Still on the search for a SEO plugin for WordPress that gives the extras that might be needed for clients - without removing the flexibility, such as there is, even further from the standard setup of page titles, digests etc.

This one isn’t bad - wpSEO - although the page is German, which might put some off - no need to worry, it’s got the language files - and all the usual SEO stuff - duplicate content elimination, customised meta tags / page titles.

Having followed the progress of a fair few WP sites, some thoughts on the subject of SEO for WordPress.

It shouldn’t really be simpler - at the time of writing, for the ’standard blog’ - whatever that might mean - the default WordPress install works just fine. This could change, either on the WordPress side, or by any popular search engine radically changing the way they do things, but not so likely…

You can get into more of a mess by messing with the default, than leaving well alone.
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WP MarkItUp is not bad at all… Runs on the standard MarkItUp code, driven by jQuery and is a WP plugin.

Tried it out by bodging in a Paypal “buy now” button to the editor, and it does ok, and would make putting in various extra functions of this sort a reasonably modular experience for the average programmer.

If you do know what you’re doing with javascript/AJAX, not sure it’s a necessary replacement, but it might provide a conduit for cleaning up the editor/quicktags functions, never-ending…

Hmm, web services to service a smaller and smaller niche, with plugins to handle your every whim and desire - a WP plugin to import the listings of your CellarTracker wine cellar into your WordPress installation.

And we’ve survived quite well with just a duplicate-content plugin and that’s about it.

Well, I never noticed that - having naturally been with Firefox since it was Phoenix and used to explode your machine with great regularity I don’t often need to touch other fine browser products….

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Further to the discussion here, over the source display of WordPress version, imposed on users of the default install of WordPress 2.5 - a plugin to regain a little control.

Anyone know good Flickr plugin for WordPress? - shouldn’t be too difficult to put a set into a sidebar, now that the Flickr API has firmed up a bit.
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You will need a little knowledge of PHP and MySQL to get the hang of this - but it is perhaps easier than it looks at first sight, and it’s also a good way of expanding your skills in this area…

You want to get some info from the database, and you want it more flexibly than built-in functions like, say, wp_list_pages - this is the general how-to …
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WordPress version 2.3 arrived with the new feature of the update warning message prominently displayed across the admin - as soon as the version was out-of-date, or, more exactly, on release of another full version.

Well and good,  but what if you have 35-40 clients running WordPress…?

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The idea resurfaces for a change in default theme, poor (old) Kubrick is seen as tired, also the issue of themes with added function (known by some as functionality).

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