Tag Archives: wordpress

Favourite plugins 4: Wenderhost Subpages widget

I only found this plugin a few weeks ago, but it achieves something I’ve always thought WordPress was sorely missing.  In other, non-Wordpress based websites, it’s common to see a main navigation along the top of the web page, and a ‘sub’ navigation down one side of the page. Out of the box, WordPress does [...]
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Favourite plugins 2: My Page Order

This one is critical for the layout of any blog, as the build in WordPress page ordering function is in their own words crap ’clunky’ and despite ongoing promises, it’s still not fixed in WordPress 2.7.  There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the default page order WordPress assigns, which makes creating a sensible [...]
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Favourite plugins 1: All In One SEO Pack

There are a huge range of SEO plugins for WordPress, but I like this one as it focuses on the things I believe to be important in SEO, and ignores the rest.  Most WordPress themes are designed with SEO in mind, and certainly WordPress, with it’s pings, linking structure, text focused content and customised URL [...]
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DMOZ editors for hire?

Shock!! horror!! Is nothing in this world sacred any more?  After a week of discussions in forums and on blogs about the value of a DMOZ listing for your website’s Page Rank, I’d kind of given up on getting Gite Guru listed in this mystical directory.  For those of you in the dark about DMOZ, [...]
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