Wordpress is a fabulous software for blogging. But having downloaded wordpress and making the posts is just not enough. You have to customize it! You also have to think making money from your blog, optimizing it and make it user friendly. It is very important for a blog to get good search engine rankings. Here are the most important 3 customisations to be done with your wordpress script.
1. Install Adsense Plugin
Why not earn money from your blog? Install a adsense plugin so that you make money from adsense ads. You can install plugins like adman or adsense manager
2. Title Tags
By default wordpress doesnt show up title of the blog posts and it is clipped. Showing the full title on the title tag is so important to achieve good search engine ranking! You have to customize the code in the index template page
Go to Presentation > Theme Editor > Header and look for the code between <title> and </title> tag. Replace it with
<title>
<?php
{ wp_title(); ?>
» <?php bloginfo('name');
} ?>
</title>
It is a simple title optimization that only shows up title pages and blog post name. It shows the blog post title upfront and then the blog name. On the main page it shows the blog name only.
3. Frontpage Post Summarizing
By default wordpress shows the entire posts on the front page. You dont want the whole posts to be dumped on the front page of wordpress, instead just show the few lines of summary by clipping with read more option. By this way your visitors can easily read a lot many previous posts in your blog from the front page.
To display summary, just go Presentation > Theme Editor > Main Index Template
look for
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?>
and replace with
<?php the_excerpt('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?>
This will line up posts with summary. It is an elegant way of showing blog under categories and archives.
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