Daily Tip: ThemeSorter Helps You Sort and Search Premium WordPress Themes and Coupons
March 2, 2011
If you’re in the market for a commercial WordPress theme, you may want to stop by ThemeSorter.com. They’ve set up a site where you can sort themes by niches, colors, styles, price, rating, features, and many more options.
You can easily find out who are the most popular sellers and view their most popular themes. The site also offers a number of coupons for some of the largest commercial theme providers. Check out ThemeSorter.com before you make your next purchase, especially if you need very specific sorting capabilities.
WPMU DEV SEO is Your One-Stop Solution to Optimize Your WordPress Site for Search Engines
March 2, 2011
Tired of installing numerous plugins to try to manage bits and pieces of your SEO? How do you know if your site is truly being optimized or if the plugins you have are doing anything?
Our customers asked for a professional WordPress SEO solution and we listened. I’d like to introduce you to WPMU DEV SEO. It takes the guesswork and frustration out of SEO and positions you to start improving your rankings immediately.
WPMU DEV SEO is a results-oriented solution
WPMU DEV SEO actually delivers measurable results and provides solid metrics via the SEOmoz API. This gives you the ability to verify that the plugin is working to effectively promote your content. You can see first-hand how your settings are affecting your rankings.
Tapping into the powerful SEOmoz API connects you to the most highly-regarded SEO experts in the industry. In a matter of seconds you can be funneling valuable stats and ranking information for your site directly from the experts. You can use the data it gives you to tweak your site and create your own highly effective SEO strategies.
Clean, Easy-to-Use Interface
The built-in WPMU DEV SEO Wizard takes you step by step through the process of preparing your site for advantaged SEO. It allows you to easily integrate your WordPress site with SEOmoz, the industry leader in SEO reports, to offer dynamic and effective tools for optimizing your site and tracking your SEO progress.
WPMU DEV SEO implements four proven strategies to optimize your WordPress site:
- Automatic Linking: Maintain Fine-Grained Control of Your SEO Strategy
The automatic linking feature automates deep linking within your site’s post and pages so that crawlers can quickly and easily index all of your content. - Title & Meta Optimization: Customize How Your Site Appears When Search Engines Find You
This panel provides an interface for easily customizing titles and meta descriptions of your site pages. Leave it on the default settings or take full control of your SEO strategy by specifying a selection from a generous list of supported macros, available to you through the help button. - SEOmoz Report: Get Feedback From the Best of the Best in SEO
Verify that your content is being found by search engines and monitor your rankings. The index is never more than a month old, so you are sure to get the freshest look at how your rankings are improving. - XML Sitemap: Easily Generate a Customized Sitemap
Include or exclude pages and/or posts, depending on your preference. You’ll also have the option to filter your taxonomies and include categories and post tags as you choose so that search engines can efficiently crawl through your site to index all of your content.
Many SEO plugins are a “one size fits all” approach without offering you the option to employ a specific strategy for your website’s unique needs. WPMU DEV SEO offers you fine-grained control of the automatic linking of your posts, pages and custom content types with the ability to customize and/or ignore keywords that you specify.
This plugin will optimize your site right away with its default settings. It’s also well-suited to WordPress users who enjoy tweaking their sites and refining specific SEO strategies based on the numbers. If you want every SEO option your WordPress site requires in one easy bundle, get your copy of WPMU DEV SEO today.
Should we move to Facebook Comments?
March 1, 2011
With the advent of Facebook Comments I reckon we’ll see a lot of sites switching over.
Especially since Techcrunch just did, and posted a very interesting reflection on the pros and cons of it.
Of course there are already a buch of very promising looking Facebook Comments WordPress Plugins:
- Facebook Comments for WordPress which looks like a winner, especially as it also allows you to allow anonymous commenting alongside it (demo’d and supported here)
- Facebook Comments – basically an importer
- Facebook Comments Importer – imports comments from Facebook back to your blog (how’s that for an alternative :)
- Simple Facebook Connect – allows for the usual login integration
But this new system looks pretty tempting… especially (cue evil cackle) how commenting on an article is reflected in your Facebook profile, thus dramatically increasing the exposure of the article you’ve just commented on.
Would be interested in ya thoughts!
Daily Tip: Move the WordPress 3.1 Admin Bar to the Bottom
March 1, 2011
Want to move the new WordPress 3.1 admin bar to the bottom of the page where it will be a little more out of the way? No problem! Download and install the Stick Admin Bar to Bottom plugin and it will be instantly changed for you.
WPMU DEV Releases 20 Premium WordPress Plugins & Themes… for free!
March 1, 2011
Everyone loves a freebie right? Well, howabout 20 of them!
Yep, that’s right, today at WPMU DEV we’re officially releasing 20 premium plugins and themes for free, nada, nothing, zip and bugger all.
And some of it is really rather shiny and special.
For example… if you like the WP.MU design, now you can have it for free :)
Or howabout a beautiful 3 column theme, suffuse with options, like WPMU Dixi?
Or I heard you wanted some plugins too, howabout:
- The login and logout redirectors…. for free.
- The most comprehensive reporting plugin for Multisite ever made…
- And then there’s our custom version of Who Sees Ads, especially made up for Multisite
- And check out the Advanced Theme Switcher too… it even works with BuddyPress!
And, of course we’ve saved the best till last… because we’ve also made the Farms 133 theme pack 100% free too!
133 themes, all fixed up for threaded comments, post thumbnails and soon, dynamic menus too… it’s a riot.
And now it’s yours, for free… check em out:
And we’ll be adding new themes and plugins to this list all the time, so go enjoy the goodies!
Free TwentyTen Five Theme Brings HTML5 to WordPress
March 1, 2011
You’ve heard all the buzz about HTML5. Perhaps you’ve been wishing for some way to incorporate it with WordPress. Wait no longer!
The new TwentyTen Five Theme is a complete upgrade of the default TwentyTen theme, and you can download it for free.
About the TwentyTen Five Theme:
It’s completely free, easy to build on, and brings brand new HTML5 elements and functionality to WordPress.
What does it look like? Well, it looks just like the TwentyTen theme – only behind the scenes it’s got superpowers! You can use it as it is or as a framework/parent theme for your own HTML5 theme creations.
What is HTML5?
HTML5 offers support for all of the latest multimedia that websites need to be on the cutting edge. The goal is to keep the markup easy to read by humans, as well as as computers and devices. It provides powerful support for web-based applications with better support for graphics, videos, styling effects, and devices such as tablets, televisions, and mobile phones.
TwentyTen Five Features:
- New HTML5 tags such as < article >, < time >, < figure >, etc. for a more semantic markup
- HTML5 form elements for comment forms
- Modernizr.js to make sure that all new elements render correctly in IE prior to version 9
- WAI-ARIA techniques for accessibility
- Microformats for semantic markup of machine-readable metadata, such as address book info, calendar listings, XFN, and much more!
What about cross-browser compatibility?
If you’re scared about cross-browser incompatibility, don’t be. The TwentyTen Five theme has you covered. All it takes is just a little bit of JavaScript to make HTML5 compatible with all browsers, even Granny’s favorite, IE6!
For a full and detailed description of how all the new features fit in, make sure to check out Using HTML5 to Transform WordPress’ TwentyTen Theme. The theme also has its own website where you can download your copy and get in touch with developer Richard Shephard.
