Posts Filed Under Theme Design.


Showcasing Your Subscription Options For More Traffic

Here’s a great example of how you can increase your traffic and readership by choosing to emphasize your subscription options instead of your advertising. TechiePortal has a great implementation of this.

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January 19, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
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How To Create Unique Content On Every WordPress Tag And Category Page.

Using custom titles and custom descriptions on your WordPress Theme’s tag pages and category pages develops an optimization strategy that reduces duplicate content and provides both readers and search engines with a better view of what your blog is about.

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December 2, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
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Load Up Your Blog Roll Without Overloading Your Blog.

Most bloggers accumulate a lot of links over time. There are social networking sites and blog community sites all over the place, and you just can't help finding more and more blogs that you want to recognize. The problem is that there is only so much you can put on a page, and there are [...]

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September 1, 2007 @ 9:29 pm
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CSS Overflow Hidden - Don’t Let Images Break Your WordPress Design.

Small Potato posted a wide column and negative margins solution to wide images that will break the layout of a lot of WordPress Theme Designs at his WPDesigner blog.
In a short discussion I mentioned that using overflow: hidden; would also serve the purpose. Somehow we ended up agreeing that this wasn't actually a good solution [...]

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August 20, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
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Look Ma! Only One WordPress Loop!

Is less really more? Heck if I know, I'm not much of a philosopher. But I think using one WordPress loop to do lots more stuff could be more.
The index page of this blog is using a single WordPress loop to a) display the first post with full text in the main content section [...]

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July 26, 2007 @ 11:31 pm
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How To Mix Full Posts And Excerpts On Your WordPress Home Page

Jeff from WordPress Max Used my Contact Form to send me a quick question about how I get the full text of the newest post and the excerpts of the rest of the posts to show up on my home page here at Blog Strokes.
This is a great question and he's right that it's not [...]

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July 15, 2007 @ 2:38 am
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Get A Better WordPress Title In 30 Seconds!

Over the years there have been many attempts at improving the way WordPress displays your blog's page title. There are several plugins that let you modify the way your title is displayed and some that even let you specify a title for your posts.
I've tried several of these solutions and, honestly they have all been [...]

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July 3, 2007 @ 12:14 am
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