March 11

How to Use Rich Snippets in WordPress

If you really want to add extended descriptions of web pages on your WordPress site (the so-called rich snippets), but do not really know exactly what you require advanced snippets, as well as why you should use it them on your blog with one of WordPress themes, then you are at the right place. Advanced fragments provide more interesting snippets in the Custom Search for special content, such as reviews, recipes, and other events. Then we will try to show you how to use the extended description of web pages on your WordPress theme based site.

Why should you use rich snippets in your WooCommerce themes?

Rich Snippet provides site owners another way to communicate with search engines. Structured data allow search engines to see the different types of content on your site and use them to build the expanded description of web pages with WooCommerce themes, which are displayed as additional information in the search results. Such additional information in the search results will make your ad more visible in the search, which means you get more organic traffic to your site. It will also help you to get and raise the authority in your niche, as your site becomes more prominent in the search. Advanced snippets in WooCommerce themes are used not only for the reviews or recipes. You can use the extended description for events, products, people, videos, music, applications, articles, blog posts and so on.

Now that you know how beneficial to the site with one WooCommerce templates expanded snippets, we propose to consider a couple of ways to add rich snippets in premium themes. Adding extended snippets in WordPress themes with All In One Schema Maintaining extended descriptions of web pages by hand can be difficult even for the most experienced website owners. Fortunately, there are several plug-ins for WordPress, which will facilitate this task for you, and almost automatically add the extension to describe Web pages into your WordPress Blog. The first thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin All In One Schema.org for adding Rich Snippets in WordPress themes. Once installed and activated simply click on the extended description of the Web pages (menu item in the sidebar) to continue.

You can see the different types of content that you can create using the plugin. The list includes:

Item Review;
Events;
Person;
Product;
Recipe;
SoftwareApp;
Video;
Article

Clicking on any type of content, the plugin will show you the fields that are available when writing a post in a page or any specific post. Now you need to create a new post or edit an existing one. Just below the post, the editor will have a new check box to configure the Rich Snippets. Inside, you'll see a drop-down menu where you can select the type of content for a specific article you are working with.

WP Social SEO is another advanced plugin that will be able to withdraw the micro-marking site to the next level. The plugin does not conflict with similar and SEO plugins and adds the ability to customize markup Schema.org, authorship Google, Facebook OpenGraph, Twitter Cards and others. Ask your questions related to the use of WordPress themes and WooCommerce templates, by means of the user forum and the Tech Support of 8Theme.