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Tag Archive for 'wordpress'

My Current WordPress Plugins

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Dilantha

on April 13, 2008

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Here is a list of WordPress plugins and run and why.

Akismet keeps spam to a minimum.
Audio Player just added to embed the Koha sound clip.
Contact Form ][ for my contact page. Then again gmail does such a good job of blocking spam I don't really need a contact form anymore.
Feedburner Feed Replacement directs the default RSS feeds to FeedBurner. You can track feed stats etc with it. Haven't found it too useful. Mostly bots no people.
Get Recent Comments shows recent comments on the home page. Gives a sense of an ongoing conversation.
Google XML Sitemaps adds a sitemap that I can submit to search engines.
Gravatar just added today. Displays your global avatar beside your comments.
Improved Meta Description Snippets helped me with duplicate or short meta data. Google web masters tools was complaining about this.
ShareThis added a few days ago lets you share a post on social bookmark sites.
Top Commentators Widget is a good way to link back to people who took the time give you some feedback.
Twitter Tools is a gem. It posts a link to your latest blog post on Twitter. I tried posting tweets back on the blog but it was messy so I dropped it.
WP tags to Technorati adds WordPress tags as technorati tags.

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Some Changes Under The Hood

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on April 13, 2008

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Being the cutting edge type. I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 almost the next day it was released. It was too easy. I have this site on Dreamhost 1 click install and upgrade.

I paid the price. My old theme (a slightly modified version of K2) broke the WordPress admin dashboard.

I should have tested it locally but I thought I'd be daring. Only today I found the time to test things locally and deploy a decent working theme. By the way the search was broken before, I hope no one noticed

Here is what happend. K2 is a highly advanced theme with support for a lot of plugins and has its own sidebar manager. WordPess has its own sidebar manager. (Not as sleek as K2's)

When I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 my old theme (K2 Release Candidate 4) broke the WordPress dashboard. I looked around quickly and found that K2 had fixed this in the main development branch. So now I moved to the last nightly snapshot of K2. K2 RC5 will be compatible with WordPress 2.5. Waiting for that.

Technorati Tags: k2, wordpress

Improved Meta Description With WordPress

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Dilantha

on January 4, 2008

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Google Webmaster tools was complaining that my content had duplicate meta descriptions. I found that it was always displaying the blog description on all the pages.

I found quite a few meta tag plugins but I settled for the Improved Meta Description Snippets plugin with a small modification.

I added this else block at line 119 In the improved-meta-description-snippets.php

 
else {
	echo '<meta name="description" content="' . get_bloginfo('description') . '" />';
}

That displays the default blog description on the home page. Then I removed the default meta description in the header.php in my current theme.

References:

How do I change my site's title and description?

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Improve snippets with a meta description makeover

Technorati Tags: blogging, google, search, seo, wordpress

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