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Adding a Google Search Web Element to a Wordpress theme

The newly released Google Web element: custom search is awesome.

To add it to my wordpress theme (which doesn’t have a top sidebar for widgets) I had to edit (Appearance ⇒ Editor) the header.php file and add the snippet I got from Google there, at just at the end of the header.php. So the search web [...]

Fixing “Invalid XML: too many tags” [Google webmaster tools]

I tried to use my blog feed as a sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools, but it Google complains about “Invalid XML: too many tags describing this tags” in several points in the feed.
I found in several places that this due to the format of the feed, a simple change to ATOM will fix it. [...]

Changed to Sandbox theme today

I think it was about time to change theme. I opted for Sandbox, I like the clean look. I was surprised on how well the change theme procedure was, just switch theme and the sidebar (with all the widgets) it’s still there.

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How To Display Sidebar in Single Post in WordPress 1.5 / 2.0 / 2.7.x Default Kubrick Theme

I found this great tip
How To Display Sidebar in Single Post in WordPress 1.5 / 2.0 Default Kubrick Theme.
The only problem is that the code that you should add is not properly shown in the post. He just copied the xml code verbatim in the [...]

Useful WordPress plugin – Redirector

Very useful WordPress plugin to redirect with a “301 moved permanently” from one of your post to any url. I created a Wordpress page out of a post and I wanted to redirect everybody from the post to the the page. My first solution was to include a link to the page in the [...]

Wordpress: Search queries that point to your site

I’ve been using Google Analytics for a while in my site but haven’t look at the reports very closely. One thing is clear when took a look at the reports: most of the traffic come out of google searches.

Then I tried to find what exact search queries the users performs to find [...]

Wordpress plugins

Wordpress plugins that I’m currently using

AutoMeta: Automatic Meta & Technorati Tags for WordPress – boakes.org
Google Analyticator — for use with Google analytics
Feedburner Feed Replacement — provides integration with feedburner.com

PJW Mime Config — allows to change mime-types associated with file-extensions

Social Bookmarks Bar — adds a bar to each post to submit to digg, del.icio.us, etc
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Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress v2 Final

If you host your wordpress blog and want to make it more searchable from google this wordpress plugin Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress v2 Final creates sitemaps automatically. Works for WP 2.0.4.

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Wordpress importing tools is awesome

Wow! I noticed the Import tab in the Wordpress admin tool and I found that is possible to import your old blog from blogger.com (among others). It awesome! works perfectly! All my previous post are now in Wordpress.

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