WordPress 2.6 is live…
WordPress 2.6 is out, almost one month ahead of its planned release date, named “Tyner” after the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner that makes the new WordPress release a more powerful CMS. Other features have been added including fixing over 194 bugs from pevious version.
Matt has prepared a brief video tour of 2.6, if you have 3 minutes and 29 seconds to spare, it’s worth a watch:
Homepage Excerpts Wordpress Plugin
Homepage Excerpts for SEO
Most of us are aware that search engines including Google will penalize websites that contain duplicate content. Ideally, therefore, the content of your posts should be displayed fully in one location only, and that is the single post page and no where else.
Where as most of u display full posts on the homepage as well, and the posts remain being displayed in full even when they slip out of the homepage even on others pages.
Davids Homepage Excerpts plugin can be used to reduce this duplicate content while keeping full posts on the homepage. So you can set your homepage to display full posts and then other pages will only display excerpts of the posts. An exmaple is shown below:
As our websites take a week plus to get indexed by search engines it means our only full article will be on the single post page and all othere will be displayed as excerpts and hence remove dupliate content.
Another plus point is it will make the experience of your readers as the contetn is simpiifed on pages 2 onwards and makes it more manageable to read.
Homepage Excerpts for Layout
Here you have the control on how you would like your layout, you may choose to have full homepage using full posts or have the option to have 50% split between full and excerpt posts on you homepage, you have complete control over this.
Notice that you can also select if the plugin should extract the custom excerpt from Wordpress (the one that you insert manually when writing an entry) or if it should automatically grab the first X words of each post, where X is a number that can be specified on the options panel.
Installation
- Download and unzip the plugin
- Uploade the file homepage-excerpts.php to your plugin directory. (Usually
located in wp-content/plugins/) - Log into the Wordpress control panel, then go into “Plugins” and activate the
plugin - Still inside the Wordpress control panel go into “options” and then “Homepage Excerpts”
- Update the plugin options as appropriate
Click here for my other Recommended WordPress Plugins
Revolution Theme- Now Free!!
We all heard abour Brian Gardner- top notch Revolution themes which normally come with a fee to get your hands on them. Now Brian’s opened up the theme for FREE! The theme is a 3-column and widget ready vesion of the popular Revolution series.
The theme has us in mind and not so much web designers, so theres a wide range colors used and theres talk of adding other stylesheets with more choice of colors, so life just became easier.
Here is a screen shot of the free revolution theme
As you can see the theme is close to the premium version, if you to upload the theme As you can see above, Brian stays true to the Revolution series with this theme.
I liked the theme so much it was used on my other two my blogs, which you can see as a demo at saltwater aquarium guide or pellet stove guide, if you like to download it click here.
WordPress Plugin: Show125 ads
Like many other people I display the 125×125 ads on my blog to earn some extra money with it, and every month we need to amend my template to display the relevant ads.
What the Show125 widget can do for your blog
We all love the concept of widgets: drap n’ drop, easy to edit, easy to place, easy to remove and most themes can handle widgets.
WordPress 2.6 and Beyond
WordPress 2.6 is in the works right now and is scheduled for release in August this year, and some new cool new features are expected.
Tracking of WordPress 2.6
1. Test Run WP 2.6 - Wordpress 2.6 is still in very early stages of development, but you can still try it out without messing up your blog. You can check out the WP 2.6-bleeding version using username admin and password demo at http://wp.chrisjohnston.org/wp-admin.
SEO Tweaks using “All in One SEO”
We all want to reach number one in the search engines and this guarantee’s your lion share of traffic for that keyword, but to reach number one there is many factors and tweaks that we can do to improve this.
There is a plugin for WordPress that will do many of these tweaks without spending the time, it’s called All in One SEO. The plugin does all the hard work by building correct titles and search engine optimizations steps so you just need to write great content.
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
After the release of WordPress 2.5 earlier in the week, I have finally got around to looking at upgrading my version to the latest. So I activated my automatic upgrade plugin and set about the upgrade process. The whole upgrade took me around 10 minutes to run though, I choose to use the manual upgrade path and all went well.
Then with in seconds I was getting comments (spam) for my approval, that when I noticed my plugins was still switched off. So quickly turning on askimet and it all stopped and I spent another 10 minutes activating all my other plugins. Tip: take a screen shot of all your plugins before upgrade as it make it easy in future.
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