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Correct Mystique Site Title Header

Correct site title headers for WordPress themes. There should only ever be a single header level 1 <h1> instance on any webpage. When duplicate H1 markup was spotted in a theme I was using I decided to fix the theme site title. The theme discussed is the old WordPress Mystique theme. Mystique is one of …

Fastest WordPress Caching System

Really Static is one of the fastest WordPress caching systems. This caching plugin generates static html files. Visitors to the site are served these static html files. As there are no calls made to WordPress or the database page load speeds are fast. Very fast. Unique Very Fast Cache for WordPress The fastest caching system …

Apple Touch Icon Precomposed Not Found

Apple Touch Icon 404 Errors Are you seeing 404 errors for a range of image files called apple-touch-icon.png and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png with a range of size attributes and wondering where these are coming from? No, it's not a WordPress plugin conflict or bug as some 'Pressers have believed. It's bad behaviour by Apple devices - iPhones …

Fix Widget Position

CSS Fix for Text Widget Without Title I previously wrote about using a Text Widget without a Widget Title or Name as a way to gain a small improvement in SEO for a WordPress.com blog (see WordPress Widget Headings) by using a lower order <h> attribute than the <h3> standard mark-up used by the theme. Some …

CSS3 Button Creator for WordPress

WP CSS3 Button Creator Plugin Here's a brand new plugin for WordPress self hosted sites and blogs. WP CSS3 Button Creator makes it easy to generate the code needed for CSS3 buttons. While the code generation part is easy and foolproof, using this code on a WordPress self-hosted site needs a bit more effort than …

Custom Button for Twitter Share

Twitter Share Popup using Custom Button Image Finally, I have a Tweet Button that opens a popup window and uses a custom button image that works. A long time in the making, the project got put on the back-burner several times over the past six months. Yesterday I finally got round to updating my website …

Is Valid HTML Needed for SEO?

Does Validation Failure Affect SEO Negatively? Is Valid HTML Needed for SEO? The simple answer is NO. Html that fails W3C validation does not necessarily adversely affect search engine ranking. I do not mean to imply faulty html is OK, it is not! Common reasons for validation failure are attributes not included in the standard, …

Authorship Markup for WordPress.com

Google Authorship Markup for WordPress.com bloggers. A simple way to include this markup in your blog. No knowledge of HTML is needed, just follow the simple steps outlined in the article

SEO Friendly Website Links

How to use outgoing links to websites without losing page ranking to search engines by having lots of outgoing links. Search engine do not give good value to backlinks when these are on every page of the referring website. Create an HTML widget to on your WordPress.com blog for a list of outgoing links to your friends (or your won) websites and blogs, without losing page value for your blog and blog posts, and and the same time gain the maximum benfit when you place links to other sites in blog posts and pages.