Around a month or so ago, I was working on an update for The Abundance Theme and was looking around for a live site to put it on, since my test installations were busy with other things at the time and the update wasn’t big enough to justify creating another. I dug up an old .info site that had been quickly knocked together several months earlier in order to test a plugin, and had been languishing around doing very little ever since. It was wearing a fairly nondescript bog standard WordPress theme, which was replaced … read more

It’s no secret that the search engines are passionate about WordPress, and will routinely index new installations within hours of their creation, but it could have been an even bigger love story if one of the most basic cornerstones of Search Engine Optimization had not been overlooked. For some mysterious reason, the creators of WordPress decided to use the H1 markup tag for the blog title instead of the post title. Since the H1 tag tells the search engines what a page is all about, your site is likely to be considered (for instance) all … read more