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Proper3 Blue Magazine Portal Free WordPress Theme

RSSFeed — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:18:44 +0000

Proper3 WordPress Theme

Blue Color Magazine Portal Style

Free Premium Proper3 WordPress Theme

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Why All-In-One SEO Deactivates

RSSFeed — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:20:07 +0000

In the past I’ve been pretty pissy about the All-In-One SEO plugin from Michael Torbert automatically deactivating itself after updates. My reasoning:

If you update and forget to re-activate (somewhat hard to do since it reminds the shit out of you on every page of the admin), it could cause problems.
We are forced to see Michael’s large promotional/donation blocks up in our faces above where we can reactivate. I’m all for plugin authors making as much money as they can, but this seemed to me a bit too far.
I really like the plugin and use it on all my sites and wish it was closer to my version of perfect.

But Michael recently stopped by to explain his side, which is interesting, so I thought I’d update the record, as it were.

Michael Torbert:

… a site complained that a new feature damaged their site’s search engine results placement. They finally admitted that they were incorrect in this assumption, and that the cause was something else unrelated to the plugin, but their original assessment was that a new feature hurt them.

From then on, any update which introduces new options (not just behind the scenes changes) require the user to reactivate the plugin from the settings page, to make sure that they can review the options.

I can understand this line of thinking. Forcing the user to visit the options page may be the closest thing to getting them to think about the plugins options as is possible.

Michael is also aware of the potentially negative experience:

I’m aware of how it looks, and I understand that it’s annoying for some users. I spent a lot of time thinking about it and consulted with a number of other people in the community when contemplating the decision about what to do.
Unfortunately, in this case there was no way to make everyone happy, so I sided with ensuring that nobody could ever say (even if incorrectly as was the case) that new features introduced caused harmful effects to their sites SEO.

Perhaps a better way?

Let’s say that the moment you decided to upgrade the plugin to a version with new features, the google bot decided to stroll by your site. The plugin is momentarily deactivated, so the google bot sees lots of differences. The canonical tag is gone, the meta tags are gone, the page title is different. Surely that isn’t good for SEO.

Perhaps this plugin could save the currently running version number in the wp_options table. Then when an upgrade is performed, it could update this but also save the previous version number. Then instead of deactivating itself, it could display a message (rather boldly, like the current message) which explains what is new with the plugin and things you should watch for.

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DailyNote WordPress Theme

RSSFeed — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:36:07 +0000

DailyNote WordPress Theme

Black White Color Portfolio Magazine Paper

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Dum Dum Free WordPress Theme

RSSFeed — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:04:53 +0000

Dum Dum Free WordPress Theme

Portfolio, Personal, Magazine Simple Design

2 Column WP Right Sidebar Free Dum Dum WordPress Theme

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Redirect Mobile Users to a Mobile WordPress Theme

RSSFeed — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:17:35 +0000

Let’s say you want to have a special theme for your WordPress site for mobile users. You don’t want to use a pre-canned solution or anything third-party, you just want to create and design the theme yourself. So what you need to happen is for the site to detect mobile users and server up an alternate theme instead. Here is how I might do it.

1. Detect for mobiles

You could do it by measuring screen size with JavaScript, but that’s probably not the most solid technique. It can also be done server side with PHP, check out this project for doing so. Using that code, you could use something like this at the top of your header.php file:

include('mobile_device_detect.php');
$mobile = mobile_device_detect();

if ($mobile==true) {
  // This is a mobile device
} else {
 // This is NOT a mobile device, it's a full-featured browser
}

2. Install the Theme Switch plugin

It is available here. This is a sweet plugin for a variety of reasons. I like using it for developing themes right on live sites. We’ll use it in a different application here though. What the plugin does is create special URLs for your site that activate different themes.

http://your-website.com/?theme=Your_Mobile_Theme

3. Combine

Now you can test for mobiles, then redirect to a special theme-switching URL to activate your mobile theme:

include('mobile_device_detect.php');
$mobile = mobile_device_detect();

if ($mobile==true) {
  header( 'Location:
  http://your-website.com/?theme=Your_Mobile_Theme' ) ;
} else {
 // Do nothing, regular browser.
}

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Remove Title from Blogroll

RSSFeed — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:27:25 +0000

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Typically when you use one of WordPress functions to output a list of “stuff” from WordPress, you can pass a parameter to eliminate the “title” that WordPress likes to put in there by default. For example, with wp_list_categories you pass along “title_li=” with nothing after the equals sign to remove the title that normally accompanies the output. With the function to output links (e.g. blogroll), you use the function wp_list_bookmarks, but unfortunately using that same parameter the same way is ineffective at removing the title.

Quick Fix

Pass the categorize parameter (blank) in addition to the title_li parameter (blank) and you’ll be set!

<?php wp_list_bookmarks("categorize=&title_li="); ?>

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WordPress tip : change excerpt length depending of the category

RSSFeed — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:03:47 +0000

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No need to modify your theme files. Simply paste the code into your functions.php file. Don’t forget to change the category ID on line 3!

add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
function my_excerpt_length($length) {
    if(in_category(14)) {
        return 13;
    } else {
        return 60;
    }
}

Thanks to Dave Redfern for contributing to WpRecipes!

WordPress tip : change excerpt length depending of the category

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