.htaccess is a powerful tool. Let’s look at how to using .htaccess to redirect WordPress feeds to feedburner. Let’s use my blog as the example. The WordPress’s feed url of my blog is https://www.systutorials.com/feed/. Now I want to redirect it to feedburner with url http://feeds.feedburner.com/systutorials . The idea is quite straightforward: For every request to
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Friendly WordPress Navigation Using Page Numbers Instead of Next and Previous Links
Posted onThe navigation will be more user friendly with page numbers instead of next and previous links since users can navigate much quicker to the page they want to see especially when there are a lot of pages. It is also good method for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because it creates a tighter inner link structure.
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How to Redirect a Page with HTTP 301 in PHP
Posted onHTTP 301 Redirect is an SEO friendly way to redirect readers to a page’s new location. There are a lot of benefits of using HTTP 301 Redirect. These benefits can be found in the htaccess method post. htaccess or PHP can be both used for sending 301 redirects. The htaccess method can be found in
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Put the Categories, Archives and All Posts into Pages
Posted onI prefer putting pages that contains all the categories, archives and even all the posts in one page to putting these links in the side bar. Actually, most of time it needn’t to stay on every pages. And if it is in the side bar, the search engine will see these links in every page
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Change WordPress’s Excerpt Length
Posted onThe default excerpt length of WordPress is 55 words. Some one like me may want to change the excerpt length. I like the have a smaller excerpt length for the homepage. WordPress provides a interface for changing the default excerpt length. The method is very simple and easy. Put these codes into the function.php file
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Using noindex Meta Tag in WordPress to Prevent Search Engines Indexing Categories, Tags and Archives
Posted onWordPress may show “duplicate” content which may potentially confuse search engines. Duplicate content won’t hurt much, unless it is spam or keyword stuffing, as said by Matt Cutts, and Google may just ignore the duplicate content. However, instead of letting the search engines decide which pages of the duplicate ones are important, we may only
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How to Change the Site’s Default 404 Error Not Found Page
Posted onThe apache’s default “404 Error not found” page seems ugly. And may some hosting service put theire ads in it. We can add some entry in .htaccess to change the defualt 404 error page. This method can also be used for some other error codes. A list of the server returned codes can be found
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Use Excerpt in Index, Category, Tag and Arhieve Pages for WordPress
Posted onBy default, all of the content of the post is shown in index, category, tag, archive and search pages. This is duplicate contents which may cause search engine penalty. The better way is using excerpt in index, category, tag and arhieve pages. By doing this the duplication can be avoided and the blog is optimized.
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How to Redirect Old Domain to New Domain Using htaccess Redirect
Posted onI want to move the sub domain blog.pkill.info to systutorials.com permanently. I can manage all the pages I want to post using WordPress. Changing domain in a bad way is dangerous. Put a page the tell the reader that the site is moved to a new domain is very unfriendly to the user and also
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Using “META” Tag in HMTL HEAD to Redirect Pages
Posted onIt is quite simple to redirect pages using the “meta” tag in HTML head, I just give the example to redirect the page to https://www.systutorials.com after 1 second. <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=”Refresh” content=”1; url=https://www.systutorials.com/”> </head> <body> This page is redirected to: <a href=”https://www.systutorials.com/”>systutorials.com</a>.<br /> </body> </html>
Moved back to WordPress from MediaWiki
Posted onWordPress is so missed for many great features and plugins. Hence, we moved the site back to the WordPress system on Jul. 12, 2013. MediaWiki is great but, for this site, WordPress is a better solution. The so missed features of WordPress Related posts via the YARPP Plugin. URLs without strongly mapped to the title
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