I enjoyed my browse and read. Limiting posts per page to 5-10 would be a good idea. Many people will be turned off by a five mile long page with 20 posts on it.
Thanks for your reply.
Yeah, I know… I’ve thought about it. The thing is, I hate to make so many posts and see them go off of the front page so fast. Is there anyway I can link post titles in the sidebar or something?
I also enjoyed the read. Bookmarked!
Thanks guys!
I’m trying to get my readers to comment a bit more without saying “FRIGGING COMMENT, ALREADY!” Call me an a-hole! Something!
Happy Blogging 🙂
http://www.projectnothing.com
I’m getting there. I’ve managed to build a small but consistent readership.
🙂
Things are going well. Still frustratingly un-indexed by you know who.
Have you tried to send your site to Yahoo or MSN instead? It might help you to get indexed by Google. Don’t forget to update your Google Sitemap and if you can, get your blog indexed by DMOZ.
I am indexed by Yahoo and MSN. What’s Dmoz, and how can I update my Google Sitemap?
Thank you (I’m a rookie so I apologize if my questions are silly)
DMOZ is the largest site directory edited by human. You could visit them at http://dmoz.org/
And for Google Sitemap, I think there’s a plugin for it. I forgot the address but you can find it easily on the forum I think.
When I had my ecommerce site going, I waited for 9 months to not get my site listed into DMOZ, that is one of the hard ones I think, but of course I could be wrong.
Thank you. I have installed a Sitemap plugin, but I’m not sure I understand where to go from here…any help would be great.
Also, if someone could help me place my meta tags, that would be great, too.
Thanks again.
Did anyone ever answer your question about how to put post titles in your sidebar? Your site is still downloading for me (I’m on dialup, ick!), so if you have a sidebar, I don’t see it yet, and therefore can’t see if you’ve added post titles. Looks great so far, though. 🙂
This is the code I have in my sidebar to call for recent posts (just the titles):
<?php
$today = current_time('mysql', 1);
if ( $recentposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_title FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_date_gmt < '$today' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 5")):
?>
<?php
foreach ($recentposts as $post) {
if ($post->post_title == '')
$post->post_title = sprintf(__('Post #%s'), $post->ID);
echo "<li class='sidebar'><a href='?p=$post->ID'>";
the_title();
echo '</a></li>';
}
?>
And where you see “DESC LIMIT 5” you can change the 5 to however many number of post titles you want.
No, I don’t. And thanks! I managed to figure out the sitemap thing and I submitted it to Google. They accepted it! So that’s a good first step. Now I need to work on the meta-tag and getting my site validated.
The latter I’ll probably need some help with..
As for the meta tag, usually I put it on my header.php files via WordPress admin.
Right, right.
Do I put it…
<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
HERE?
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” /> <!– leave this for stats –>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
