A new WordPress plugin (called the ‘SEO Alt Tag Optimizer‘) has been developed that allows a website owner to make full use of the Image Alt tags to assist in improving your search engine rankings through the effective utilisation of established and proven search engine optimization techniques.
What this plugin does, is that is creates 3 images on every page of your WordPress site, and populated these images ALT tags with different combinations of the following blog strings:
- Wordpress Site’s Name
- Wordpress Site’s Description
- Wordpress Page’s Title (if you are on homepage, category page or archives page)
- WordPress Post’s Title (if you are on a single post page)
The uniqueness and second benefit of this plugin is that the 3 images are also used to allow your web site visitors to increase the font size, decrease the font size or to return the font size back to the default size. This assists any visitor with any accessibility difficulties to read your web site without having to change their own browser’s viewing settings.
This plugin helps to increase your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) score by up to 5%, but it is also a fully working font re-sizer tool.
You can read more background on this plugin here: SEO Alt Tag Optimizer & Font Resizer Tool (WordPress plugin)
A new version of the Google Sitemaps - Append UTW Tags plugin has been released (v2.0b) to automatically append all the Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) tags onto the end of your Google XML sitemap (sitemap.xml) file.
This WordPress 2.0, 2.1 & 2.2 compatible plugin saves your site administrator in having to manually add the URLs of all the tag pages each time you add a new UTW tag onto a new post.
This release automatically reads all the necessary UTW settings and associated tag tables so that no configuration changes are necessary to execute this time-saving plugin.
For further information on the plugin, visit Google Sitemaps - Ultimate Tag Warrior - Tag Addon for WordPress
Written on 25 May 2007
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This site now uses WordPress 2.0.9. Upgrading is quick and easy if you go to the Mark on WordPress site and download the Changes Diff zip file that only contains the core WordPress files that have been changed.
This blog has been updated to v2.0.7 as there were a few security issues and the upgrade was mandatory.
I am waiting till all the WordPress plugins fully support v2.1 before the next major update (e.g. the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin).
If you use WordPress and use Ultimate Tag Warrior / Google Sitemap Generator plugins (or you want to start to use tags to help categorise your blog) then my tag-addon plugin has been tested with the newest versions of these two plugins as detailed below to automatically add these tags onto your sitemap file.
This plugin automatically adds your tags onto the end of the sitemap.xml file.
Ultimate Tag Warrior for WordPress Plugin (v3.1415926 - released 17th Jan 2007)
Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress Plugin (v3.0b4)
My tag addon plugin can be located here:
WordPress Google Sitemap Generator - Ultimate Tag Warrior - Tags Addon Plugin
This site uses the Bad Behavior plugin for WordPress. The latest release is 2.0.9. This plugin helps to protect against blog & RSS feed spammers and other spambots from entering your site.
Go here to download the Bad Behavior plugin for WordPress.
WordPress has just be updated to version 2.0.6. I updated my blog site using the excellent script from markjaquith.wordpress.com.
Mark’s zip file only contains the core WordPress files that have been updated, and installation is a breeze - a lot more easier that WordPress’s own upgrade instructions!!! It’s well worth a look and will save plenty of backup and upgrade administration time.
All my plugins appear to be working as expected - but it is early days.
My blog is hosted on Apache with mod_php so I also used Mark’s Feedburner fix to correct this issue.