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The SEO Denver Blog is Now Self-Hosted
After a year of hosting the SEODenver.com website on WordPress.com servers, it’s time to finally move on.
WordPress hosting was a good way to get the SEO Denver Blog up quicky and without much forethought…but WordPress.com hosting was always temporary, and finally, the site has moved!
Posted in KWS
Tagged Denver SEO, Hosting, SEO Denver, SEODenver.com, Web Hosting, WordPress, WordPress.com
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How to tell if your WordPress Plugin or Widget is Activated in WordPress
Ever wonder if your widget or plugin is activated on an external site?
Here’s how to find out.
When you register a sidebar widget, you use code like this:
register_sidebar_widget(array('Name of Widget', 'class-of-widget'), 'widget_function');
If you want to check whether the widget is activated (you may want to for a variety of reasons), you can do it like this (the “class-of-widget” value from above will be used in the code below):
Posted in Web Development, WordPress
Tagged Code, Multidimensional Array, PHP, Widget, WordPress, WordPress Development, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Widget
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Incorporate WordPress with Interspire Shopping Cart
I’m going to elaborate on this further (and about Interspire in general), but for those of you who want to make WordPress functions available throughout your shopping cart, here’s how:
Before the closing (see Update below).?> in the init.php file, add the following code:
require(realpath(ISC_BASE_PATH).'/blog-directory/wp-blog-header.php');, where /blog-directory/ is your WP installation. If you installed it in the root directory, then you’d simply need require(realpath(ISC_BASE_PATH).'/wp-blog-header.php');
Update: There is a bug that happens when the include is placed at the bottom of init.php; instead, add require(realpath(ISC_BASE_PATH).'/wp-blog-header.php'); on the line below require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/lib/init.php'); (line 3).
Voila! That simple. Any questions?
Posted in Interspire, WordPress
Tagged Interspire Shopping Cart, Shopping Cart, WordPress, WordPress Integration
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SEO Randomizer: Save the Value of Your SEO'd Links
Update: Now use the SEO WordSpinner plugin to implement this concept.
Use the get_seo_spin() PHP function in your theme’s footer.php file.
Footer links are dropping in SEO value
How to stay relevant while getting great links
ArrayAs a web designer and SEO, I place links in the footers of most of my designs. Clients don’t mind (I always request the link), and it’s a high-quality link. Most small web design and SEO companies do. Footer links have become very spammy, however, and sites try to stuff as many links there as possible.
SEOmoz has an article about footer link optimization and claims that
Footer links may be devalued by search engines automatically
Check out the evidence – Yahoo! says they may devalue footer links, Bill Slawski uncovers patents suggesting the same and anecdotal evidence suggests Google might do this (or go further) as well. Needless to say, if you want to make sure your links are passing maximum value, it’s wise to avoid the footer (particularly the footer class itself).
The era of the PageRank-passing footer links are coming to an end. The search engines have a good reason for devaluing the links — but how can we get the juice back?
Let’s consider the following issues:
- Footer links are being devalued by search engines
- Footer links have a low click-through rate
- Having the same link on every page makes the link less valuable
- Google doesn’t like spam
Posted in Code, SEO, WordPress
Tagged Attribution, Denver SEO, Footer Links, Footer SEO, Google SEO, Nofollow, Nofollow SEO, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO Plugin, SEO Plugins, SEO Tricks, SEO Tutorial, WordPress, WordPress SEO
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How to View All (or more) Posts at once in WordPress Administration
Here’s the deal: I wanted to be able to temporarily see all the posts at once in the WordPress Administration, so I went into the wp-admin folder, and poked around, and became frustrated: it wasn’t that simple!
Go to /wp-admin/includes/post.php and scroll to line 517. You will see
wp("post_type=post&what_to_show=posts$post_status_q&posts_per_page=15&order=$order&orderby=$orderby");
Change the posts_per_page value to whatever you want it to be. Note: deleting the code will not let you view all posts.
WARNING: I don’t ever like to modify the default WordPress files, because when they get updated, you’ll be screwed. This is a only a temporary fix. It will not last if you update WordPress.
Posted in Code, WordPress
Tagged admin, post.php, Posts, View All, WordPress, WP-Admin, wp-includes
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Constant Contact WordPress Widget – Add a Newsletter Signup Form to your Sidebar
This widget adds a Constant Contact signup form to your blog’s sidebar without touching code.
ArrayIncludes options for Title, Button Text, Tag Wrapper, Form ID Code, and Intro Paragraph, show or hide CC link, Safe Subscribe link, and template options.
New: add a form in your page or post by writing [constantcontact] in the content.
How to turn off captions in WordPress 2.6
Turn off da captions, turn off da funk!
I’ve found that many who found my previous article about removing caption from the All In One SEO Pack are interested in disabling the WordPress 2.6 captions altogether. This is very simple to do.
Futureproof way to disable captions
From Otto:
Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
add_filter('disable_captions', create_function('$a','return true;'));
[Edited: Updated with final solution from Otto]. Thanks to King Rat and others who’ve contributed to solving this problem.
If you have any questions, revisions, or…comments, leave a comment!
Creating a Real Estate Website in WordPress — Part 2
ArrayIf you find this article helpful, please share it, or Digg it!
In Part 1 of Building a real estate website in WordPress, you learned about a plugin called FreshPost that we used to set up the basic structure of your real estate website. Using this article, you will be able to display a single listing page that has all the content your real estate website will need.
Posted in Code, Design, Tutorial
Tagged Real Estate, Real Estate Web Design, Real Estate Website, Realtor Website, Tutorial, Web Design, WordPress, Wordpress Real Estate
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Nofollow SEO for your WordPress Functions
Pretty crude idea of nofollow, isn't it?
While working on a recent website, I became frustrated by the lack of nofollow support in many WordPress functions. Make that, most WordPress functions.
There are a few WP functions that I wanted to add nofollow to, so here’s a list and a download link: Read more…