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My favorite WordPress tip

| September 8, 2007 | 1 Comment
Blogging Challenge - Lorelle on WordPressIn Lorelle's latest blog challenge, she asks us to describe our favorite WordPress tip. She says to think back to when we started experimenting with WordPress, and try to remember what tips we found valuable. I started ... View Post

Videos and excerpts don’t jive – and how to manually create excerpts

| August 7, 2007 | 4 Comments
I just discovered that videos do not show up when you are using excerpts (<?php the_excerpt(); ?>) on certain pages instead of publishing the full content (<?php the_content(); ?>) on the post. I use Viper's Video Quicktags for easily embedding videos in my blogs. Well, ... View Post

Important mod to the Excerpt Reloaded Plugin

| June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment
A new mod to the Excerpt Reloaded Plugin means that now you can make sure that your excerpts are properly formatted with links, bullets, paragraphs and more. Read on... For some reason which I still don't understand, excerpts in WordPress are displayed without any HTML formatting. So ... View Post

Another way to prevent Google from spidering duplicate content: excerpts

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
As mentioned in a previous post, Google penalizes sites for duplicate content. One way of solving this is modifying the robots.txt file. Daily Blog Tips describes another way to prevent Google from finding duplicate ... View Post

You can offer a variety of feeds on your WordPress blog

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
Lorelle has a whole explanation on how to provide more than just post and comment feeds on your blog. She explains how to add category feeds, with or without RSS icons, making them auto-discoverable, and even add customizable keyword search feeds. She also discusses whether it's ... View Post

An Ajax variation on WordPress excerpts

| February 25, 2007 | 0 Comments
The default WordPress excerpt allows you to display a short text from your posts that is easier taken from the post itself, or from the excerpt that you enter in the Write Posts page. At the end of the excerpt, there is a link that takes the reader to the complete version of the ... View Post

The Excerpt Reloaded

| February 24, 2007 | 11 Comments
Update June 6, 2007: There is a problem with closing HTML tags in Kaf's Excerpt Reloaded Plugin. This means that if you define <ul> as one of the HTML tags you want to preserve in your excerpts, you may end up with a page of excerpts that is one big list, since the closing ... View Post