The Unofficial Wordpress Support Thread

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Years of working with wordpress theme and plugin development for clients and running innumerable affiliate and adsense website all powered by wordpress has made me capable enough of a deeper understanding of wordpress.

So I decided to open up this thread.

- Post your wordpress related questions.
- Places you get stuck at.
- Discuss Possibilities with wordpress.
 


All in one SEO plugin alternative?

Dreamhost, unbelievably prohibits the use of the all-in-one-seo plugin for being a processor hog, apparently they whip out this tos rule as a grounds for canceling 'troublesome' accounts pushing the imaginary unlimited space and bandwith allowance on shared hosting.
Out of paranoia I pulled the plugin, the scraped google results text isn't nearly as compelling as tailored meta text.
I'm late getting acquainted with wordpress 3.0, is seo substantially better?

Thanks PC
 
jake321 said:
Dreamhost, unbelievably prohibits the use of the all-in-one-seo plugin for being a processor hog, apparently they whip out this tos rule as a grounds for canceling 'troublesome' accounts pushing the imaginary unlimited space and bandwith allowance on shared hosting.
Out of paranoia I pulled the plugin, the scraped google results text isn't nearly as compelling as tailored meta text.
I'm late getting acquainted with wordpress 3.0, is seo substantially better?

Thanks PC
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I'd take a look at the Platinum SEO pack and/or the Headspace SEO plugin. I've heard good things about both.
 
just make sure your plugins folder can't be viewed (drop an index file in there if there isn't already one and tell them to fuck off. They shouldn't have any way of knowing you're using that plugin, and it doesn't suck down resources, they're just cheap bastards
 
I have a Wordpress MU question for you:

I'm building my most ambitious site with wordpress. I'm starting to question my site's structure and I'm thinking I probably should have gone with a different one. My site isn't a blog. While I thought that wordpress would help me in Google, I seem to have suddenly fallen out of G SERPs for all my recently rising keyphrases.

Here's how I have it set up (be gentle with your flaming if this is fucked):

localserviceproviders.com
california.localserviceproviders.com/los-angeles/specific-service.php

My subdomains seem to not be holding their SERPs. I was climbing for some long tail searches with no effort and now I'm completely nonexistent.

For the main domain, I'm doing pretty good for some pretty good terms like "find local serviceprovider" etc. But for the subdomains, Google seems to have said thanks but no thanks.

Also, I'm having page load time issues and thinking about scrapping Wordpress MU and gong with a handcoded template. I always seem to have more success with handcoded pages.

Any help would be much appreciated. I've put a lot of time into this and I'm getting discouraged. Thanks.
 
dchuk said:
just make sure your plugins folder can't be viewed (drop an index file in there if there isn't already one and tell them to fuck off. They shouldn't have any way of knowing you're using that plugin, and it doesn't suck down resources, they're just cheap bastards
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Well it does leave a footprint. But I agree about them being cheap bastards.

DocApocalypto said:
I have a Wordpress MU question for you:

I'm building my most ambitious site with wordpress. I'm starting to question my site's structure and I'm thinking I probably should have gone with a different one. My site isn't a blog. While I thought that wordpress would help me in Google, I seem to have suddenly fallen out of G SERPs for all my recently rising keyphrases.

Here's how I have it set up (be gentle with your flaming if this is fucked):

localserviceproviders.com
california.localserviceproviders.com/los-angeles/specific-service.php

My subdomains seem to not be holding their SERPs. I was climbing for some long tail searches with no effort and now I'm completely nonexistent.

For the main domain, I'm doing pretty good for some pretty good terms like "find local serviceprovider" etc. But for the subdomains, Google seems to have said thanks but no thanks.

Also, I'm having page load time issues and thinking about scrapping Wordpress MU and gong with a handcoded template. I always seem to have more success with handcoded pages.

Any help would be much appreciated. I've put a lot of time into this and I'm getting discouraged. Thanks.
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For the first problem, just let it sit for a bit and continue building links if you were already. (It might be the Google Dance, oh noes, then you'll never get back in the SERPs!)

For the page load time issues, trying a caching plugin and see if that helps the problem.
 
Pulse, what do you consider the must have wordpress plugins for affiliate marketing?

What are the common errors you see people make using wordpress?
 
I am trying to learn how to customize wordpress templates (and learn make my own). Do you have any tutorials you could link to that would show which files and where in them needs to be edited for customization?

I know HTML, CSS and PHP already so figuring out the code when I find it isn't really a problem, it's just navigating all of the files in wordpress and its themes.

Also, any highly recommended plugins for any and all purposes?

Thanks!
 
duffyweb said:
I am trying to learn how to customize wordpress templates (and learn make my own). Do you have any tutorials you could link to that would show which files and where in them needs to be edited for customization?

I know HTML, CSS and PHP already so figuring out the code when I find it isn't really a problem, it's just navigating all of the files in wordpress and its themes.

Also, any highly recommended plugins for any and all purposes?

Thanks!
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Who Needs University? The Best Nettuts+ Screencast Training Courses | Nettuts+

Near the bottom of that page there is a full video series that pretty much covers all of Wordpress theme design and customization
 
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WP question for you: whenever I try to make an H1 headline on a page, it ends up looking too small -- and the only way to enlarge it so it looks headline-sized is to use an H3. Any idea what might be happening, or is this a theme specific thing?

Thanks for your help --
 
PDXOR said:
WP question for you: whenever I try to make an H1 headline on a page, it ends up looking too small -- and the only way to enlarge it so it looks headline-sized is to use an H3. Any idea what might be happening, or is this a theme specific thing?

Thanks for your help --
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that's a css issue, follow that link I posted up earlier and start reading up on css styling
 
All in one SEO alternatives

abroms said:
I'd take a look at the Platinum SEO pack and/or the Headspace SEO plugin. I've heard good things about both.
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Thanks

I looked up the recommended alternatives to the All-in-one-SEO plugin

Code: 
http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/   wp 3.0 addressed in last revision.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/platinum-seo-pack/  up to wp 2.9.2
 
This is what I love about this forum. I initiated this thread and dchuck and the other guys took over in an excellent manner, while I was away.

Listen to what he has to say and go through the links he has posted - great stuff!
 
PDXOR said:
Got a question on themes. I'm using "theme A" for http://www.mydomain.commydomain.com and want to create a subdomain music.mydomain.com with "theme B". Is that possible?
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Since you need to use a subdomain I don't think the MU function would work (by default it puts it into a directory) So you'd have to do another install. I think. Not 100% sure.
 
PDXOR said:
Got a question on themes. I'm using "theme A" for mydomain.com and want to create a subdomain music.mydomain.com with "theme B". Is that possible?
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Sorry for the late reply - but I thought I'd answer this anyway.

Alright, you can achieve the above with the same wordpress install without the need for WPMU or a fresh installation.

Download and install - WordPress › WP Subdomains WordPress Plugins - this will convert your categories into subdomains after you've created them.

Once done, download and install - Wordpress Themed Categories Plugin | Mike’s Downloads Page

And configure the theme you want for the subcategory - Voila! you're done!
 
A WP question for you -- driving me crazy:

-I set my blog posts to post to a static page called "Blog"
-The blog page is picking up the header image and nav bar from the welcome page, and the result is a double nav bar and double header image.
-I assume index.php is controlling the blog page styling, but I can't figure out what changes to make to index.php to get rid of the extra image and navbar.

Is there a conditional statement or other workaround so the blog page uses the page template of my choice instead of index.php?
 
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