word “category” from the WordPress URLs.

Customize Metadata

Every post contains metadata which is present inside the tags of paragraphs, located at the bottom of blog posts. Pieces of information from the metadata can be edited or deleted in the index.php file in the theme directory.

Avoid Using “Tags”

Avoid using “tags.” These are keywords which can be added to individual posts in the WordPress dashboard and are somewhat comparable with categories, except that they offer a larger interrelationship between posts. There are advantages of using tags, such as assisting blog directories and search engines to categorize blog pages. But, if a user wants his or her blog to not look like a blog, it is best to avoid using them.

Modify the Default Display of the Title Bar Content

In the header.php file, the user has the option of changing the way the titles of pages are displayed as well as remove the function that allows the blog name to be displayed.

Other Methods Of Making A Wordpress Blog More Visible Are As Follows:

• Do not address the website as a “blog.”
• Remove or customize default text and title attributes.
• Add tabs to the sidebar.
• Have a sidebar with dynamic content.
• Use paginated comments to break comments into several SEO pages.
• Give a caption to the images used.
• Create pop URLs.
• Style individual posts.
• Avoid duplicate posts.
• Add badges to allow users to bookmark a blog.

These are some simple methods of customizing your blog on WordPress. Besides this, the “Post a Comment” can simply be done away with so as to give the blog the look and feel of a website. But, this is not recommended as the comments contributed by numerous users worldwide are one of the major aspects of blogging. It is a good idea to stick to the above suggestions.