How to create a custom K2 Scheme: Part 4

Today let us look on how to make your blog’s visitors read your old posts by customizing K2.

Check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 before reading this.

Calendar

I have not seen the Calendar being used on much K2 blogs. It is simply because K2 does not include it by default. I think that Calendars can be very useful in helping your readers dig through your archives.

You can put the Calendar on your blog’s sidebar with the following code

You might not like the default look of the calendar. You can stylize it with the following CSS

#wp-calendar {
width:160px; //width of calendar
text-align:center;
border-collapse: collapse;
background:#f5f9fd;
}
#wp-calendar caption, #wp-calendar th {
background:#e0eaf5;
color:#666;
padding:2px;
}
#wp-calendar caption {
font-weight:bold;
background:#8db6de;
color:#fff;
}
#wp-calendar #today { /* highlights the current day */
background:#8db6de;
font-weight:bold;
color:#fff;
}
#wp-calendar a {
color:#3388CC;
text-decoration:underline;
}
#wp-calendar a:hover {
background:#96c1eb;
color:#fff;
text-decoration:none;
}

Category

After moving Categories to all pages on my blog, I noticed that my old posts were being viewed more often. You can put the Categories on all pages of your blog with this code

Archives

This will help your readers to dig deep into your archives.

Noteworthy

Noteworthy is a WordPress plugin with which you can mark important posts that you want your readers to read. The plugin adds an icon of a heart near every post you mark.

The good news is that K2 supports this plugin and so the only thing you need to do to use this plugin is upload and activate.

Noteworthy also adds a Category called ‘Noteworthy’ onto which it puts all the posts you mark. This can be useful for your readers as they no longer have to search for the important posts, all they have to do is go to the ‘Noteworthy’ Category.

Download Noteworthy

I have added the Noteworthy plugin to the WordPress Plugins page.

Also check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

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