Highlighting WordPress authors in search
Amidst all the news about Google+ and Google social interaction tracking (and yes I will work on & post about that too), Google released some other news today. They said they’re going to be highlighting authors in the search results. I think this is an awesome feature. It means that you’ll see a picture / avatar [...]
Optimising the Facebook Open Graph Protocol
A small note from Joost first: I’m working on a project with Alex Moss from Pleer. He knows an awful lot about the Facebook Open Graph protocol, in fact he did a couple of pretty good plugins for Facebook comments and buttons etc. I asked him to do a guest post about Open Graph here, [...]
Clicky Analytics (getClicky) Review: clean, simple, effective
In my post last week about social buttons, I included code samples for Clicky Analytics. I got some emails asking me why I use Clicky and Google Analytics alongside each other. In this review I want to show you some of the cool features I use from Clicky Analytics (aka getClicky) that make me use [...]
Social Buttons: Adding them to your site & Tracking them
I’ve had a lot of questions recently (like literally, several a day) on how I implemented the social buttons in WordPress, whether I was using a plugin or using a theme. First of all I’m glad to see all of you noticing my social buttons section so much. Second, I’d love to share with you [...]
WordPress Plugin Installation Survey
When you install a new plugin, what do you base the decision to do that on? I’d love to know! So I’ve created a survey, I’ll of course share the results here on the blog. Please fill out the survey below:
All In One SEO Pack to WordPress SEO Migration
So you’ve made the decision and want to migrate from All In One SEO Pack to my WordPress SEO plugin. It seems some people are afraid of taking the big leap. It’s actually fairly easy although it will be partly manual work. You won’t have to rewrite the title or description for any of your [...]
Custom Post Type Snippets to make you smile
So it’s friday, I’ve been coding all day and I thought I’d share some of the cool snippets I’ve come across and/or developed today. I’ve mostly been working with Custom Post Types and Taxonomies, so let me share some of that goodness. Let’s geek out in a bit, but first let me show you why [...]
Archive SEO: archive by topic, not by date
It seems I run into a (WordPress) blog every day that has a full date archive. You’ll know what I mean, a list of links, with one link for every month in the last 3, 4, X years that they published a post in. My buddy Avinash has one (sorry Avinash for using you as [...]
Tracking Google +1 button Interaction in Google Analytics
Today Google introduced the new +1 button, which I of course immediately implemented (see below and, on this specific post, on the right). It comes with an option for a callback function that you can use to track interaction with that button in Google Analytics. The implementation is pretty easy so let’s go ahead and [...]
WordPress SEO Theme Guidelines
It seems every “premium” WordPress theme these days calls itself “SEO friendly”. They’re usually not. In fact, most are crap, I’m sorry to say. So I thought I’d lay down some WordPress SEO Theme “Rules” or “Guidelines”. If you’re not abiding by those rules, you’ll never get the “Yoast says it’s SEO friendly” sticker, sorry. [...]
