Category Archives: WordPress

SEO Randomizer: Save the Value of Your SEO'd Links

Posted on December 19, 2008

Search engines attribution link value is falling for SEOs and web designers.

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?  Read more…

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
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Nofollow SEO for your WordPress Functions

Posted on November 7, 2008
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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…

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SteveSpangler.com Web Design Launched

Posted on November 4, 2008

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Visit Katz Web Design-developed SteveSpangler.com

As announced in August, Steve Spangler chose Katz Web Design to develop their blog. Their previous blog was aging and didn’t provide the functionality they needed. I was provided with a design by Blake Sumrall (at Steve Spangler, Inc.) and was tasked with converting it to a website.

The development of this site required lots of tricks that convert WordPress into more of a CMS (Content Management System). Read on to learn some of the WordPress customization.  Read more…

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How to View All (or more) Posts at once in WordPress Administration

Posted on September 4, 2008

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.

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MomJobSeeker.com launched!

Posted on August 7, 2008
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Visit MomJobSeeker.com

Mom Job Seeker prepares mothers re-entering the workplace after their kids have grown up a bit. April Stensgard, owner, contacted Katz Web Design with the goal of having a business blog that would facilitate online event registration.

Faced with this task, I took WordPress, added the eShop plugin, and Event Calendar and Event Manager (now defunct) and rolled it into a custom event management solution.  Read more…

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Get medium image size in WordPress

Posted on May 27, 2008

This is for everyone who’s been trying to find out how to get the medium image size of a post attachment in WordPress:

You’ve got to send the function the ID you’re trying to get the medium images for.

$medium = wp_get_attachment_image_src($picture->ID, 'medium', false);
$med_url = $medium[0];
$med_width = $medium[1];
$med_height = $medium[2];

There are a lot more things you can find out by analyzing wp-includes/gallery.php.

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How I fixed WP-DownloadManager 404 errors

Posted on May 13, 2008

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I use LesterChan‘s Download Manager plugin, and it’s great. Good interface, simple purpose. 

I recently found out that after upgrading a client’s site to WP 2.5, WP-DownloadManager was no longer working.  I followed the documentation on the plugin website, including resetting the permalink structure, but nothing worked.

For some reason the re-write wasn’t working properly: all the downloads were giving 404 errors.  I couldn’t figure it out, so I dove into the code.  I found the part of the plugin that rewrites the download links, and found the problem.  Read more…

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Admin Drop Down Menu plugin does not break WordPress 2.5 Image Uploader [updated]

Posted on April 4, 2008

The plugin has been updated. The multitudes may celebrate fewer clicks!

As sad as it is to admit (since the plugin has saved me thousands of clicks), Admin Drop Down Menu by Ozh breaks the WordPress image uploader. If you’ve tried everything WordPress tells you to do in order to fix that Image Gallery feature and multiple image upload capability in WordPress 2.5, and disable this plugin.  Read more…

WordPress 2.5 help pages

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