New visual sitemap Gutenberg block

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6 November 2020

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Improved website navigation experience for web visitors
Mind Map Pro Visual Sitemaps & Tasks
Our Gutenberg block for visual sitemap navigation
Embed a visual sitemap of your entire website
Boost web page interaction
Responsive design support
Simple setup and highly configurable
Start using the Gutenberg block or shortcode

Improved website navigation experience for web visitors

At Mind Map Pro, we have added a Gutenberg block and shortcode to our WordPress plugin, Mind Map Pro Visual Sitemaps & Tasks.

Using our Gutenberg block or shortcode, you can provide your web visitors with a visual sitemap experience for easy navigation to all your web pages.

Visual sitemap Gutenberg block for WordPress after size settings adjusted

Mind Map Pro Visual Sitemaps & Tasks

Anyone who has a WordPress website or develops WordPress websites can use the free plugin for:

Viewing and updating website structure visually
Automatically reflecting page hierarchy in menu order
Adding tasks in WordPress and assigning tasks to developers, designers, writers etc.
Improving the site navigation experience for web visitors by embedding our Gutenberg block or shortcode

Our Gutenberg block for visual sitemap navigation

Traditionally, a sitemap is a long list of hyperlinks to various web pages. It is challenging to understand the relationships between pages and see how it all fits together. What’s the solution? A visual sitemap!

Using a visual sitemap on your website will improve navigation, interaction and the overall experience for your web visitors.

Embed a visual sitemap of your entire website

Our latest release of the Mind Map Pro Visual Sitemaps & Tasks plugin includes a Gutenberg block and shortcode. This means you can provide a graphical view of all web pages, allowing web visitors to intuitively browse your entire website and quickly access pages of interest.

This is perfect for index pages, like your blog, a gallery, product listing, podcast page, events calendar or any other projects that you want to help your web visitors find.

Boost web page interaction

By providing a visually impressive and exciting website navigation experience, you can boost the interaction between your website and its visitors.

Your web visitors will stay on your website to browse through the content of your pages using the sitemap navigation tool. They will find it easier to navigate to relevant pages and find what they need through an engaging visit.

This helps you to achieve your goals, whether you want to sell products through an eCommerce site, direct visitors to your blog or help them learn about your services and submit an enquiry.

With web visitors spending longer on your site and easily navigating to the information they need, you will also improve your web analytics with added benefits for your rankings with search engines like Google. All the while, you are ensuring your web visitors have a great experience.

Responsive design support

Global digital population data (July 2019) showed that there are 3,986 million unique mobile internet users and 4,388 million active internet users. Whatever device your web visitors are using to access your website, you can be safe in the knowledge that your embedded sitemap will look great and work correctly.

With our responsive design support, your web visitors using desktop, tablet and mobile will have a great user experience with enhanced visual website navigation.

Take a look at our configuration section below to see how you can manually update the height and width of the sitemap for different devices and update the responsive constraints to suit your site.

Simple setup and highly configurable

Gutenberg block setup

It’s very straightforward to use our Gutenberg block or shortcode on your site. To add the Gutenberg block, simply create a new post or page as usual and click the plus sign to add a Gutenberg block, or click the Add Embed Sitemap icon.

Select Gutenberg block for embedding visual sitemap

Choose Embed Sitemap to embed the visual sitemap into your post or page. If you can’t see it in the options, a quick search will help you find the block.

Embed sitemap Gutenberg block for WordPress

If you still can’t find Embed Sitemap in the results, check you have correctly installed the Mind Map Pro Visual Sitemaps & Tasks plugin.

Shortcode setup

If you are using the Classic WordPress Editor you can add a visual sitemap to your web page(s) using a shortcode.

Again, the process is very straightforward, simply create a new post or page and click the Embed Sitemap button within the text editor toolbar.

Configuration

When adding the Gutenberg block, you can use check-boxes to choose which pages you want included in the sitemap on your website.

Select pages to show in visual sitemap through Gutenberg block

You can choose whether you want the sitemap to have a border or not and you can adapt the size settings by changing the height and width.

For additional configuration options, you can use the Gutenberg block properties panel to add different size settings for desktop, tablet and mobile, including updating the responsive width, and there’s also the option to add an additional CSS class.

When using the shortcode, upon clicking the Embed Sitemap toolbar button, a popup dialog will appear presenting options for configuring the visual sitemap. Again, you can choose whether the sitemap has a border and specify global width and height dimensions.

