Posts in the WordPress category
This blog is based on WordPress, and customizing and SEO-ing it is a constant process, so I blog about that quite often. After all, good SEO on this blog makes for lots of visitors, which is exactly what I want of course.
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November 14th
7Simple scripts for speedy WordPress actions
Excerpt: Sometimes, when moving or installing WordPress blogs, you'll have a need for some simple scripts to help do simple things. I found a couple of those that helped me out, and I thought I'd share them with you! Easily install WordPress This first one I shared on my newsletter a couple of weeks back: E…
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October 28th
21Using the Technorati API on your blog
Excerpt: In my effort to remove all badges from my front page and decrease the load time, I have now moved to using the Technorati API to display Technorati info. It looks like this: The code is almost as easy as the code to display your FeedBurner subscribers or your last tweet. You'll need to creat…
Categories: Webdesign & development, WordPress
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October 27th
51Showing off your FeedBurner subscribers
Excerpt: Quite a few websites have started to show of their FeedBurner subscriber count with something else than a widget. To do that, you have to be able to grab the number of subscribers through the FeedBurner API. Now I bet you want to know how! It's bloody easy in WordPress, just do this: $fb = get_op…
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October 24th
22Easily display your last Tweet
Excerpt: I wanted to show my latest tweet on the front page of this site, and although I know there are several plugins which probably could've helped me do this, I decided to see how easy the API was to use. It turned out to be incredibly easy, as long as you have PHP 5.2 or higher, that is. This is the c…
Categories: Social Media, WordPress
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October 24th
25Install WordPress 2.6.3
Excerpt: Apparently, a security flaw has been found in the Snoopy library that WordPress uses. This has made the WordPress team put out a new release, WordPress 2.6.3. According to their blog post, you only have to change that class and the file holding the version number, but an astute developer on the Word…
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October 15th
15A4UExpo Presentation
Excerpt: This is the presentation on WordPress Optimisation Strategies I gave here yesterday at A4UExpo London: …
Categories: WordPress
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October 10th
14Switching from plain text to HTML emails
Excerpt: Recently, I switched my WordPress News mailing-list from plain text to HTML. There were a couple of reasons for that: I use a lot of links, and these were breaking up even a simple text layout, and I figured HTML email would increase the readability of the whole thing. With HTML emails, because yo…
Categories: Online Marketing, WordPress
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October 9th
116 Serious Questions for Serious Bloggers
Excerpt: While it's a hobby for a lot of people, for more and more people, blogging is serious business too. Are you serious about your blog(s) and blogging? Maybe you're even making a good income out of it? If so, you'd better make sure you can answer yes to all of the following questions: 1. Do you know…
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October 5th
27WordPress Hosting Parties Reviewed
Excerpt: One of the most important things when you're starting a new blog is to consider where'll you host it. This decision also relies on smaller choices like which platform you will use, how much bandwidth you will be using, how much disk space you need, etc. etc. This post should help you decide what yo…
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October 2nd
5511 Top WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have
Excerpt: WordPress in itself is a decent system but it can be made into a rock solid blogging beast. Adding plugins can make WordPress into the Swiss Army Knife of blogging: just pull out whatever functionality you need for your specific blog! Many people have asked me for my list of top WordPress plugins…
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September 30th
6410 Checks to the Perfect WordPress theme
Excerpt: I've seen it happen so often. People have a great blog, and at some point, they decide they need a new look and feel. They then decide to either buy one or use one of the free themes available at wordpress.org. There's a couple of things they'll look at, usually in the order: layout / look and f…
Categories: WordPress
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September 24th
6Don't customize WP, write a plugin!
