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Less: a WordPress plugin

Less is more.
Less is a WordPress plugin that makes reading posts more intuitive for your many readers. With Less, when readers click a (more…) link on your post “teaser”, they see the full article on the screen, not just the part after the (more…).

Nofollow considered harmless

Google introduced the rel=”nofollow” attribute earlier this year; most blogging platforms now support it. Its initial promise of ridding the web of blog comment spam has not happened, and there has been a lot of conspiracy theory about the “real” reasons Google would do this. But it’s hard to see what all the fuss is [...]

Safe Title: a WordPress plugin

Here’s an amusing hack to fix a niggling problem in the WordPress default theme. I came up with this soon after I started using WordPress, but I recently noticed that this small annoyance had generated a discussion on Mathibus.com. My fully automatic solution is now ready for a waiting world.

Code Markup: WordPress plugin

Code Markup is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to include program code samples in your posts. You can even include HTML markup in the code sample; Code Markup magically knows which characters should be displayed as code and which should be rendered as HTML.

Google Sitemaps Deconstructed

Google Sitemaps seemed like a moderately good idea at first. A standard format for information is always good for interoperability. But it’s hard to see Google Sitemaps ever really being useful to web search engines. Some features seem to add little to what Google already does, and others seem entirely useless.

Google Sitemaps

Google Sitemaps is a good idea — it’s a standard XML format for site maps. Google (and anybody else) can use such a sitemap to get information about site structure without having to crawl the entire site. The sitemap can contain information about the URLs in your site, including how often they are updated and [...]

Top Cat: a WordPress plugin

Top Cat is a WordPress plugin that allows you to specify a main category for your posts. Even though WordPress posts can have more than one category, you may want to specify which of them is the main category. Top Cat lets you do this and also provides template tags for displaying the main category [...]

Evermore: a WordPress plugin

Evermore is a WordPress plugin that automatically abbreviates all posts when they appear on a multiple-post page such as the main blog page. Readers will simply see a “teaser” rather than the full post. It has the same effect as putting

WordPress permalinks should be slashed

In WordPress 1.5, permalinks must end in a slash, otherwise the nextpage tag will not work.

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