Month: August 2009

Is Your WordPress Theme Threaded-Comments-Enabled?

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Threaded comments make it possible for your readers to start (or end) conversations with each other. Either way, it’s a cool feature to have.

Check your theme’s header.php file for a line of code that looks like this (should be before the body tag):
[php]<?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( ‘comment-reply’ ); ?>[/php]

If it isn’t there paste it in and save the file changes.

Then go to Settings>> Discussion and select the option to turn on threaded (nested) comments.

More options for threaded comments:

  • Break comments into pages with [15] comments per page and the [first] [last] page displayed by default.
  • Comments should be displayed with the [older] [newer] comments at the top of each page.

Please ONLY attempt the next steps if you are comfortable using FTP or your Control Panel File-Manager and editing theme files. And always back up.

  • Grab the latest comments.php file from WP 2.8+ /wp-content/themes/default.
  • Copy and Paste your theme’s comments CSS into a text file.
  • Open the Default theme style.css, Copy everything related to comments and Paste into your theme’s style.css.
  • Use your theme’s comments CSS as a reference for colors and borders,etc so the comments style will match your theme.

Fresh Fanatic, A Definite Plus

I’ve always said the one bad thing about living in this area was the lack of grocery stores.

Fresh Fanatic To The Rescue

  • They provide butcher service, sell Murray’s Chicken, stock fancy cheese
    and offer fresh baked bread.
  • Their prices seem reasonable.
  • The manager said we can make requests.
  • They are only 10 blocks from our house. I can walk there and haul the Grannie cart home,
    no sweat.
  • The B61 stops a few steps from their main entrance.
  • They are open until 9pm.
  • Fresh Fanatic is far enough from the school on Park & N Oxford that they will not be overrun
    with kiddies buying 25 cent packs of chips.
  • No 40’s, blunts or 25 cent packs of chips!

Hello WP Seo Bummer

POST UPDATED AUGUST 22 2009!

Version 1.6.4.1 of the All In One Seo Pack once again provides SEO for WP-E-Commerce sites.
Platinum SEO Pack still does not provide SEO for WP-E-Commerce sites.
The following post was not written as an attack against any plugin, WordPress or puppies and kittens. I was simply mourning the loss of something awesome.Which is now back and better than evah!

Used to be that you could use the All in One SEO Pack plugin (along with a code that you inserted between your header.php’s title tags) and you could have unique page titles on WP-E-Commerce Product Pages. It was really great.

But Not Anymore! And installing Platinum SEO Pack does nothing for this issue,either. OK, so I am not sure if it is the SEO plugins, the title tag code, WP 2.8.4 or the new version (3.7.1, not yet upgraded to 3.7.2) of the WP-E-Commerce plugin causing the de functionality of something that was totally beautiful and necessary: unique page titles for Product Pages.

All I know is older versions of all of these(except the title tag code-that is the same) let me have a unique page title when on a single product page. But upgrading everything else means all single product pages bear the exact same page title as the main product page which equals as many duplicate page title warnings in Google Webmaster Tools as you have products. So if you have 2 products, not so bad. If you have 1,200 products,not so good. Because why? Unique page titles rock, duplicate page titles do not rock, that’s why. Unique page titles mean better search results with better information passed to the online shopper, better business for online shop-keepers.

Want SEO for WP-E-Commerce sites ? Upgrade to Version 1.6.4.1 of the All In One Seo Pack !