Excerpt: Scripts and Style wrote a short post about adding a custom XML tag to your Atom feed. Unfortunately, they took the wrong route, and decided to change feed-atom.php, the file that serves up the Atom feed for a blog. This is not at ALL necessary. The right way of doing stuff like this is writing a …
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September 22nd
5More nice plugin news: Customize your community
Excerpt: This will come as no surprise to those subscribed to my WordPress newsletter, but Sugarrae has just released the great Customize Your Community plugin we've developed together! This plugin allows you to force the login, register and profile pages of your blog to use your blog's current theme instea…
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September 21st
17SEO Plugin for WordPress
Excerpt: Just a short note, to let you know that next wednesday, I'll be releasing an SEO plugin for WordPress. It's not the life changing best plugin ever, no, it's a reasonably small thing, that will make your post slugs much cleaner, and do so automatically. Now here's the funny thing. There's only one …
Categories: SEO, WordPress
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August 22nd
7Improved WordPress Breadcrumbs
Excerpt: I love how open source works. I released an early version of my breadcrumbs plugin, and I got some great feedback from all of you here on the blog and in the blogosphere! For instance, Damon Gudaitis of Life With Beer asked if I could build in support for category parents. I didn't think about tha…
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August 20th
42Breadcrumbs in WordPress
Excerpt: Historically, blogs, and thus WordPress, have never had breadcrumbs. There's hardly any theme that has them built in, and though there were some breadcrumb plugins for WordPress, in my opinion, they sucked. Breadcrumbs are a great utility, both for usability and SEO. They allow people and search …
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August 18th
19WordPress plugin search
Excerpt: Just a quick post: as noted on the wp-hackers mailing list 2 weeks ago: the search function for plugins on wordpress.org is a pain, it doesn't work at all. Using Google is not the easiest solution too, so I've create a Google custom search engine especially for plugins. You can find it here. It s…
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August 14th
17Blog Icons is now officially cool
Excerpt: I announced the plugin this morning, but I've been coding like crazy on it tonight, and it's now way cooler than it was this morning. So I present you: blog icons 1.0. You can now upload a favicon or apple touch icon in the backend, and, as a new feature, you can also upload & add an image to your …
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August 14th
15Two new plugins
Excerpt: I love you all, my dear readers! Some of you are sending in some great ideas for plugins, and I've coded two of them. First, Michael Gray requested in this blogpost that someone built a plugin to automatically add your Amazon affiliate ID to Amazon links. I've done that. It's called Amazon Auto Affi…
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August 11th
5Using actions in your WordPress themes
Excerpt: At some point, every major theme developer wants to do "specific" things in his theme(s). Either you want to add specific images, need several meta's per post or you want to move some of the "utils" like edit this post around. I'll be blogging a bit about the several things I do in my theme devel…
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August 4th
69Make WordPress' search function suck Less.
Excerpt: WordPress default search kinda sucks. It sorts the results by date, newest first, and interface wise it doesn't have any of the cool things we're used to when we search in for instance Google. digg_url = 'http://yoast.com/wordpress-search/';This post will explain how you can make your search expe…
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July 28th
22Sociable 3.0
Excerpt: While previous updates to Sociable have contained some pretty big changes, (thanks to Martin Joosse we got rid of a private JS library and now use jQuery instead, for instance), most .something updates have contained additions of sites. This update is going to be different, next to fixing the IE7 i…
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July 28th
1Crunchbase Widget WordPress plugin
Excerpt: I was talking to my buddy Shoemoney on IM this weekend, and he mentioned that he thought there was a need for a good WordPress CrunchBase plugin, to easily integrate CrunchBase widgets into your posts without having to create the widget on the CrunchBase site, and then copy the widget code into your…
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July 21st
3LinkedIn feature in Sociable
Excerpt: I've been hacking around Sociable a bit, to allow for a full integration of the "share on LinkedIn" feature of LinkedIn. This feature allows you to share articles with your groups on LinkedIn, or all your contacts. It looks like this: I love this new feature, hope all of you will too. Thanks Ton…
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July 17th
25Sociable & SlideShare update
Excerpt: I've just committed Sociable version 2.8.1, which, next to fixing some bugs and xhtml compliancy issues, brings a pretty cool new feature: the ability to add the social bookmark icons to your RSS feed. This feature, requested by Rajiv Shivane, allows you to add the same buttons you were adding und…
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July 17th
56Issues with some of my plugins
Excerpt: Some of you have noticed that there are some issues with the settings of my plugins. Unfortunately WordPress 2.6 exposed a bug in some of my plugins, that could only be fixed by changing the way these plugin store their settings. So, if you're using the Google Analytics plugin, the robots meta plu…
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July 16th
9WordPress 2.6 Windows hosting issue
Excerpt: If you're hosting your WordPress blog on windows, you might consider holding off a bit on upgrading to 2.6. A bug has come up where permalinks aren't working the way they should... The issue has already been addressed in the support forums, but a fix hasn't been submitted yet. I found out the ha…
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July 15th
13WordPress 2.6
Excerpt: WordPress 2.6, nicknamed Tyner, has just been released, and it's absolutely jam packed with new features and nice goodies. The WordPress guys have made a video showing off the new stuff: Highlights for me are the post revisions, you can now compare revisions like this: [caption id="attachme…
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July 6th
14Several plugin updates and a new plugin!
