Reduce Duplicate Content in WordPress Archives with robots.txt

My WordPress blog url structure for posts is of this pattern: /blog/year/month/date/post-title/

Ignoring the fact that a post could also show up in /blog/ and /blog/category/ and other places, the same post could show up in:

/blog/2007/

/blog/2007/07/

/blog/2007/07/21/

/blog/2007/07/21/post-title/

The duplication is not as big of a concern (to me) as the possibly poor [...]

How to Minimize Duplicate Content in WordPress Blog

After reading this post at Google’s Webmaster Group, I was inspired to find out how to stop displaying full content on pages where posts were listed in categories, archives, etc. I am not so concerned about duplicate content as much as I don’t like for people to find a result in a category page but [...]

How to Switch Title Tokens in WordPress

I wanted to switch my blog’s title tag to go from:

Thu Tu’s Blog > Post Title

to

Post Title | Thu Tu’s Blog

It turned out that it wasn’t as simple as switching the tokens around in the theme’s header.php file.

I did a search and found the solution here.

When I copied and [...]

Implemented Pretty Permalinks

After much internal debate, I finally decided to change my WordPress blog to use pretty permalinks. It was a difficult decision to make with lots of pros and cons to consider. I placed an asterisk next to cons that turned out to be irrelevant.

Cons to using or switching to pretty urls

I like [...]

Five Reasons I Blog

I’ve been blog-tagged by Adam (tag) and Sebastian (tag) to write about why I blog.

First, let me clarify that there have been three incarnations of my blog. When I started in 2004, I used a phpbb forum to post “blog” entries. I did it for three months but then lost interest. In early 2006, [...]

 

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