Your categories and keywords are valuable bits of metadata, but WordPress doesn't use them in its meta tags. Even the popular All in One SEO Pack plugin uses only categories, not tags. … [Read more...] about Using categories and tags as meta keywords
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Hal Duncan’s open letter to John C. Wright
Hal Duncan's open letter to John C. Wright — alas, the LiveJournal post to which he's responding has been deleted. It was a pretty awesome piece of bigotry, and I tried to dig it out of my cache for your delectation, but it's gone. Hal gives you the gist, though. (ETA: An … [Read more...] about Hal Duncan’s open letter to John C. Wright
iCal/iPhone ArmadilloCon schedule
My congoing buddy Mike is entering this weekend's ArmadilloCon schedule into an iCalendar. It's public, so you can subscribe on your phone if you like. He has today's all the events in there so far, and I'll take up the data entry chore while he drives if need be. Of course, … [Read more...] about iCal/iPhone ArmadilloCon schedule
Packaging for Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes products
Packaging for Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes products — close-ups from one of the graphic designers. … [Read more...] about Packaging for Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes products
The Blair Witch Panel
The Blair Witch Panel — I think this tops the TorCon 3 panel during which Erin whispered to me, "I will chew my leg off if we don't leave now." The internet being what it is, the song is now on YouTube. … [Read more...] about The Blair Witch Panel
Sharing notes among users
Dashboard Notepad is the simplest way to share notes on your Dashboard. The widget is configurable, so you can choose the minimum role that can edit the notes and the minimum role to be able to read them. … [Read more...] about Sharing notes among users
Including external links in WordPress navigation menus
Sometimes you need to link to something other than a WordPress page in your navigation menu. Perhaps you've built a photo gallery in ZenPhoto. How do you get it into your menu without hand-coding all your links? The Page Links To plugin allows you to do just that. Install the … [Read more...] about Including external links in WordPress navigation menus
Listing child pages
The Codex offers a way to list the children of the current page by adding this to your theme: … [Read more...] about Listing child pages
Removing the category base from permalinks
Search the web for ways of removing the category base from your WordPress permalinks, and you'll come up with a lot of wacky methods that don't really work. They can be quite complicated; this one requires changing two theme files and .htaccess and still produces 404 errors on … [Read more...] about Removing the category base from permalinks
Ordering pages
Ordering pages in WordPress is a huge pain. The developers acknowledge this with a little message on the Edit Page screen: "We know this is a little janky, it'll be better in future releases." The Quick Edit feature makes it a little easier, but you still have to edit lots of … [Read more...] about Ordering pages
