I’m releasing version 1.5.7 of my WordPress Theme Patagonia. In the last few versions of Patagonia, I added some great Theme Options and improved the CSS Style Sheet code. With the new Theme Options, you can set your custom RSS Feed and your Twitter link, directly from the WordPress Dashboard. As…
I took some notes from Google’s Matt Cutts conference at WordCamp 2009 San Francisco. Matt Cutts is one of the heads of Google. He talked about how Google search works and how can you improve your Wordpress Blog for Google.
He says that Wordpress is agreat choice if you want to do better in Google. Wordpress automatically solves a lot of SEO issues. According to Matt, Wordpress takes care of 80-90% of the mechanics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). So, by using Wordpress you are already taking the first big step. However, there are many things you can do to optimze your site. To rank well in google your site needs to be relevant and reputable. You have to be on topic and you have to talk about something that you care about.
About Keywords: You should use categories and tags that are also keywords relevant to your site’s content. Don’t make your categories “cool stuff”. Take a look at my categories: Wordpress, Design, WpThemesPlanet, Patagonia Theme. All those categories are relevant to my site’s content. What I’m trying to say is that I’m not going to use the name of a medication as category because my site’s niche is not about meds. It’s about Wordpress Themes and Blogging Articles. Take this in mind when you build your category list. Make sure to use the keywords you want to rank well for in your posts and articles.
An “Excerpt” is a summary or short description of a full article. In other words, it is a post summary that will be displayed in your articles on the front page of your blog. On the bottom of the post, it will contain a link to the full article. This…
The developers at WordPress just discovered a specific vulnerability in the code. They describe the issue as follows: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user asked for a password reset. As a result of this problem, the first account without…
The Title tags are the words that you can see at the top of your internet browser when you visit a Blog. They basically tell the search engines what the page is about. For example, take a look at the top band of this browser. You will see “Wp Themes Planet | WordPress Themes…
WordPress developers missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for WordPress 2.8.1. Luckily, they got excellent feedback from the WordPress community and were able to fix this small issues. Many followers in the community dug deeper and discovered some areas that were overlooked. With their help, the remaining issues are now fixed in WordPress 2.8.3.…
