Are the bottom of your posts looking a little bare? Why not add a Load More Posts button to your Wordpress site?
This simple button will allow your visitors to load more posts you’ve created once they reach the bottom of the page. It’s actually really easy to add this handy feature and you don’t need any prior coding knowledge as well!
Right off the bat, this button will help provide more content your viewers which is a crucial part of keeping them engaged. More engagement on your site will ultimately lead to more viewers and subscribers.
Rather than having to click on a separate page to find a list of your older posts, this button creates an infinite scroll that automatically loads another post at the bottom of the page your viewer is on. This will add to the overall fluidity of your website, while also increasing your user’s experience.
The first thing you will need to do is install the Ajax Load More plugin. You can find this in the Wordpress plugin library.
Once you have installed it, be sure to activate it or the plugin will not work.
After you have activated it, there will be a new menu in your Wordpress admin menu that looks like this:
This is where you’ll be able to change the color of the button and set the button to display new posts automatically at the end of every page.
Head back to the “Ajax Load More” menu and click on “Shortcode Builder”. Shortcodes are handy little pieces of code that allow you to do a lot of things without physically writing any code.
First, you’ll need to select the container type, most themes use the
Following that, scroll down until you see “Button Labels”. Here you can change the text of your button if you’d like!
Don’t forget to select whether or not you’d like your posts to load automatically!
