WordPress Search Engine Optimisation

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm in

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of crafting a site’s content so that the site achieves higher rankings in the various search engines. There are many WordPress plugins that claim to improve your site’s SEO but, in reality, there are no “magic bullets”. Effective SEO isn’t something you can add to a site. it’s part and parcel of how the content is crafted.

If you really want to improve SEO on your WordPress site (as opposed to wanting a quick fix), here are a few tips:

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WordPress 2.8 and eShop

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 11:44 am in

Many people have been contacting me saying there may be issues with eShop and WordPress 2.8. Looking through the issues reported with WP2.8 I have decided to delay updating eShop until after WP 2.8.1 is released. As soon as I can after that I will make any necessary changes to get things working again.

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WordPress & Conditional Comment CSS

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 4:54 pm in

Conditional comments provide a way of serving specific content to various versions of Internet Explorer — from IE 5 upwards.

The Benefits

Conditional comments can be used to serve additional, version-specific, CSS to IE browsers — allowing you to deal with inconsistent displays in earlier IE versions in a way that doesn’t impact on the display in the better browsers.

Unlike CSS hacks, conditional comments won’t “bite back” every time a new version of IE is released. And they also offer version-targetting that is extremely difficult to achieve using standard hacks.

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Avoid Adding Images to a WordPress Gallery

Posted on June 26, 2009 at 12:59 pm in

As outlined in The WordPress Gallery, uploading an image whilst working on a page creates an association between the image and the page. This association is used to create the final, page-specific, gallery.

Occasionally, you want to add an image to a page but don’t want it to appear in that page’s gallery. How do you do that?

The answer is a lot simpler than you might think…

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The WordPress Gallery

Posted on June 26, 2009 at 12:31 pm in

The native WordPress Gallery feature allows you to add a simple image gallery to a Post or Page on your blog. However, there seems to be very little documentation on using the Gallery in the WordPress Codex, so here’s a quick how-to.

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