We’ve seen the light and are converting to the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin on all of our sites. However, when migrating from your existing SEO plugin to the (superior) Yoast plugin, there are a few tricks along the way that will help your conversion go seamlessly and keep your pages displaying properly. This tutorial walks you through the migration from the All in One SEO Pack to the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. Watch and learn – you (and your ...

By default, WordPress prints a lot of extra code to the “head” section of webpages that it generates. For example, it prints a “generator” meta tag that identifies the site as a WordPress site–that can serve as a flag to hackers that specifically target WordPress sites. In this video tutorial we’ll learn a quick and easy way to clean the following items from your WordPress installation:

Here’s code to install in your functions.php to follow the above ...

Most simple WordPress templates/themes generally employ a single sidebar. But, in keeping with WordPress’ open architecture, you can easily add a second (or 3rd or 4th) sidebar to your site’s theme. And, you aren’t restricted to using your sidebar in the typical sidebar area–you can put your new sidebar in a header, a footer, or any other area in your template. Additional sidebars let you place any WordPress Widget (such as Recent Posts, Pages, Links/Blogroll, Calendar, Tag Cloud, as well ...

Questions from Readers

The great thing about writing our book, WordPress 3.0 Search Engine Optimization, is we get to hear from all those readers who have taken our material and put it to work in the field. Today, we’ve got a fascinating question from Robert, who asks that question we confront every day in one way or another: Just how far should I trust Google’s sophistication?

Hi Michael,

I’m currently reading your Packt book on WordPress SEO, and I have a quick question ...

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How to Remove link rel=’prev’ and link rel=’next’ from WordPress Head (in WP 3.0+)

WordPress, in its default state, prints a lot of excess code to the head section of webpages. One element that always annoyed me were two entries that always appeared:

<link rel='prev' title='' href='' />
<link rel='next' title='' href='' />

These entries are recommended for web usability for disabled persons–consider that before removing them. We were looking for a ...

Is WordPress Stripping iFrame Elements From Your Content?

Elements like Google Map embeds get stripped out. Here’s the Fix.

If you have ever tried to enter a Google Map embed into a WordPress page or post, you’ve noticed that switching between “Visual” and “HTML” view in the page or post edit window strips the iFrame out–leaving you with broken code that displays nothing. Luckily, there is a fix.

You’ll need to ...

How to Insert Images into WordPress Posts and Pages

Inserting images into WordPress posts and pages can usually trip up new users–we get asked about this a lot. Once you do it a few times succesfully, though, you’ll feel like a master. What follows is a quick and dirty overview of how to do it.

1. Open a New Post or Page, or Edit and Existing Post or Page

The first thing ...

Is WordPress Good for SEO?

We get asked a lot about WordPress’ suitability for search engine rankings. WordPress’ reputation and having a sound foundation for SEO has certainly seeped into the public’s mind. For the most part, the reputation is deserved. This site, TastyPlacement.com runs on WordPress, and ranks very well for our intended keywords.

There are a few drawbacks with WordPress, but like most things SEO, it’s really about the cumulative effect of everything. Overall, we’d grade WordPress an A- on ...

Glass Onion is a fun and bright WordPress theme, with a lineage based upon the Default WordPress Theme. It has nice professional colors, suitable for a design blog or website. It is CSS- and XHTML-validated.

Download the Free Glass Onion WordPress Theme.

Here at TastyPlacement, we love WordPress and offer WordPress development services.