SEO is one of those we’ve come to love and hate at the same time. Many agencies boast about their SEO services and they don’t even swap columns to put the main content at the top, one of the most easiest and simplest SEO techniques. However, the SEO war gets tougher every time with more attention paid to things like canonical URLs, microformats, geolocation, sitemaps, domain age, and a long etcetera. In this post we will check 10 tools that will help you to analyze your blog and get some feedback about how you can optimize it. We will also explore 5 WordPress plugins that will improve the SEO friendliness of your site.
TDO Mini Forms is one of the best plugins for WordPress to allow visitors or users to publish posts and upload files without having to access the admin area. You can select categories for the post, add tags, title, content, etc. However, even after WordPress introduced UIs for custom taxonomies in version 2.8, TDO Mini Forms (or tdomf for short) won’t allow you to select custom taxonomies. In this post you will find how to modify the categories widget for TDOMF to enable custom taxonomies.
Let’s imagine this scenario. We have a group of speakers and we want to show a few lines about who they are and what they do, followed by a large chunk of information. But, we want this block to remain hidden until visitors click on a More Info link. We’re going to create this using WordPress’ shortcodes a bit of jQuery magic.

You might be familiar with sites like Dribbble or Creattica where they show, along with the usual text tag, another tag which is simply a coloured rectangle for Dribbble or a square in Creattica. Not only do they look good but they are an effective interface element. In this tutorial we will learn how to output the tags of a post with specific classes for each tag using WordPress.
Although the upcoming WordPress 3.0 will support different post types to discriminate content in a proper way, creating new custom post types will require some coding on the theme. However, things will get easier with the Custom Post Type UI plugin for WordPress, that provides us with a graphic user interface to create not only custom post types but custom taxonomies as well.
Since last week, a myriad of sites have been incorporating the “Like” button on their sites. WordPress self-hosted blogs are not the exception and there are a huge amount of Facebook Like buttons on the WordPress Extend plugin repository. But why bloating up your WordPress installation adding another plugin when we can just add a couple of lines and get our button? Save options queries and save loading time with the following tutorial.
WordPress 3.0 will separately identify the Drop-ins that you add to your installation. WordPress Drop-ins are custom PHP files related to several WordPress core files such as advanced-cache.php or object-cache.php that you can load on WP-Content to override the core file with new functionality.