A recent blog entry by Google’s Search Quality Team members Juliane Stiller and Kaspar Szymanski somewhat confusingly gives the impression that Google does not like WordPress-style permalinks.
Does that mean I should avoid rewriting dynamic URLs at all?
That’s our recommendation, unless your rewrites are limited to removing unnecessary parameters, or you are very diligent [...]
Category Archives: WordPress
Does Google Discourage the use of WordPress Permalinks?
September 26, 2008 – 11:06 am
Who’s Using WordPress 5 Years Later
May 27, 2008 – 11:35 am
In honor of WordPress’s fifth birthday, I’ve surveyed about 6000 blogs to see how many are running WordPress. This is the same group that I queried back in January, when I created a spider that harvested the blogs from all of Technorati’s main blogging categories.
CMS
Count
Percentage
WordPress
2178
34.3
Unknown
1523
23.98
Blogger
1207
19.01
Typepad
340
5.35
Movable Type
338
5.32
WordPress.com
136
2.14
As you can see, WordPress dominates the known [...]
Restoring Your WordPress 2.5 Password in the Database
April 14, 2008 – 11:39 pm
WordPress 2.5 introduced a much more thorough password-hashing algorithm with PHPass. That is great for security, but I was afraid that it would make restoring your WordPress password in the database almost impossible. You see, prior to 2.5, if you needed to reset your password, you could just hash it using md5 and [...]
The Right Way to Use JavaScript in Your WordPress Plugin
April 11, 2008 – 10:27 am
Ozh explains how to properly use JavaScript in your WordPress plugins. There are two key parts:
Use wp_enqueue_script() to load external libraries and standalone scripts, instead of generating your own script header tags.
On admin pages, use the admin_print_scripts-[mypage] action hook to register the code on only your plugin’s page, not every admin page.
Both of those [...]
WordPress Database Errors and the Post Hoc Fallacy
April 10, 2008 – 4:48 pm
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit mentioned WordPress today in not-so-flattering terms (emphasis added):
LIEBERMAN CAMPAIGN CRASHED OWN WEBSITE: “The server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured.” That’s like when people send me a link to their underpowered WordPress blog, then it produces a “Database Error” message when too many people [...]
Less Obvious New Stuff in WordPress 2.5
March 29, 2008 – 12:40 pm
WordPress 2.5 has been officially released. The new look of the administrative interface, a Flash-based file uploader, and the plugin auto-installer are the new features that have been getting all of the attention. But here are some less glamorous changes that you still might want to know about.
WordPress no longer allows you the option [...]