Category Archives: WordPress
Feb 2, 2009 by Matt | Posted in WordPress
Did you know there is an easy way to dramatically improve your WordPress blog’s search rankings? Try installing the All in One SEO Pack, one of the most popular WordPress plugins.
The plugin
- Prevents duplicate content issues
- Rewrites page titles to be more search engine-friendly.
- Generates dynamic meta tags for permalink pages. A short snippet from the article is used for the meta description, and the post’s tags are used for the keywords.
- Allows you to manually override the meta tags and title tag on a post-by-post basis as well.
These things can really help out your rankings. The <title> tag is a major point of focus for Google and other search engines, and it’s the part of a result that searchers pay the most attention to. It pays to have good titles.
Meta tags may not have the weight they once did, but they are still considered, and are worth paying attention to all the same.
As with all matters of SEO, your mileage will vary. This plugin will definitely do more good than harm though.
Feb 1
This month’s featured WordPress theme is “Too Newsy” by Performancing Themes. It is a nice lightweight theme with a professional and journalistic feel to it. The minimalism and color scheme work well together, creating a nice overall look.
Jan 29
In the past year or so there has been a lot of talk about “premium” WordPress themes and plugins, and the GPL. There have been many arguments over whether or not plugins and themes should be able to be licensed under other, non-GPL, licenses.…
Jan 23
Automattic’s latest site, WordPress.tv is quite interesting. The site, described as “Your Visual Resource for All Things WordPress,” is an attempt at putting together a central place to find quality WordPress-related videos. So far it’s mainly short beginner-oriented tutorials and clips from WordCamp, though…
Jan 18
Back in mid December I asked whether those of you who ran WordPress whether they had upgraded to version 2.7. The results are in, if a bit late. I have determined, with the help of our informal survey, as well as from monitoring other…
Jan 12
Smashing Magazine has released an interesting WordPress plugin called “Twittar.” The plugin, named for “Twitter Avatar,” is used in place of WordPress’s Gravatar template tag. When a comment is displayed, the plugin will check to see if the email address left matches a Twitter…
Jan 8
This month’s featured WordPress theme is “Desk Space” by Dirty Blue Media.
Jan 4
I would like to formally announce my latest WordPress plugin today. Behold Favorites Menu Manager. When WordPress 2.7 launched, a small menu was added to the upper-right corner of the Admin. This menu was referred to as a Favorite Actions menu. The menu, by…
Jan 2
If you have already updated to WP125 version 1.2.0, which was released just a few days ago, you would be strongly advised to upgrade to the the new 1.2.1 release, which fixes a critical bug. If you are running 1.2.0, ads will not be…
Dec 29
Version 1.2.0 of the WP125 ad management plugin has been released. You can download the latest version from WordPress Extend, or you can update using WordPress’s automatic plugin updater. The latest version streamlines the management workflow, and overall makes the plugin more friendly with…