Excerpt: I've had a good day of coding, and updated several plugins today, all for different reasons explained below, and also written a new one, email commenters. Of course I used this chance to update all links in these plugins and in these plugins pages on WordPress.org. Check out what I did today: Soc…
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June 27th
19Annoyances and weird stuff
Excerpt: So somebody copied virtually all the code from my robots meta plugin, put it in a "Platinum SEO" plugin, and conveniently forgot to attribute the code to me... The GPL isn't that hard to deal with, but somehow, people manage to fuck even that up. I've emailed them and posted a formal complaint to th…
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June 20th
9Crawl Rate Tracker
Excerpt: My friend Patrick Altoft and I were talking about his crawl rate tracker plugin yesterday, discussing some possible new features. He mentioned that it didn't work on 2.5, more specifically, that the install failed on 2.5. Luckily, Mezza had e-mailed him a fix, I tested it for him and it proved to w…
Categories: SEO, WordPress
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June 17th
12My redesign: the homepage
Excerpt: Quite a few people have been e-mailing me how I managed to get my homepage design done in WordPress, especially with the different featured blocks. So, since this site is all about sharing, let me show you! This is all done in the index.php file of my theme. The first block, the intro, is just ha…
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June 16th
4WordPress Goodies
Excerpt: A small update to say I've fixed one plugin and added another resource for WordPress fanatics. First of all, I used to think that with the release of WordPress 2.3 and 2.5, the need for my Permalink Redirect plugin had gone away. However, I noticed that some friends of mine had loads of indexed URL'…
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June 3rd
15Treat those first time commenters with respect!
Excerpt: I've been using comment relish for a while, and used to be quite pleased with that. It has some bugs though, and it was just a tad bit more spammy than I actually wanted to be. So when Alejandro Reyes asked on Twitter: I thought, I don't know of any plugin that does that, but it's a darn good…
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March 13th
13Replacing plugins with template code: Gravatars
Excerpt: Lately I've been trying to reduce the number of plugins I've got loading to speed up my WordPress a bit, especially those plugins that do "stuff" in my theme. I've been replacing these plugins with template code, and this is the easiest fix I had so far: I replaced a 40k gravatar plugin with one (!!…
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March 11th
17Sociable update
Excerpt: I've updated Sociable last night, it now includes a few more social sites, mostly small ones, but also two big Spanish sites: Menéame and BarraPunto, the Spanish version of Digg and SlashDot. The best new addition is terribly simple but fun though, it's the forward by email button you now see below…
Categories: Online Marketing, WordPress
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March 10th
16Custom WordPress database error pages
Excerpt: WordPress 2.3.2 (we're on 2.3.3 at the moment) introduced a nice new feature which has been on my todo list for quite a while, and I've now finally gotten around to: the possibility to create a custom database error page. The idea is simple, you upload a file called db-error.php to your wp-content d…
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March 2nd
16Added a print CSS style sheet
Excerpt: Today, I checked an item off on my todo list that had been on there way too long: I created a print style sheet for this site. Every time I write an article that is longer than 5 paragraphs, I get emails from readers asking for a better print style sheet. Until just a few minutes ago, printing would…
Categories: Webdesign & development, WordPress
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February 23rd
38WordPress 2.5 Plugin Settings Pages Style Guide
Excerpt: Fellow plugin authors beware! Your plugin settings pages might look pretty awful in WordPress 2.5's new admin theme... Currently, I'm working on making all my plugins work and look good in it, and I had to do a bit of research. There's a page on migrating plugins and themes on the WordPress codex, w…
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February 19th
14Looking for SEO aware WordPress developers
Excerpt: I'll make it quick and easy: I'm getting too much requests for WordPress related work (plugins, themes, etc.). I don't mind because I love to cherry pick, but I'd like to have a few people whom I could refer too. So please, if you're a WordPress developer and you're aware of SEO (hey, if you read th…
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February 17th
22Experimenting with tags
Excerpt: As some of you might have noticed, I've put up a tag cloud on the homepage of this blog. The reason for that is that when checking my analytics, I was finding that my older posts were getting lower amounts of traffic. Now that wasn't really a problem with the first posts I wrote, as those weren't so…
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February 14th
77Move your WordPress blog to a new domain in 10 steps!
