Upgrading issues with WordPress MU
I was upgrading a WordPress MU site we work on and came across an annoying issue: core update wouldn’t work the way it’s supposed to. I got the following error: After a bit of Googling I found a thread in the WordPress forums that contained a gem of a fix: In the file /wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php change [...]
A Migration to WordPress MU
I’ve been working on one of the largest WordPress MU projects we’ve taken on so far the last couple of days. We’ve been migrating the blogo.nl blogs (a Dutch blog network started in 2005) over to WordPress MU. There were several things in this project that were nice to figure out, I’ll go over two [...]
WordPress MU development, I love it!
At OrangeValley, we’re currently working on migrating a large Dutch blog network over from it’s own proprietary system to a WordPress Multi User install, one of our more serious WordPress MU development projects. There’s quite a few things about WordPress MU that I like, but what I like most is, well, that’s it’s WordPress :) [...]
Why I dislike Bo.lt
When I released my updated WordPress SEO article a few weeks back, my buddy Avinash was kind enough to tweet it. He tweeted it, at first, with a bo.lt link. Bo.lt is a sharing service that allows you to basically make a copy of a page and add some notes or even some changes to [...]
The ethics of SEO
The type of SEO I help my clients do and promote to you using this blog is often labeled white hat SEO because it stays within Google’s and other search engines guidelines. Other SEO’s don’t care about Google’s guidelines as much and do what’s called “black hat SEO”. Far too often though, black hat SEO [...]
Over-Optimization vs Optimization
So Matt said something at SXSW last week about Google introducing a filter / penalty / change. As my inbox is already overflowing with emails from people asking whether they should stop optimizing their site and/or using my plugin, I thought I’d do a quick post. What Matt said was vague at best but he [...]
WordPress SEO Webinar with SEO Braintrust
Last week I did a webinar with SEO Braintrust, which was incredibly fun. So much fun in fact that I have asked Andrea Warner, who hosted that webinar, to help me with setting up a paid webinar series around WordPress SEO, going into the subject matter even more deeply. More news on that will be [...]
Geek or geek chic?
The public votes geek chic, hands down. Joost de Valk could be likened to what the entertainment business calls a “Triple Threat”. Only instead of wowing fans with singing, dancing, and acting, Joost wows the business world by rocking SEO, web development and marketing. (And occasionally building tiny LEGO empires… but that’s neither here nor [...]
WordPress robots.txt Example
Robots.txt is a way to tell a search engine which pages it’s allowed to spider, to “see”, and which pages it cannot “see”. Because of that, robots.txt differs from meta name=”robots” tags, which tell search engines on those individual pages, whether they can include them in their index or not. The difference is subtle, but [...]
Use Gravity Forms to submit custom post types
In my previous post I explained how I used the Types plugin to create a new custom post type. That custom post type will be used to display a table of supported themes for my WordPress SEO plugin, and is therefor called wpseo-theme. Now the trick here is that I want users to be able [...]
