How to disable the WordPress Admin Bar
WordPress 3.1 introduces a new feature called the Admin bar. A lot of people will be wanting to disable this when WordPress 3.1 comes out. Since release candiate 2 you can disable it on a per user basis like this: But since some people might want to disable the admin bar for everyone, I thought [...]
Preventing anonymous comments in WordPress
I value comments a lot, in fact, I look at the number and quality of comments on a post almost as much as I look at the number of shares, tweets and pageviews to determine how well a post was received. Recently I’ve done some posts that got a lot of annoying responses. Most of [...]
How to reduce HTTP requests for your WordPress site
The web is sort of a reversed highway: you get tickets for going too slow and bonus points for speeding. Whether you’re “just” a blogger or you have an e-commerce site, your site needs to be fast. We’ve written about what to do to speed up Magento before, and I’ve mentioned caching for WordPress more [...]
One more time: Selling links? Don’t be Stupid.
I’m going to say this one more time (that’s a lie, considering how stupid people have been at this, I’m probably gonna repeat it over and over again): when you sell links, nofollow them. If you don’t, you run the risk of being banned. If you knowingly run that risk, don’t be stupid and don’t [...]
Dirty little secret of Blog SEO
To optimize your blog, you have to do more than just install a few plugins, proper Blog SEO is about optimizing content after getting a few technicalities right.
The complete guide to duplicate content
In doing my work as an SEO, I constantly encounter people who do not “get” the concept of duplicate content. It’s as old as the search engines themselves, and SEO’s have been fixing it since day one, but we apparently still need to do more about it. That’s why I decided to take some time [...]
Should Themes or Plugins do your SEO?
My take on this might be clear to you, if it’s not: I am building the most complete WordPress SEO plugin out there and I recently wrote a post on the topic. There’s certainly parts of this, like proper heading structures and clean HTML that are task of the theme, but titles and descriptions are [...]
Open Source, Motivations & Business
A hefty discussion has been going on about people’s motivations to develop Open Source software, starting with Alex King’s blog post and followed up by many others including Weblog Tools Collection. I disagree wholeheartedly with some of Alex’s statements. Chris Olbekson did a post I agree with more, and he also asked for my opinion [...]
Yoast redesigned & bye bye OrangeValley
Some of you might have noticed: Yoast.com has changed, as usual because I, its founder, have changed. The site has gotten a new design over the last few days, and new copy on quite a few of its static pages. The reasons for the redesign were plentiful, but most important: the site had to look [...]
WordPress SEO Update
WordPress SEO has a new version: 0.1.4. It took me quite some time, but there were a few bugs that really needed fixing in the plugin before I could continue adding features, options and more. These are fixed now, please grab the latest update from WordPress.org. The most important bug that was fixed is the [...]