Excerpt: A friend recently asked me how to move his blog, which is on /blog/ on his domain, to a new domain on it's own. The steps are easy, but have to be taken in the right order to make sure you're not annoying your users and the search engines: Put up a robots.txt on the new domain with the following…
Categories: SEO, WordPress
Tags: Serverside, WordPress, WordPress Plugins -
February 11th
29WordPress plugins and SEO mailing list
Excerpt: I've decided to start a weekly mailing list on WordPress plugins and SEO, which will contain: Info on new cool plugins I've come across or have coded myself SEO tips for WordPress Speed optimization tips for WordPress Tips and tricks for increasing the conversation on and the community aro…
Categories: SEO, WordPress
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February 10th
20A better SlideShare WordPress plugin
Excerpt: After doing my post about RIMC, I was kind of annoyed with the SlideShare plugins out there, as they had me change the default embed code, instead of just using it, so I've built a new SlideShare WordPress plugin. It allows you to set a default width as well, so it will automatically size all pre…
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February 8th
15Ads Widget for WordPress
Excerpt: A quick post to show you a widget I've been working on for the last few days: a widget to ad ads to your sidebar, which I'm actually using in the sidebar. You can see the back-end interface for it on the right. It has a few options: randomize the ad positions shows an "advertise here"button …
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February 6th
23Making money online - increasing profits
Excerpt: Making money online isn't too hard, if you're a web developer like me. You just sell yourself for a certain hourly rate and if you're any good, projects will flow in. That's what's been happening for the last year for me at least. I started AlthA Web Design, and I've been swamped with work since. Th…
Categories: Online Marketing, WordPress
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February 5th
4Upgrade your WordPress to 2.3.3!
Excerpt: WordPress just released a critical upgrade, 2.3.3, and you should really update now. The flaw that was found is the solution to a burning question I've had for a few times lately: how the **** are people editing posts on one of my blogs. (More specifically, css3.info, which is being syndicated at w3…
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January 31st
50Sociable WordPress plugin take-over
Excerpt: Several people have noticed, most notably Andy Beard, that the Sociable WordPress plugin is, next to be being a cool plugin, kind of a dead project. I had modified it quite a bit for Mel's blog, and my own later on, to include Sphinn, Facebook, Mixx, Google Bookmarks, Live and Twitter (the latter i…
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January 21st
72Speed up and clean up your WordPress!
Excerpt: Every once in a while people will ask me to fix their blog, because it's either slow, or broken. Most of the time this is caused by either broken plugins, or broken themes. There are a few things I tend to do when I get to clean up stuff, and I though I'd list them for you. Clean up your theme …
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January 15th
15Update to users to CSV plugin
Excerpt: I've just updated my plugin to export all your blog's users, or even all your commenters, to a CSV file. The plugin now exports the first name, last name and nickname into the CSV as well, and leaves out some of the stuff it would previously export too, like password hashes. This plugin, aptly na…
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January 13th
21Update to Robots Meta plugin
Excerpt: I've fixed a few bugs in the Robots Meta plugin which might have caused the disabling of certain pages not to work, due to the fact that I was a sloppy in whether certain variables were in scope or not. Also certain stuff was deprecated or it's functionality has changed within WordPress since the in…
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January 10th
126Make the scrapers work for you!
