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…
Microsoft has been ignoring the advancements in the field of Search Engines and also Targeted Advertising. However with the recent launch of Bing, they decided to start competing with Yahoo! and Google for their slice in the Search Engine business. Two days ago, on July 29th, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power the Yahoo! Search Engine. That said, it is a very smart move for every site and blog to optimize their structures and fit Bing needs. As we already know, Bing has a different algorithm than Google. Given Microsoft’s aggressive nature in fighting competition, it would be a grave mistake to underestimate them.
The recently re-launched Bing Search Engine platform with upcoming versions of Windows OS is about to make Microsoft’s new search engine one of the biggest and most important players in the world of searching. Thus, it is very important to get good rankings in this new engine if you want the share of traffic they can give to your Blog.
So, what exactly they lay emphasis on? As with many of the other big Search Engines, Bing places heavy emphasis on unique site content. They allow higher keyword density than Google Search does. For Bing, it is recommended to keep your pages at least 200 words long and include phrases which people commonly use. Another important point of Bing is having your Blog CSS and HTML validated. I made sure that my Wordpress Theme Patagonia is 100% Valid CSS level 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
Hello everyone! Today I’m releasing version 1.5.4 of my WordPress Theme Patagonia. In this release I added the “Theme Options” and changed some code in the Cascading Style Sheet file (Headings). You can find the Theme Options in Appearance -> Patagonia Options. For the moment you will only see one option, but…
Today I’m releasing version 1.5.2 of Patagonia. In this version I changed the way “Tags” and “Category” pages are displayed. The intention is to avoid duplicated content and improve SEO. One of the mistakes of most themes is that the “category” and “tags” pages display the same content as the index page.…
Hello everyone! Today I’m releasing version 1.5.1 of Patagonia Theme. In this version I added the Sticky Post feature among other small fixes. This is a very nice addition that lets you keep a post at the top of your blog. So if you want to pin a specific article at the top…
Patagonia theme is becoming better and better thanks to your feedback. In this version I made some improvements in the code and added the dropdown menu. This feature is very useful when you add new pages and subpages. If you have many subpages that are nested under one parent page, you can see a dropdown…
This version of Patagonia Theme includes Threaded Comments. A very nice feature that was implemented in WordPress 2.7 and allows you to reply to comments and order them nicely. To activate “Threaded Comments”, just go to Settings, Discussion and check “Enable threaded (nested) comments”. Some minor bugs were fixed to…
