Displaying 1 To 8 Of 8 Comments Category Templates To Become Easier To Style Thanks for the link. I didn’t know scribu.net. Looks… awesome. » Posted By Peter Kahoun On August 15, 2009 @ 5:39 PM Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Don’t Follow #2 “move you wp-config file” is causing problems to some themes and plugins that load this file directly (and usually don’t check the alt. dir.). So I recommend to get your site into working state and after that implement the security tips carefully. » Posted By Peter Kahoun On August 10, 2009 @ 3:47 AM @Ryan – if you meant indirect influences on SEO, than you’re undoubtably right. I agree these features are worthy for user’s experience, for the success of the forum or for myriads of other aspects, but since you addressed the article on SEO benefits, I needed some explanation. Now I think I got it – your understanding of SEO is just wider than mine. Thanks. » Posted By Peter Kahoun On July 11, 2009 @ 8:03 PM @Ryan –Comments Posted By Peter Kahoun
hat makes any other forum software as good as bbPress?
Nothing, they are already about the same… (We’re speaking about on-page SEO qualities.)
Sending trackbacks help as it automatically posts links to the forum on other sites.
…expecting they’re using bbPress (or WP blog) and they didn’t disable the feature. Other side most likely uses rel=nofollow on these links so their benefit for our ranks is… is?
Acquiring evidence of the effects of SEO is difficult and I doubt anyone has tried to quantify the difference…
Sure, I form my opinions by opinions of SEO experts, that is the kind of evidence I’d like to see.
the SEO benefits of trackbacks, semantic HTML and pretty permalinks is well known
IMO, they might be well believed by WP community, but I wouldn’t say that they are well known and I would say they are overrated. About the keywords in URL, well, these probably matter. But how much? http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
» Posted By Peter Kahoun On July 11, 2009 @ 10:16 AM
Ok, here is my summary: What makes a bbPress forum better in eyes of search engine?
- proper use of headings
- more semantic HTML, no layout-tables
- pretty permalinks
- trackbacks (sending or receiving or both? how do they help?)Is there something more? And is there any evidence about the impact of points 2, 3, 4 on page rating?
Don’t get me wrong, just trying to have clear knowledge. I’m a user of bbPress too and like it, but I have doubts about being it a significantly better platform for SE.
» Posted By Peter Kahoun On July 11, 2009 @ 6:55 AM
But, if it was not being used in core, why would it cause the commenting system to break when it’s removed?
I think you can construct Insert (or Update?) database query without specifying columns, so maybe the system was confused by (too high) number of sent values…
» Posted By Peter Kahoun On July 1, 2009 @ 8:55 PM
But there is a plugin for this case…
The argument against this idea is that a large majority of the WordPress userbase does not need to know this information.
This isn’t IMHO really an argument – WP has a few other features (e.g. posting via mail) that are useful only for a minority… Not speaking about that simple solution to hide IDs defaultly and make it possible to turn them on in Screen options (or ev. in global settings).
I agree this was one of the not-so-much-thoughtful touches on 2.5.
» Posted By Peter Kahoun On June 12, 2009 @ 10:07 AM
Comparisons Between Most Popular Theme Frameworks
«« Back To Stats PageIt’s interesting. I mean, it’s interesting to see what other people include into their framework-templates. But I have no idea how could anybody make a decision based on this comparing sheet. I just don’t think these numbers and lists matter… For me, the quality of theme/fw is in compromise of functionality and simplicity and this is hardly measureable, definitely a subjective thing, no sheet data. :-)
» Posted By Peter Kahoun On April 8, 2009 @ 3:34 PM