Settings for using sitemap shortcode in WordPress

Optionally, you can use the advanced responsive design settings to configure how the sitemap should appear on mobile, tablet and desktop devices.

Start using the Gutenberg block or shortcode

If you don’t already use our plugin for WordPress, what are you waiting for? Install the Mind Map Pro Visual Sitemaps & Tasks plugin and start creating visual sitemaps to benefit site admins on the back-end as well as for your web visitors, using our Gutenberg block and shortcode.

Mind Mapping Frequently
Asked
Questions

What are the benefits of mind maps?

Although mind maps can be used for many purposes, the most common use case is for presentations. Mind maps are easy to create, which means it doesn't take much time to create one. Mind mapping is also a great tool for brainstorming because it makes complex ideas easier to understand. It also improves your presenting because it helps you think about how you want to present your ideas on the screen and in text form simultaneously. It also boosts your creativity because it helps you think outside of the box when creating or presenting content and helps you see new ways of thinking that can be implemented into future projects or presentations

Mind Mapping Frequently Asked Questions

This is a question commonly asked by students and teachers. To help you out, here are some tips on how to create a good mind map.

1. Choose the right topic: It is important to find the right topic before creating your mind map because it will be difficult if you start with an incorrect topic. You should also make sure that your idea is not too broad because it may not fit into your mind map properly.
2. Do not try to cover too much ground in one go: You should create sub-headings in order to divide your ideas into smaller chunks and make it easier for the reader to digest what they are reading about.
3. Make sure that you have a good structure: A well-structured mind map will help readers understand what you want them to know

Are Mind Maps Are Better Than Text Notes?

Mind maps are seeing a surge in popularity with students and professionals alike. This is because traditional note taking can be difficult to interpret by others, whereas a mind map provides a visual representation of the interconnected ideas making it easy to understand.

There are many benefits of mind maps over text notes, including:

- Mind maps help you remember more because they're more visual
- Mind maps make it easier to find related ideas because they're organized by theme or color
- They're better for collaborative brainstorming sessions because you can see all the different points of view in one place

How do I turn my mind map into an academic essay?

Writing an essay is a daunting task for many students, especially those who are not used to writing. It can be difficult to know what topics are appropriate for your paper and how they should be structured.
The best way to approach this is by brainstorming ideas and then turning them into an outline. The following steps will help you turn your mind map into a fully structured essay:
- Brainstorm the main topic of your paper and subtopics that you want to cover. All sub-topics will stem from the main idea in the center of the mind map.
- Brainstorm various possible thesis statements that could support the main topic of your paper, as well as examples of supporting evidence from the brainstormed topics.
- Create an outline with all the main points covered in each section of your paper.

How to Use Mind Maps in Your Business and Marketing Strategy?

Mind maps are a great way for businesses to see the big picture and understand how all the different parts of the strategy fit together. Let's use the example of a business selling window treatments to see how we might present this information in a mind map. The window treatment business has three different strategies: advertising, selling materials, and selling services. The company might want to present these strategies as separate ways of making money in the mind map so that it can see what each strategy is doing for the business. The company might also want to place a chart with revenue for each strategy on the left of the mind map and then show how these revenue streams connect on the right.The idea is that by looking at the whole picture, you can see how all of your different strategies are connected and what they're doing for your business. There are many more mind map examples for business, including; Brainstorm Marketing Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Target Market Analysis, Market Research, Competitor Analysis, SWOT etc.

How Do You Integrate Mind Map Pro into Your Content Creation Process?

The best way to integrate Mind Map Pro into your content creation process is by using them as the main tool for exploring ideas and taking notes. This allows you to better organize and study your notes later on, which can then be used for content creation. You can also use Mind Maps as an outline for content creation, and as a general guide for how you want your content to flow and look like.

Mind maps are often used in the world of academia and business to help think through a subject. However, they can also be used as a general guide for how you want your content to flow and look like. They're an easy way to get started on an article or blog post, as well as a great way to map out what you want your audience to know about an issue or topic.

Who Invented The Mind Mapping Technique?

Tony Buzan is a British author and psychologist who is best known for his mind mapping technique. He used it to help people organize thoughts, ideas, and memories. Tony Buzan was born in London on the 8th of October in 1925 and studied at Oxford University. He later became a lecturer at the University of Surrey before returning to Oxford as an assistant lecturer in psychology.

In 1967, he published his book "The Mind Mapping Book", which helped popularize the mind mapping technique. He also wrote many other books on various topics such as "The New Mind Map Book", "The Active Mind", "How To Think Better" and "Think Better".