Excerpt: Some of you had already noticed that I've added a link back to my blog in the footer of articles in my RSS feed, like this: I didn't do that because I thought you guys couldn't find my blog. It was actually a plugin requested by Shoemoney, who wanted to make the scrapers work for him too, by …
Categories: SEO, WordPress
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January 1st
32WordPress Google Analytics 2.3: XHTML strict
Excerpt: After all the ASP and XHTML strict validation issues with Google Analytics, Google updated the default generated script code. I've now updated the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin to version 2.3, which uses this new code. You should really upgrade! Next to that: I'd like to hear from you on …
Categories: Analytics, WordPress
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December 29th
27I need your votes!
Excerpt: So, my dear, dear readers, my Robots Meta plugin has been nominated as "Best SEO plugin for WordPress" in the Search Engine Journal Search Blog Awards 2007. And to win that competition, I will need your votes!!! To do so, I will start a "mini" competition of my own: from everybody who tracks back…
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December 28th
11My 2007 business highlights
Excerpt: I was tagged by Eduard Blacquière, to write a post about my business highlights for the last year. I'll use a broad angle, talking about my work at Onetomarket, my blogs joostdevalk.nl and css3.info, and my web design company AlthA, as all are somehow interlinked. SEOdays My year started as a n…
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December 18th
20Google Analytics plugin updated!
Excerpt: I've just updated my Google Analytics WordPress plugin to version 2.2, it "forces" you to switch to the new tracking code. Image tracking and AdSense tracking should still work. It requires the code to be in the head, as outbound link tracking will still not work correctly otherwise. Before you i…
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December 13th
2Blog Metrics 0.3: who's the best linkbaiter?
Excerpt: With version 0.3 of the Blog Metrics plugin, I'm introducing quite a bit of new stuff: it calculates how many trackbacks you received on average per post, and does a better job of calculating comments. But that's only a small part of what's cool in it, the coolest part, is that it now generates stat…
Categories: Analytics, WordPress
Tags: Statistics, WordPress, WordPress Plugins -
December 4th
1Blog Metrics 0.2: compare all time stats to last month's stats
Excerpt: I thought it would be cool to compare your all time blog metrics to the metrics for last month, so I tweaked my blog metrics plugin a bit, and now it gives you this screen: …
Categories: Analytics, WordPress
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November 26th
0More SEO Blog tips
Excerpt: Aaron & Giovanna have a nice write-up about SEO tips for your blog today, which is a whole lot broader then my WordPress SEO guide: The blogger's guide to SEO. Check it out! (And while you're at it, digg it!)…
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November 23rd
112WordPress SEO - The beginner's guide
Excerpt: Increase search engine traffic to your WordPress blog with one night's work! Imagine having the search engine traffic to your blog increased by tens of percentages, or perhaps even doubling it, by just a few hours work. With putting just a bit of SEO effort into your WordPress you can increase your…
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November 19th
11Blog Metrics in WordPress
Excerpt: Avinash Kaushik has done an excellent post about blog metrics today, most of the stats he showed off, like unique visitors, pageviews, subscribers, etc. are ones I've been using for quite a while. There were two new "metrics" that I hadn't used as much up till now, raw author contribution and conver…
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November 17th
14Updated my Google Analytics plugin to track AdSense clicks
Excerpt: Iwan Uswak from the Data Mining Blog requested that I added Aaron's AdSense Google Analytics tracking to my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. I emailed Aaron to ask if he had any objections to me doing that, and as expected his answer was "of course not.". So I've just updated my plugin to vers…
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November 14th
8Blogging from my phone!
