Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.
We recently discussed microformats and microdata, and today we’ll expand a bit more on this topic.
All of us are probably interested in improving our click through rates (CTR) from the search engine results pages (SERPs), and one excellent way to do this is to use microformats. They are a set of agreed upon HTML conventions used to describe content, can give you more control of the snippets displayed in Google SERPs.
WordPress community is ever growing and developers always strive to come out with a better solution. When it comes to SEO, two plugins that come my mind are: All In One SEO Pack and WordPress SEO by Yoast. Of course you’ll need only one from these two plugins for your WordPress based site.
It’s always great to see new developments within the WordPress theme and plugin industry, and Engine Themes are one such newcomer to the market.
Engine Themes is a new WordPress theme company and their first product is the Job Engine theme. Read on to see what we think of it…
One of the tasks I least enjoy when working with WordPress is the chore of updating core, plugins and themes. Here’s a solution you might want to try out
The web has grown exponentially since past few years and has become the best source for information where everyone depends more on the search engines to find different things. Considering this fact, it has become extremely vital for the sites and blogs to be ranked higher in different search results…
You’ve many times seen a particular blog or website based on WordPress with a wonderful appearance, and you have probably wondered what WP theme it is using.
In some cases, you´re not even sure whether it is using WordPress or not. In other cases, you know it or it is quite clear since it´s shown on the footer.
A big happy birthday to the WordPress mayor!
Yes, WP Mayor is 2 years old. It’s been another great year and all the work put into this website has been well worth the time. I also spoke at WordCamp Seville this year, which was a great experience.
There are many shady themes out there, so we have done some research for you and filtered out the wheat from the chaff. We therefore present you with a collection of the best free themes you can lay your hands on.
These free WordPress themes have all been verified to be of high quality, clean code, easy to use and look great.
Ever needed to localize your plugins, themes etc and were left wondering which software you needed to use? Not to worry anymore, because CodeStyling Localization is a plugin that will save the day when it comes to localization.
The WordPress Plugin Directory is due for an update. While it’s great for getting information about specific plugins, it’s not so great for browsing. The lack of filtering, and the poor quality of relevance results are two of the main reasons. I’m proposing a revamp of the plugin directory.
There seems to be a lot of interest lately in rich media snippets, otherwise known as microdata or microformats.
The plugin under review today makes use of this type of data to give us better results in our SEO marketing efforts.
Read on to see how Video SEO for WordPress SEO can improve click throughs from SERPs.
In the WordPress dashboard, posts are displayed in the ‘latest first’ order. This also applies to pages and custom post types. However it is also easy to change this order if you wish to do so. It might be more practical for example, to have them display according to their title, in ascending order.