Few SEO tips for wordpress plugin “iNove”

H1 tag:

This tag is the most important tag among the tags used in the body of your html page. This theme has the header text in H1 tag which you give main heading to your blog. This is used throughout all pages which is not SEO friendly coding.

Steps to acheive this on your single page blog display.

STEP 1: introduce the below CSS in your style sheet file style.CSS

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.post h1 {
display:block;
margin:0 7px 0 7px;
border-bottom:1px solid #CCC;
padding:0px 5px 3px;
font-size:16px;
font-family:Arial, Verdana,”BitStream vera Sans”;
letter-spacing: 0px;

}
.post h1 a.title {
text-decoration:none;
color:#4C4C4C;
}
.post h1 a.title:hover {
color:#2970A6;
}
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STEP 2: Change the below line in templates/header.php

<h1 id=”title”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>

to <p class=”new”><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></p>

add a simple  CSS for <p class=”new”> into your same CSS file

STEP 3: Change in single.php

From <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

To <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

This will create the blog title in the blog detail page to <H1> tag

Twitter helped me get command on WordPress

I had to get the blog up and ready for my company within a given period which was too small. I was completely new to wordpress, had less command on CSS and less knowledge of PHP. Basically I had only good grip on HTML

WordPress as it is said is very easy to install and start using it very famous blog capibility. The hurdle for me was customized theme which was proposed in my office by our professional graphics designer and few customized plugins proposed requirment.

Same time I got introduced to Twitter and things changed like any thing. I started following people who are wordpress lowers and there tweets are all about wordpress like @iheartwordpress and@wordpress itself. This helped me a lot to get quick hands on configration of wordpress.

Initially I had implemented the inove theme and later I made changes into it and got our own theme into place.  Hoping to get a complete free theme of my own.

Thanks a lot to Twitter.

‘Comment Notifier’ causing spam filter to turn OFF

I am using the very famous spam filter Akismet used widely to avoid spam comments on my wordpress blog. There was a requirement to sent auto email about any new comment to few users. By default the email goes to the owner of blog whenever his/her blog is commented.

When I searched for a plugin I just noticed many people are using the ‘comment Notifier’ plugin. I installed it and using it was very easy. It served our purpose to email multiple including the owner of blog when someone writes a comment on any blog.

The problem which came up was the spam comment filtering of my spam filter plugin Akismet was turned OFF. This caused a ciaos. comment notifier started emailing all the users listed in it for spam comments also and the spam comments were not filtered. We needed to manually delete them or sent to spam folder.

TrackBacks in blogging explained

Person A writes something on their blog.
Person B wants to comment on Person A’s blog, but wants her own readers to see what she had to say, and be able to comment on her own blog
Person B posts on her own blog and sends a trackback to Person A’s blog
Person A’s blog receives the trackback, and displays it as a comment to the original post. This comment contains a link to Person B’s post

Upgrade to wordpress 2.8 Baker

Hi, I was in a dilemma whether to upgrade to wordpress 2.8 or not. But I did upgrade and till now not facing any problems.

I first upgraded my review server where I am using the complete copy of original live wordpress software. Before upgrading I had been through several reviews one of which is When should a person upgrade their WordPress blog? which shares a very useful information to make a upgrade less scary. Also I used the auto upgrade option as I believe in wordpress techies.

My suitation.

I run a blog for which the original theme is completely changed to an extent that you canot make out the original theme

I have also tampered wordpress files and allmost all theme template directory files.

Using plugins for social media links, cloud, popular posts, etc

What I liked in wordpress 2.8?

Multi column dashboard with just a click.

Speed has increased for processing while you post or add plugins.

Awsome themes available. Not of use for me

‘Tweet This’ plugin for wordpress causing the WordPress to hang

Today suddenly my official blog where I am using WordPress 2.7.1 got hung. One of our bloogger had posted his blog and every thing went upside down. I started receiving email from serveral corners of world about the problem in blog. I could not make out first time but the email which is received by the blogger about the post helped me in knowing about the source of error. It says

Warning: fopen(http://th8.us/api.php?url=http://blog.mysite.com/my-post-which-caused-error/&client=Tweet+This+v1.3.9&format=simple) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /home/mysite/public_html/blog.mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/tweet-this.php on line 29

The problem solution is at below link. http://www.answerhero.co.uk/blog/let-the-journey-begin/wordpress-problem-resolved-dodgy-tweet-this-plugin/

The problem was solved by changing the URL service which turns the big URL in to tiny URL. Previuosly I was using TH8.us and now TinyURL.com.

Number of comments on home page and comments page differ using “inove” theme in wordpress

Welcome to the first test case which is about the number of comments displayed below eash blog post.

I am using “inove” template in one of my blog. On the home page  the number of comments displayed are the sum of comments approved after moderation and the comments to be moderated. 

Thus at times you see a difference in the number of comments shown on the home page and the number of comments shown after you go to the comments related to that blog.

I have tested the same on this template but it works absolutely ok. And I cannot change the “inove” template at my main blog.