"X navigation was doing well, houses, cars, girls, and money were all within reach."
In the past, X navigation was genuinely profitable; the first X site created by the webmaster was also a navigation site. I vaguely remember a group of BC investors chasing me with cash to buy the site. Now, due to everyone lacking traffic and many navigation sites faking their numbers, the entire navigation market has been ruined. The days when you could easily get over ten thousand IPs just by exchanging links are long gone...
Nowadays, most navigation sites are run by video site webmasters who use CPS and CPA to promote apps.
Without further ado, let's get to the tutorial.
The WP theme used in this tutorial is the open-source WebStack theme from GitHub, completely free and without backdoors.
Author's GitHub#
WebStack Demo Site#
https://webstack.iotheme.cn/
Newbies are advised to first check the site’s Baota setup tutorial and WordPress installation tutorial
Install a visual management interface for your server - Baota Panel International Version aaPanel Installation Tutorial
Baota Panel Basic Tutorial for Building WordPress
Download and Install the WebStack Theme#
Directly go to the release page: https://github.com/owen0o0/WebStack/releases
Copy the entire download address.
Open Baota and enter the directory of the already installed WP site, then go directly to the theme directory folder: /www/wwwroot/your_domain/wp-content/themes
Then select Remote download, paste the address you just copied, and download the theme files into the entire directory.
After downloading, simply unzip it, and once unzipped, you will have a theme folder.
Enter the WP backend, select Appearance on the left, then Themes.
In the themes section, you will see the theme we just downloaded; click to activate it.
Go to the website and check that the theme has been installed.
Configure Permalinks and Pseudo Static#
In the WP backend, select Settings on the left, then Permalinks, and fill in the custom field: /%post_id%.html
This is a commonly used permalink format in WP, generally for blogs, navigation sites, etc.
Then we return to Baota, open the website panel, find the pseudo-static settings on the left, scroll down to find WordPress, and finally save it.
Set URL Categories#
Navigation sites generally set different URL categories for easy viewing by users, such as online videos, resource forums, adult apps, etc. Here, I will demonstrate by setting one randomly. Note the prompt at the bottom of the theme; you need to set a secondary category, and do not input URLs in the primary category. For example, I set "Recommended by Webmaster" (primary category) and then set "X Site Tutorial" (secondary category) below. URLs can only be added to "X Site Tutorial" for proper display.
After setting, it will look like this:
Add URL#
In the WP backend, find URLs on the left, select Add URL, enter the URL title, and choose the URL category on the right.
Scroll down the page to fill in the URL link at the bottom.
Then select Publish on the right.
Go to your URL to check; it has been added successfully.
For other settings, you can check the official tutorial at: https://www.iowen.cn/wordpress-version-webstack/