Introducing Rich Snippets Webmaster Level: All As a webmaster, you have a unique understanding of your web pages and the content they represent. Google helps users find your page by showing them a small sample of that content -- the "snippet." We use a variety of techniques to create these snippets and give users relevant information about what they'll find when they click through to visit your site. Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search results at a glance. To display Rich Snippets, Google looks for markup formats (microformats and RDFa) that you can easily add to your own web pages. and now with microformats markup: or alternatively, use RDFa markup. By incorporating standard annotations in your pages, you not only make your structured data available for Google's search results, but also for any service or tool that supports the same standard. Now, time for some Q&A with the team: If I mark up my pages, does that guarantee I'll get Rich Snippets? No. What's next?
How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress - Smashing WordPress A Complete To-Do List & Plugins for WordPress Site Maintenance | If you own a WordPress site, it will probably be operational 24/7. As time passes, the number of different site operations will cause your WordPress site to slow down. Just like your computer or house, your WordPress site requires scheduled maintenance checks in order to keep it running in its prime condition. Image credit: batega When it comes to WordPress site maintenance, it can be as easy as doing your housekeeping tasks through the WordPress Admin, to the extent of technical tweaks at the back of your WordPress site. Take Down Your WordPress Site For Maintenance Some of the maintenance tasks do not require you to bring down your WordPress site entirely. Here are some ways you can use to temporarily take down your WordPress site for maintenance. .htaccess Replace /maintenance.html with whatever the URL of your maintenance page is and put in your own IP address on line 3. Source from: CatsWhoCode WordPress Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin Maintenance Mode Plugin Standard Maintenance Backup
Translate a WordPress Theme in 3 Easy Steps | Solostream Last updated on Lately, more and more people are asking us how to translate a WordPress theme into a language other than English. And with an estimated 2 billion people now online, it’s no wonder. Fortunately, it’s a fairly straightforward process, and I’ve boiled it down into 3 simple steps. This tutorial assumes the WordPress theme to be translated has been localized using the the GNU gettext framework. 1. POT stands for “Portable Object Template,” and a POT file (aka .po file) is basically a list of all the English-language text found within the files of a localized WordPress theme. If you’re using a theme other than a Solostream theme (gasp), check with the theme author to see if they offer a POT file. 2. Once you have the POT file, you’ll need to open it in a program like POEdit, and translate the English language into your preferred language. Find a list of language codes at WordPress in your Language. 3. Notice “text_domain” above – it’s called the text domain name.
Integrating Feedburner and Google Analytics In mid-November, Google Analytics and Feedburner announced a very interesting integration. While this is excellent news for Google Analytics and Feedburner users, it must be dealt properly when it comes to SEO, especially on websites that are heavily based on RSS feeds. Google Analytics users rejoice! This integration is very interesting in that it allows a much deeper understanding of the interaction of users coming from feeds and the profitability of this segment on websites. As can be seen in the screenshot below (from Online Behavior website), we are able to use five UTM parameters as used in the URL builder. utm_source: Identifies the referrer (e.g. google, searchengineland.com, newsletter)utm_medium:: Identifies the marketing medium (e.g. organic, CPC, banner, email)utm_campaign: Identifies the campaign that is being run in the referrerutm_content: Used to differentiate ads or links inside a campaignutm_term: Used to differentiate the keywords clicked
The Complete Guide To Custom Post Types WordPress has been gaining a foothold in the general content management system (CMS) game for a few years now, but the real breakthrough was the custom post type mechanism which allows for the creation of a wide variety of content. Let’s take a look at how this came to be and all the options that this great functionality offers. 1Some of the custom post types you can create in WordPress. What It Used To Be Like In practice, custom post types have been around for a long time, more specifically since February 17, 2005, when WordPress 1.5 added support for static pages, creating the post_type database field. The wp_insert_post() function has been around since WordPress 1.0, so when the post_type field was implemented in 1.5, you could simply set the post_type value when inserting a post. By version 2.8, the register_post_type() function and some other helpful things were added to the nightly builds, and when 2.9 came out, the functions became available to everyone. Creating Custom Post Types
IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on you Ajouter de multiples galeries de médias sous WordPress La gestion des galeries photos sous WordPress est restée très sommaire dans sa gestion. Il est notamment impossible de gérer de multiples galeries associées à un article / page sous WordPress. Pourtant, il existe un moyen simple et rapide pour insérer un nombre illimité de galeries que voici.Un de mes derniers projets consistait à présenter des photos sous forme de galeries simples dans une page WordPress. Entre l’utilisation des fonctionnalités de gestion de base fournies par WordPress et l’installation du plugin NextGen Gallery, il y a un gap comme dirait les anglais ! C’est alors que j’ai trouvé mon bonheur avec le plugin Multiple Galleries. Et oui, pas de code à copier / coller dans un fichier aujourd’hui… Cet excellent module fait une chose et il le fait très bien : il ajoute un système de case à cocher dans l’outil de gestion de galeries de WordPress. N’attendez plus et téléchargez donc ce plugin génial : Multiple Galleries Taille : 68, 4 KiB • Date : 6 novembre 2012 • Hits : 1 797
HOW TO: Get Up-to-Date on WordPress 3.0 This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. WordPress 3.0, the latest and greatest version of the popular open source content management system, has just been released. The latest version brings a refined backend interface, a brand new default theme, a new custom menu structure, plus improved support for custom post types and custom taxonomies. While we've written about some of the most exciting and important new features in WordPress 3.0 already, we thought now would be a good time to round-up some resources of how these newest features work and what WordPress designers and developers will need to consider when upgrading or creating new plugins or themes for WordPress 3.0.Although WordPress 3.0 was only released last week, it has been in the works for quite some time, so a fair amount of documentation is already online. All About Menus Multisite Madness Custom Post Types Galore Custom Taxonomies Trickery
14 key WordPress functions to jump-start theme development After a few years (or even months) of designing and developing WordPress themes, especially for clients, you start to realize that a lot of the functionality can be standardized or distilled down into a “starter theme or kit”. This helps get the development process started and moving along apace. The best first step in doing this, I’ve found, is to nail down most of the common functions and include them in the functions.php. This functions.php file will need to be extended to meet the particular theme’s needs as new projects arise, but it will provide a more than awesome starting point for development. There are about 13 key functions that I like to start out with and will add to them as needed… 1. The navigation menu feature, introduced in WordPress 3.0, allows for the intuitive creation and maintaining of navigation menus in themes. At the very least, a standard theme will need a main navigation menu, perhaps in the header and a secondary navigation menu in the footer. <? <? 2. 3. if ( !
Check Out Tagxedo, A Ridiculously Cool Word Cloud Generator There’s a new word cloud generator in Web town, and it’s a pure delight if you’re into visualization technology, words or better yet, both. Its hard-to-remember name is Tagxedo and it was built by developer Hardy Leung and released just a couple of days ago. Leung says the inspiration for the app is Wordle, a word cloud generation tool we’ve covered once or twice in the past. I concur – Tagxedo’s downright amazing. You can use the app to create visually stunning word clouds like the ones I embedded in this post by inserting words (e.g. speeches, news articles, letters, slogans, themes, and so on). With just one click, you can rotate the cloud, modify its colors and font, and also alternate between themes and shapes as you please. You can save word clouds as images at will (in pretty high resolutions, even), and Leung says a button to print directly from the app is in the works. The app was built in Silverlight, and in case you were wondering why, Leung says:
Powerful WordPress Tips And Tricks Notebook | Konigi We know that starting with why is important to product design, but what comes next? "How" would definitely come soon after. But there are many ways to propose how to begin exploring possibilities. The 99u points to a number of questions to ask before starting a project, and how language matters. Here's why the words make a difference: When people within companies try to innovate, they often talk about the challenges they’re facing by using language that can inhibit creativity instead of encouraging it, says the business consultant Min Basadur, who has taught the How Might We (HMW) form of questioning to companies over the past four decades. Tim Brown of IDEO talks about how the words carry meaning for problem solving. [W]ithin the phrase, each of those three words plays a role in spurring creative problem solving. Check out how IDEO are using the HMW phrasing at Open IDEO to get people thinking about and proposing how to solve challenges for social good.
Blogs et sites sur l’ergonomie (fr) [ Usaddict : Ressources sur l’ergonomie des interfaces (le blog Usabilis) ] La conception d’interfaces, l’ergonomie et le web sont en constante évolution : technologies innovantes, nouvelles tendances, interactions inédites sont autant de sujets auxquels il convient de rester attentif. Sur le Web, de nombreux professionnels partagent expériences et découvertes sur l’ergonomie, au sens large du terme. De l’accessibilité au e-commerce, en passant par le web 2.0, l’expérience utilisateur et les NTIC, nous proposons de (re)découvrir quelques blogs et sites francophones actuellement actifs (novembre 2010). AccessiBlogue – accessibiliteweb.com/accessiblogue Blogue (québécois) promoteur de l’accessibilité des contenus Web aux personnes handicapées et vieillissantes, de la normalisation (WCAG, SGQRI, etc.) et enjeux. Capitaine Commerce - capitaine-commerce.com Le Capitaine et ses acolytes nous font partager avec humour leur passion du e-commerce au travers de commentaires, découvertes et réflexions sur le web marketing, le web analytique et l’utilisabilité. Partager :