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#2025: Recent Posts With Thumbnails In WordPress Without A Plugin

Posted: April 12, 2010 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 1,477 views // View Comments

Add recent posts with thumbnails to your site, without having to hassle with a Wordpress plugin.

Today, I wanted to break my focus a little bit from SEO and get into the world of WordPress design—specifically the topic of adding thumbnails to your WordPress blog’s recent posts without the use of a plugin (it can be done). WordPress Plugins are cool, but can be a little temperamental over time as newer versions of WordPress are released.

Executing this is actually fairly simple in my mind, and you can see it in action in my site’s footer.

Step #1: The TimThumb PHP Script

This fancy little script from Darren Hoyt’s…

#505: Make Your WordPress Permalinks SEO-Friendly

Posted: May 27, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 94 views // View Comments

Quick tips to help you make your Wordpress permalink structure more SEO-friendly.

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual blog posts, as well as categories and archives listings.

Basically, permalinks is just a fancy word for the URL that get’s created when you make a post on your WordPress blog. By default, WordPress permalinks are not very SEO-friendly.

WordPress permalinks are dynamic and are formatted like any common PHP-based site. That is, with page and post ID’s rather than actual keywords. Although your site will still index, from an SEO-perspective it is much better to try to find a way to get keywords in the URL.

So how do I change…

#462: WordCamp Columbus Feed

Posted: May 18, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 25 views // View Comments

SEO Panel - WordCamp Columbus I spoke at WordPress WordCamp Columbus over the weekend. It was a great experience! My thanks goes out to Jason Blanton and his team for putting the event together, and to Nate Riggs for getting me involved!

The SEO panel session lasted about 45 minutes, and we covered many topics and received tons of great questions and feedback. Thanks to those who took the time to attend! An additional thanks goes out to Eric Leslie and Evan Metelko for being a part of the SEO panel.

I will look…

#457: Speaking at WordPress WordCamp Columbus!

Posted: May 15, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 25 views // View Comments

I will be speaking tomorrow at WordPress WordCamp Columbus! I am part of a panel that will focus on WordPress-related SEO strategies. I am very excited for this opportunity and hope to convey my passion for WordPress and SEO to all of those in attendance!

About WordPress WordCamp

WordCamp Columbus will be held at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio on May 16, 2009. Many of the details are still being worked out but the day will include keynotes, breakout sessions, networking and lunch. If you would like to help spread the…

#350: 10 Plugins That Every WordPress Blog Should Utilize

Posted: April 9, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 311 views // View Comments

These "select" plugins should be in use for every website built on the Wordpress platform.

WordPress is in my experience, the#1 blogging and free website platform out there. There are many others like WordPress, such as Blogger, SquareSpace, TypePad, Moveable Type, etc.

However, the open-source capabilities and the vast community of users that WordPress offers far exceeds that of their competitors.

WordPress makes things easy for design-gurus and design-newbies alike. If you want to build a WordPress site from scratch, they have the WordPress Codex. If you want a design that is already completed, there are several great WordPress Theme directories out there ( Read more →

#198: SEO-Friendly META Description Tag for WordPress

Posted: February 20, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 759 views // View Comments

Creating SEO-friendly Meta Descriptions in Wordpress without the use of plugins.

In this article, I will explain how to make your WordPress META Description more SEO-friendly using WordPress Conditional Tags. If you followed my last post, I spoke about Optimizing Your WordPress Title Tags to make them more search-friendly. Basically, you should be able to use both for a fairly effective optimization of your WordPress blog (without having to use any plugins).