I recently noticed that I was having an issue with WordPress creating duplicate url’s that were being indexed by Google. Duplicate url’s in search engine results is what is known as duplicate content, which can penalize you in search engines. The url’s were being formatted like this. http://www.example.com/pagename/comment-page-1/ Here is the original url. http://www.example.com/pagename/ Both [...]

I recently wrote a plugin to add the “nofollow” rel attribute to archive links in WordPress. I had a request to write a plugin that does the same thing for categories in WordPress, so I created one. This plugin allows you to display category links in your theme without giving them any pagerank value. The [...]

The function wp_head; found in the header.php template file adds unnecessary tags to your WordPress template. These tags are the RSD, or Really Simple Discovery, link, the Windows Live Writer Link and the WordPress version number. I wanted to add this important function to my themes, but I don’t want those tags that WordPress adds [...]

I recently wrote my first WordPress plugin. I was looking for a way to add the “nofollow” rel attribute to archive links in WordPress. I needed to be able to use them in my theme without giving them any pagerank value. I found that the best way to do it was to create a plugin [...]

Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin that keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. I have used it for almost as long as I have used WordPress, and it was a great plugin in its time. But [...]