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Get Rid Of Comments

Posted on July 31, 2009 at 12:19 pm in
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How can I get rid of all comment links and forms in my theme? Step1 Make a back up copy of your theme. You’re going to be editing quite a few template files, so it pays to keep an original copy somewhere safe in case: You change your mind Everything goes pear-shaped

Hiding Header Text

Posted on July 30, 2009 at 12:04 pm in

I am using an image as my blog header but, in order to not display the Blog Title & Tag Line, I have blanked these out in my settings. I know this is SEO suicide, but I do not know the correct way to hide this text in the header of my site and yet…

Widgets & Sidebars

Posted on July 29, 2009 at 11:40 am in
Sidebar items

Every time I add widget (e.g. ‘Text’ or ‘Categories’) to the sidebar, the default sidebar content disappears. This is common behaviour for widget-ready sidebars. The widgets replace the default sidebar content – even if you’ve only added a single widget. You can re-populate the sidebar in one of two ways.

WordPress Search Engine Optimisation

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

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…

Avoid Adding Images to a WordPress Gallery

Posted on June 26, 2009 at 12:59 pm in
Keep out of the WordPress gallery

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…

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