Excerpt: I downloaded and installed Wphone yesterday, and am now trying it while I'm in the train home. I can say nothing but: wow! It's amazingly simple, you specify that you want to use the mobile interface on login and it just plain works! Although this plugin was the result of an iPhone interface comp…
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October 15th
13Using segmentation in Google Analytics for WordPress RSS readers
Excerpt: One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while seems to be finally nearing completion. Google Analytics allows you to segment users into custom segments, and there's one segment I've been aching for. I want to be able to segment RSS readers, to be able to see the different browsing behavior o…
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October 14th
2What's the PageRank of your wp-admin dir?
Excerpt: Sometimes you've got these moments when you're working on something, and you think "d0h". I logged into the css3.info admin pages, to find that the /wp-admin/ page had become a PR6... So I decided to update my robots-meta plugin and add the possibility to nofollow the login/logout and admin/registra…
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October 13th
7Update your robots-meta plugin!
Excerpt: You can now use the robots meta plugin to verify with Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! SiteExplorer as well, a great suggestion by Roy, I fixed some bugs next to that, so I'd advise you to upgrade! Note: make sure to deactivate and then activate the plugin. There's a function that's triggered on…
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October 11th
37WordPress: Noindex specific posts and pages!
Excerpt: The single most requested feature for my robots meta plugin was to have the ability to add noindex tags to specific posts and pages from within the write post and write page admin screens. I've now fixed that, with the release of version 2.0 of this plugin! For those that have not updated since 1…
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October 9th
1Conditional WordPress widgets with rich editable text
Excerpt: For the "About Joost" widget shown on the homepage of this site, I created a new widget. It has two great features: it shows just on the homepage, and the content and title are drawn from a page, so that I can edit it as a normal page with the richtext editor in the backend of WordPress. The code…
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October 8th
5WordPress 2.3 makes creating dupe content even easier!
Excerpt: WordPress 2.3 has tags built in, as it was one of the most requested features by users. The default kubrick theme and a lot of others now have a link underneath each post to the category the post was placed in and the tags appointed to the post. Like this: Combine that with WordPress's defaul…
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September 25th
7Upgrade your WordPress!!
Excerpt: WordPress 2.3 "Dexter" has been released, and it's cool, so upgrade NOW. If you've upgraded ad you use my Robots Meta plugin, you'll see two new functions: "Enforce a trailing slash on all category and tag URL's" and "noindex the comment RSS feeds". Especially the second one is a reason to upgrade, …
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September 15th
1Exporting your users and / or commenters to a CSV file?
Excerpt: If you have a huge blog, you might want to create a mailinglist for your readers as well. Now to start that mailinglist, you could get all the people who once commented on your blog, or just those who registered for your blog, into that mailinglist. If you're running on WordPress and want to do such…
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September 14th
18Google Analytics for WordPress: my latest plugin
Excerpt: I just wanted to let you guys know that I've thrown the first version of my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin out there. You can download it from here, while you wait for me to write the page for it on this site! It automatically tracks outbound clicks from posts, comments, blogroll, it track…
Categories: Analytics, WordPress
Tags: Display Advertising, WordPress Plugins -
September 13th
12Optimizing your WordPress titles
Excerpt: I've recently redone my entire category structure, going from a large group of categories to only six of them. I did that with a plugin which adds an ajaxy bit of interface so you can easily add and delete categories to posts from the category overview. This plugin is called wp-cats. Now after do…
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September 9th
9More WordPress SEO: robots-meta update
Excerpt: After reading Halfdeck's post about Third Level Push, which Roy pointed me at, I decided to add the necessary code to the Robots Meta plugin, since the code example Halfdeck gave was for an older version of WordPress (the wp_list_cats function he uses was deprecated in WordPress 2.1). It's quite…
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September 1st
4Update of Robots Meta plugin: more duplicate content issues solved
Excerpt: WordPress has a few nasty issues with duplicate content which the Robots Meta plugin I wrote can solve for you. In the latest update I just put up, you can now also disable the date based archives if you don't use them, and the author based archives. Especially the last one is one that few peopl…
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August 21st
6Merging plugins: the meta-robots WordPress plugin
Excerpt: I've merged a couple of plugins into one plugin, creating the meta-robots plugin. This plugin is able to add all meta robots tags you'd possibly wish to add to pages.…
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August 21st
4Adding a description to your categories
Excerpt: Robbert mailed me today asking with which template tags I used to make the description show up on my category pages. Well, first of all, you can add a description to your categories under Manage -> Categories: If you press the edit button there you can edit them like this: The descr…
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August 16th
9noindex,follow your WordPress search result pages
Excerpt: The webmaster guidelines advise you to prevent your search result pages from being indexed, WordPress doesn't do that by default (yet), so I've written a small noindex-search plugin which takes care of that by adding a meta robots noindex,follow tag to search result pages.…
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August 16th
2Cave your trolls!
