Posts Tagged ‘WordPress Tips’

Welcome back for Part 2 of this Comprehensive Guide to WordPress SEO, yesterday I covered the importance of permalink structure. Today I’ll be going over the importance of Dynamic Title tags as well as your common header tags. Title Tags: Title tags go inside your html -> head statement, and are generally used by indexes and search [...]

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Over the course of the several days/weeks I will be revealing comprehensive and indepth findings for Search Engine Optimization(SEO) in regards to WordPress. This time I will be covering the importance of Permalink Structure. Permalinks: Permalinks: Permanent Links, links that SHOULD not change. The first thing you should do when installing WordPress is to deny the option to [...]

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The following tips will increase your search enging rankings for keywords, articles, and your blog in general. In combination with obvious SEO techniques such as link baiting with clever post titles this is a no fail combination. 1. Permalink Structure: The permalink structure is exactly that, a permanent link to your articles and pages. By default WordPress [...]

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My last post, Creating Asides in Wordpress 2.3, detailed how to make asides show up in the sidebar with WordPress’s new tagging scheme. Now the next thing that’s necessary, at least seems to be necessary for me, is to remove the Category/Tag “Asides” from the loop, so they only show up in the sidebar. Your main loop [...]

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A few themes I’ve been testing out have been failing when it comes to creating asides in the sidebar. I wanted to put my asides in the sidebar in WordPress 2.3 and started doing some snooping through the new database structure… mainly the two tables wp_terms and wp_term_taxonomy. You can copy and paste the following code into [...]

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Preparation First this you need to do is follow this tutorial How to install WordPress on your local PC. Except at the end do not install WordPress at all… Instead ftp to your webhost and copy your entire WordPress base directory to your c:\www folder and change your wp-config.php file accordingly. From your webhost, export your entire [...]

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I am in the midst of developing a new WordPress Theme from the ground up (empty theme folder)… and after going through the WordPress Codex, I put together a useful manner of manually displaying Recent Post and Recent Comment background colors in the sidebar. Something which I’ll be showing off very shortly. It must be noted, [...]

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I was recently asked how I achieved the “featured theme” sticky on my front page and I’d like to share. I only use the “themes” category to showcase my themes, and I just wanted to feature my last theme posted so I came up with this php workaround. The following code registers necessary global variables and [...]

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