As a result of last nights post , I dove in and added a check to my Robots Meta plugin that checks whether you're allowing search engines to spider your site. If not, it'll throw an ugly warning on each and every page until you fix it: The code for it is easy, and as I'd like other plugins to start using it as... Read More »

Ok I just had to post this, as it's too funny. I got a Google Alert this afternoon for this post , which mentioned one of my plugins as being listed by Web Designer Magazine . So, I Googled them, as the post didn't link to them, and got this result: Notice something? I know I did: there's no description there.... Read More »

We've written about rankings here before, for instance: how to track them with Google Analytics, part I and part II and even why they are worthless (the latter post by Eduard , who has, starting december 1st, joined us at OrangeValley!!), on top of that, I was using this rank tracker all the time! But... Read More »

Sometimes data imports into WordPress can be a pain, but most of the time, it's pretty darn easy. In a previous project I had to go through the trouble of outputting WXR files and then importing those, but it's really a lot easier if you do a direct MySQL to WordPress import using the WordPress API. I did one this... Read More »

Thanks to Peter Westwoord's WordPress Beta Tester plugin, this blog is on the 2.9 development track again, after having been off trunk for a couple of months. That plugin makes it really easy to switch any WordPress install to the development branch, either for the next "point" release (eg. 2.8. 6 ), or the next major... Read More »