Why You Must Have a Mobile Application
Here we explain the reasons why you must have a mobile application for the growth of your successful business.
A few years back websites were the catalysts of a business. But the scenario has been changed dramatically. Introduction of Smartphones have changed the lifestyle of billions of people and hence the market as well. According to the latest studies, the number of smartphone users worldwide will surpass 2 billion in 2016. Internet is being accessed on the go. More people are now accessing the internet from their mobile devices. By 2017 around 2.97 billion users are expected to use the internet over their phones, which is around 91% of total internet users and 58% of mobile phone users. In the coming future, the Smartphone/Mobile Devices would become our primary way of connecting to the internet and Smartphone users would access major applications and data from their mobile devices.
So its always better to have a Mobile Application or a responsive website for your business. But websites have limitations, mobile applications can navigate the user to the desired path at ease. Also mobile application can access the native features of the Smartphone such as location, motion sense, sound recognition etc. which a responsive website can not do.
Don't you have a Mobile Application for entering the future yet?
WordPress Most Popular and Most Shared Posts
While developing a WordPress template, plugins will help to an extent in certain requirements. In such cases we will have to write custom functions / code for implementing the exact requirement. Here we're explaining such a requirement. The requirement is to fetch WordPress Most Popular and Most Shared Posts and display 5 posts from each.
Here we can see how to fetch WordPress Most Popular and Most Shared Posts in simple steps.
WordPress Most Popular and Most Shared Posts
1. Steps to fetch 5 Most Popular Posts in WordPress
step 1: add the following code to functions.php (theme functions)
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step 2: add the following code AT the beginning of single.php & page.php in your template (theme)
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step 3: add the following code at where you need to display the 5 most popular posts (most views)
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2. Steps to fetch 5 Most Shared Posts in WordPress
STEP 1: ADD THE FOLLOWING CODE TO SIngle.PHP/Page.php right after the loop starts
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STEP 2: ADD THE FOLLOWING CODE WHERE YOU NEED TO DISPLAY THE 5 MOST shared POSTS (facebook shares)
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