Posts Tagged ‘word press’

Top 5 Essential WordPress Plugins

Monday, January 12th, 2009

WordPress is definately my favourite new toy at the moment and I can not for the life of me understand why I did not start using it long before now.  In the past I have always opted to develop my own software from scratch, often simply to see if I could manage it but more and more I am finding myself opting for an existing piece of software and just adding a few customisations to meet my requirements, as in the case with WordPress.

Now that I have had a chance to play around with it properly and have a look to see what other people like and dislike about it I have compiled a list of what I consider to be the Top 5 Essential WordPress Plugins.  Each of these are listed below and keeping with the spirit of Lots Of Freebies you will find that each of the plugins are absolutely free:-

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More WordPress Modifications – Meta Description

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

I’ve been quite lucky with my this new Lots of Freebies blog as within a week Google had indexed a few of the blog pages I had created but I knew that was too easy.  Unfortunately the summary that appears below the page title didn’t appear to be appropriate and resembled more about the layout than the content as it basically listed the links within the top navigation bar of the site.  As you can imagine this is not very helpful and it certainly does not make the content look like it has any relevance to the page.

On further investigation I found that WordPress does not include the meta keywords or meta description in the page header… so it appears that I’ve come across another part of WordPress that I need to tweak.  I can actually understand the reasoning behind removing these tags which is that:-

  • WordPress can not read your mind so it cannot create dynamic keyword and descriptions for each page, or at least it cannot with any great focus on the topic.
  • Some search engines no longer use these as they are subject to abuse and those of us who are dishonest often add completely irrelevant keywords in order to obtain a better ranking and exposure.

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