Excerpt: Henk van Ess recently asked me to help him in developing an idea he had called "Cave Your Trolls". The idea is that troll commenters are "caved", meaning they can only see their comment themselves, and no-one else can. They think their comment is left there and rejoice, but no one else has to bother…
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August 5th
20Upgrading and Installing WordPress from Subversion
Excerpt: WordPress 2.2.2 was released this morning (upgrade, really, do), and for the first time since I moved to my new server (about which I will post more soon), I had the fun of updating all my WordPress blogs. Normally, updating WordPress wasn't any fun, as it meant copying all sorts of files all over t…
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August 4th
2WordPress version detection
Excerpt: Sometimes you're browsing around and wondering whether a blog is a WordPress or not (at least I am)... So I created a small script that detects that, and show the version of the WordPress as well. A useful tool for all you blackhats out there too perhaps? Go grab the Show WordPress version Greas…
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July 4th
5WordPress theming: pushing trackbacks down
Excerpt: I was playing around with my comments section as I wanted to style trackbacks differently from "normal" comments, and while playing around, I decided to just bump them down. The problem with the trackbacks was that they were interfering with the comment discussion. And as I want to keep that discuss…
Categories: WordPress
Tags: WordPress, WordPress Themes -
April 30th
5Fixed category subpage titles and a fix in permalink redirect plugin
Excerpt: Subpages of category archives were improperly 301'd back to the main category page... Fixed that now, so update NOW: the permalink redirect plugin. I fixed the title for category subpages too btw, check how this works: [sourcecode language="php"] } else if ( is_category() ) { echo single_cat_t…
Categories: WordPress
Tags: SEO, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes -
April 25th
16Permalink Redirect Plugin for WordPress
Excerpt: And yet another WordPress plugin fell out of my hands. This one checks the current URL against the permalink WordPress has defined for the post, page or category you're in, and redirects to that permalink if they don't match. This prevents subcategories from being linked to directly without the main…
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Tags: WordPress, WordPress Plugins -
April 24th
4Serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml
Excerpt: When you're coding XHTML, you should deliver it as application/xhtml+xml. The problem is however, that once you do that, IE 6 & 7 break horribly... For your pages to render properly in those browsers, you'd need to set the mime type to text/html. Some very bright people have thought this problem…
Categories: WordPress
Tags: Web design -
April 23rd
57Showing subcategories on WordPress category pages
Excerpt: I wanted to show the subcategories for a given category on it's category page in the sidebar, but somehow the code for this wasn't readily available. Basically you need to check whether there are any children, and if there are, list the categories with the current category as a parent or grandparent…
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April 18th
31WordPress subpages going supplemental: the fix
Excerpt: I noticed that the subpages for my blog (you can find links to them in the footer of this page), were all going supplemental. This wasn't really surprising as those subpages were displaying exactly the same as the frontpage: 5 full posts and a "next" and "previous" link to the next pages. This meant…
Categories: WordPress
Tags: WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes -
April 17th
21WordPress 301 redirect
Excerpt: For all you developers out there building WordPress plugins or coding in the core of Wordpress, this is the "proper" way of doing a 301 redirect in WordPress: wp_redirect(get_permalink($url),301); Easy isn't it? Now go off and USE IT. I'm seeing way too much people who forget to add the ",…
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April 15th
9NoIndex for RSS feeds!
