joelwalsh

Is the category description not part of the “loop” I hear so much about? Does it have to be called “outside the loop” unlike other tags?

You just see a lot of blogs doing that, and in fact most of the WordPress themes I’ve seen do that, so I was wondering if there was some kind of tracking involved (there’s a rel= bookmark tag).

Thanks.

That was a good idea. I didn’t use Gamerz’s but another print script for wordpress and am tweaking it a bit to create plain text and html versions…anyone know how to tweak this to get it to output in a more specific format, such as plain text with X characters per line? Anyone know how you could output it as rtf? PDF?

Which of the plugins are you talking about? I’ve given up trying to get his email plugin to work so I’m hoping it’s not that.

I’m using it as a CMS, too, and agree all the functionality is potentially there, you just have to get all the plugins, redo tags, tweak themes a bit…no small amount of work, but when you are done it is amazing.

Kafkaesqui, that little workaround was wonderful, thank you.

Google, MSN, Yahoo et al seem to bounce around in terms of what they display as the listing’s description in search results. It is still worthwhile to have your meta description tag in place and for it to be a compelling and accurate summary or teaser. The excerpt as meta description plugin really should be in the wordpress core by default.

The ad-rotator plugin supposedly works with any and all 3rd-party add networks that use JavaScript.

But doesn’t it help you get indexed by Technorati (and presumably get traffic from Technorati users)? The CosmosLink, meanwhile, is one-way, right?

Hi, I just used the print script that came with the blue radiant theme…I forget the author’s name now. Something Indian.

why no?

and it is an honor to get a response from the very author of the program ??

Hi PR, thanks a lot (PR stand for public relations or Puerto Rican or…?)

The reasons for hte full text are:

1. In reality few people who get the link will necessarily go to the site; with the full article in front of them, more people will read.

2. I want to make it easy for people to add my article to their site and the full text method would make it easier. Yes, there are people too lazy to copy and paste it off their screens.

Thanks Angsumann,

Unfortunately I can’t see your site when I go to it…it’s blank…why’s that? (using firefox here).

“site wide” means a link that’s on every single page of a site, such as the link to WordPress in the footer of every single page of many wordpress-powered sites.

Google will likely discount site-wide links because it’s obvious in that case that the link is offered as something other than a resource to visitors, such as a simple “powered by” link. Google only values links as a proxy for quality and relevance, and so if a link is just a “powered by” link, it probably was not chosen by the site owner, which means it is less likely to be a measure of quality and relevance.

Also, by sitewide links you might mean navigation links, the links to supposedly standard pages of a website that appear in a bar on every page. These aren’t so bad so long as the links are to pages you want to appear high in search results. You’re likely wasting pagerank with links to contact, privacy, legal, etc., and so if you can get those links in a format that search engines do not follow (supposedly, javascripting the link does this), you will only be passing your pagerank to the pages yuo want to pass it to. “Dilution” refers to the fact that the classical pagerank algorithm divides the pagerank of a page by the number of links on the page when deciding how much pagerank to pass to the linked page (in reality, it’s no longer a simple division like this but something with scales and steps). So, if you have ten links on a page with a PR of 6, you will likely let each page you link to have a PR of 5 or 4 just on the basis of your link. But if you have 100 links on a page with a PR of 6, the linked pages might only get a PR of 3 (assuming they were linked to only by that one page and not others). There’s no known exact formula (that’s a closely guarded trade secret), but that’s the general idea.

That’s pretty cool except that it brands itself all over your pdf. An awful lot of branding for such a small service. The scariest part is that it puts the author’s copyright notice at the bottom of the PDF without any other indication that the copyright notice is for the tool used to produce the PDF and not the document itself (imagine if Adobe put its logo and copyright Adobe on every PDF!).

Is there something like this that isn’t so possessive?