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…
Google Analytics for WordPress: my latest plugin
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 tracks downloads,…
Optimizing your WordPress titles
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 doing this…
More WordPress SEO: robots-meta update
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 easy, you check the appropriate…
Update of Robots Meta plugin: more duplicate content issues solved
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…
Merging plugins: the meta-robots WordPress plugin
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.
Adding a description to your categories
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 description is what we’ll…
noindex,follow your WordPress search result pages
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.
Cave your trolls!
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…
Upgrading and Installing WordPress from Subversion
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 the…
