Category Archives: WordPress
WordPress SEO plugin, Charset and Refactor – Part 3
This post is another one related to my WordPress SEO plugin: Light SEO. This time I will talk about some refactor and changes that take care of the blog’s charset. Charset There are two important functions inside the plugin, strtolower and strtoupper. The implementation in the original All in One SEO Pack is: $UTF8_TABLES['strtolower'] = [...]
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WordPress SEO plugin, Refactor and Optimization – Part 2
This post is another one related to my WordPress SEO plugin: Light SEO. This plugin is a fork of the popular All in One SEO Pack and I’m performing a big refactor with some ideas in mind. Looking at the source code, I found the following function in the original plugin: function replace_title($content, $title) { [...]
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WordPress SEO plugin, Start – Part 1
Why another SEO plugin? If you are using WordPress (WP) probably you know one of the most popular plugins, All in One SEO Pack (AIOSP). This plugin handle a lot of SEO related tasks for you. I used it in my blog from day one. But the more I know about the WP internals and [...]
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Light SEO WordPress plugin
WordPress SEO plugin. This is a case study for creating a clean plugin, with emphasis in source code’s good practices. Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Features: Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines. Generates META tags automatically. You can override any title and set any META description and any [...]
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WordPress 2.9 and my first plugin
Last Friday was the release of the version 2.9 of WordPress (WP). I must admit that I fell in love with the simplicity of WP since I installed it for my personal blog. My previous experience was with Joomla for some personal and friends websites. Joomla is a great CMS but with only a few [...]
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Light Social WordPress plugin
This is a super lightweight plugin to insert a set of social share links at the bottom of each post, focused on technical blogs. With this plugin you don’t have options to configure. Simply activate or deactivate to show or not the bookmark social links. This is the list of used social sites: Digg Reddit [...]
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All in One SEO Pack is full of security issues