Saturday, May 10, 2008 
SEO For WordPress: Part 1
By Sumesh from Blog Creativity, a blog about blogging tips, usability in design, SEO and WordPress (theme/plugin reviews, hacks and WordPress optimization).
WordPress is often praised for its inherent SEO capabilities. The option to use post slugs, clean and valid xHTML (mostly) etc. are some of the reasons for the praise.
However, anyone who inspects a WordPress theme closely will notice that there are several dozen weak points in WordPress themes (in the default theme, freely available themes and even paid themes). Some of these are caused by WordPress core functions (which were developed 5 years ago, since when SEO has evolved), while others are due to designers not willing to brave the choppy waters of SEO experimentation.
Modifying the core functions require extensive hacking (which can be done with proper tutorials), but the changes will be erased during WordPress upgrades. So, the subject of this post shall be mostly about those mistakes caused by faulty theme coding.
In this series of posts, you can read on what the SEO mistakes are, and how to solve them.
Note: The technical aspects of the solution (like code required for various modifications) is beyond the scope of this post. Michael tells me that WPCandy readers are mostly capable of doing such tweaks by themselves, but I will be glad to troubleshoot your problems (if you run into any) at the support forum at my blog.
Quommunication’s Video WordPress Theme
The Quommunication team has just released the feature-packed WordPress theme called Video. And boy oh boy, is it sexy.
“Once Video is added to your WordPress you only have to find or upload any video you like, go to it’s page and search the embed function and copy the code in WordPress to the body of your new post. To add some description, simply write it below the embedded video. That’s it!” - Quommunication
WordPress Clips For Coda
A few months ago I wrote an article on how to use Coda with WordPress via Clips. Well the creators of Massive Blue and Nonimage have created a site called Coda Clips, featuring a ton of clips for CSS, Expression Engine, HTML, JS, PHP, Textpattern, WordPress, and other coding languages.
While browsing through some of the clips, I noticed some tags I have never even seen before! Here’s a few that are worth mentioning:
Anyways, if you use Coda, make sure to check out this sweet resource. Oh and if you have a few of your own snippets, make sure to submit them!
30+ Things That Should Be Changed for WordPress 2.6
I have been using WordPress pretty frequently for about a year now. I’ve written two plugins and counting for the blogging CMS, ran a site dedicated to customizing themes for a while, and have been working hard with the rest of the WPCandy team to create the third version of the site, which I’m sure will be a huge hit among the WordPress community. I haven’t been using WordPress nearly as long as other people, but I have a good feel for the system, both front-end and back-end, and I have compiled a list of 30 things I think should be changed, added, or built in to WordPress. Read more…
Interview With Ryan McCue
This is a guest post by Brady Valentino of BVPhotography.ca.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan McCue, of CubeGames.net. Ryan isn’t the most well known guy in the WordPress community, but is an avid user, fanboy, and general WordPress lover, so Mike decided to have me interview him. So, let’s get right into this interview.
