deko

Thanks. I’ve also discovered a Plugin called Revision Control here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/revision-control/

I’d rather avoid adding code to the wp-config.php file.

I just upgraded a few blogs from 2.1 and can’t believe that WordPress has failed to provide a built-in OFF button for Revisions since 2.6! I’m really wondering what went wrong here. If this ‘feature’ got through a review process, what’s next? Is there no longer any adult supervision at WordPress?

I have blogs that contain long posts well over 100,000 characters. And they often undergo small changes. So each time a comma is added or a word is capitalized… zap, another one is added to the database.

So now I have to find a Plugin, install the Plugin, configure the Plugin, then go into the database and issue

DELETE FROM posts WHERE post_status = 'inherit';

to get rid of all the unwanted entries. This is NOT supposed to happen with a “state-of-the-art publishing platform.”

Very disappointed.

I tried this…

$pid = trim($_GET['page_id']);
if ($pid = 362)
{
     header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
     header("Location: http://www.example.com/MovedPage.php");
}

but received error: “Can’t rewrite headers… already set”

thanks for the tip. I’ll dive in and reply back with notes. I’ve customized my blog so I’m sure some coding will be necessary.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Include_Tags

get_search_form

This tag includes the file searchform.php from your current theme’s directory. If that file is not found, it will generate the search form.

One thing I’m still not sure about is how to insert custom javascript into the header of my custom Page Template. I know I can call a .js file that contains my script, but I think that means editing the header.php file of my theme–and that will impact everything, not just the custom Page.

Is there anyway to include custom javascript in a custom Page Template?

I agree that a good user experience is not an SEO issue (I never implied that), but I will maintain that URLs are an important part of a website’s UI.

Consider this URL:

http://example.com/weblog/index.php?y=2000&m=11&d=23&id=5678

For us humans, it contains meaningless information and is hard to decipher. When URLs are long and complex, they are difficult to repeat or remember. When URLs are clear and intuitive, they provide important clues to what a resource actually contains. Do you think you could repeat that URL above to someone you just met at lunch who wanted to visit your site?

Jakob Nielson (among others) has done research on just how important URLs are:

“We found that searchers are particularly interested in the URL when they are assessing the credibility of a destination. If the URL looks like garbage, people are less likely to click on that search hit. On the other hand, if the URL looks like the page will address the user’s question, they are more likely to click.”

As for portability, a “clean” URL is not dependent on a particular domain or technology. Let’s say I own a domain name with multiple TLD extensions (which I do). I can have my clean URL point to a .com site, or a .net site, or a .org site. And if I rewrite my site in Python or asp.net, then people (and search engines) don’t have to learn a new file extension (.php, .py, .aspx, .htm, etc.).

I’ll defer to the sites I’ve already referenced for how clean URLs improve security and SEO. This “clean” URL debate has been going on for some time.

I guess I never really messed around with the permalink feature in WP. But that sounds like what I’m looking for. I’m pretty good with mod_rewrite so I’m sure I can massage this into something that will meet my needs.

Thanks for the tip.

Perhaps I should have said “clean URLs”

Thomas Powell

Jakob Nielsen

clean:

http://example.net/folder/page.htm
(easy to read, no puctuation or identifiers)

dirty:

http://example.net/06052007?p=98
(difficult to read, complex)

mod_rewrite is the usual way to accomplish this. Drupal has a module that supports clean urls