Excerpt: As regular readers might recall, I wrote a guestpost on SEOEgghead asking for an equivalent of "noindex, follow" for RSS feeds. Now it seems the search engines have been listening a bit, or at least have been thinking in the same direction... In a post about preventing duplicate content with your…
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March 31st
16Google, WordPress and trackback URL's
Excerpt: I've been playing around with WP-Googlestats for some blogs, and I noticed something I really didn't think about until now. Googlebot, and other spiders, all spider the trackback URL's that are in the meta data for posts. But since it spiders that and it's not really sending a trackback, it get's re…
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March 6th
0Update to NoDirectory WP plugin
Excerpt: I've updated the NoDirectory plugin to use one robots meta tag instead of two when you want to display both NOODP and NOYDIR, that was a small error on my side.…
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Tags: WordPress, WordPress Plugins -
March 3rd
2No Directory WordPress plugin
Excerpt: With Yahoo! introducing the NOYDIR tag to opt out of the title and description from the Yahoo! directory for your pages, I had to update my NOODP tag WordPress plugin to add the NOYDIR tag as well. In the process I added a small option screen to allow you to show either of the two, neither, or both.…
Categories: WordPress
Tags: SEO, WordPress, WordPress Plugins -
March 3rd
3Version 1.1 of the WordPress contact form
Excerpt: I've just put up a new version of the enhanced WordPress contact form, which adds spam protection (using a simple math question) and the option to show a "cc" option to the person e-mailing you. He will get a carbon copy of the e-mail, without the referrer information the contact form automatically …
Categories: WordPress
Tags: WordPress, WordPress Plugins -
February 11th
31Enhanced WordPress Contact Form
Excerpt: As a multiple WordPress administrator (I control 10+ WordPress sites), I use the WP contact form plugin written by Ryan Duff a lot. Most of the times these contact forms are used as some form of conversion on these sites. This means you want to know as much as possible about the person sending you t…
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Tags: WordPress, WordPress Plugins -
February 9th
2NOODP WordPress plugin
Excerpt: I've created a small WordPress plugin to add the NOODP tag to your themes without a hassle, have a look: NOODP WordPress plugin. [tags]noodp, wordpress, plugin[/tags]…
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Tags: WordPress, WordPress Plugins -
January 23rd
9Upgraded to WordPress 2.1
Excerpt: I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.1, and I have to say: it all went very, very smoothly. The only trouble I had was with Subscribe to Comments. Although version 2.1 of this very cool plugin had been released, and it was said to work with WP 2.1, it didn't. You got an error like "Warning: in_array…
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October 3rd
1Changing your permalink structure
Excerpt: I recently changed the permalink structure of this Wordpress blog, going from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ (Wordpress default i think) to the much more elegant and simple /%postname%/. This is very cool ofcourse, both because it's simpler and SEO wise, but on an existing blog, this leaves yo…
Categories: WordPress
Tags: SEO, Serverside, WordPress -
September 11th
2New design!
Excerpt: As you can see, or if you're reading this from a feed, you should see, this site has had a redesign. The new layout has a fully intended web2.0 feel to it, with improved readability as one of the main enhancements. I've added some other stuff as well, for instance: the blog now supports gravatars…
Categories: Webdesign & development, WordPress
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June 14th
1Short note: FeedBurner
Excerpt: Just a short note to let you all know that i’ve switched the feed to a FeedBurner feed, it should work automatically, if it does not please tell me in the comments. I’ve switched it because FeedBurner can give some pretty cool stats on feeds, which could be useful in the future.…
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June 13th
1Email Your WordPress Commentors
Excerpt: Shoemoney made a perl script to mail his Wordpress commentors. I thought this was a great idea, but it needed to be easier to do :). I've quickly hacked up a php script to do this, if you put it in your wp-admin dir, you should be able to use it right away. You need admin rights to use it, you can c…
