I just ran a test on my hosted dev site. I ran the following: echo ‘<pre>’; global $wpdb; print_r($wpdb); print_r($GLOBALS); echo ‘</pre>’; There was no ‘wp_query’, ‘[q]’, or ‘search’ variables to be found. Note that I was not able to search this through a search engine as it’s not web accessible. Just to give you … Read more
How about something like this on your functions.php: add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘no_robots_on_uncategorized_posts’); function no_robots_on_uncategorized_posts() { if(in_category(‘uncategorized’)) { wp_no_robots(); } } This will output the following line of code on the header of your ‘uncategorized’ posts: <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow” /> What this means is that even though search engines will see the page, they will be told to … Read more
If your university webspace supports PHP and MySQL, you should be able to install WordPress at /~(myusername) (or at /~(myusername)/blog, if you don’t want to create your whole site with WP but use it for a blog, only). Typically you don’t need root access for that. But in any case, you should probably ask your … Read more
If you are using an SEO plugin such as Yoast, it automatically adds all Custom Post Types (and Taxonomies) to the sitemap that is used by Google & other search engines. You will need to explicitly exclude them from the sitemap e.g in Yoast, this is under the “Post Types”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”Taxomonies” tab in the “XML Sitemaps” … Read more
The basic problem for a script solution is: rel_canonical does not offer any useful filter. So we have to replace that function: remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘rel_canonical’ ); add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘t5_canonical_subpages’ ); The next problem: $GLOBALS[‘numpages’] is empty before setup_postdata(). We could call that function already here, but it might have side-effects. Here is a solution that … Read more
nslookup google.com is the easiest way. Works on Linux and Windows. If your issue is that your DNS server is not returning a response for google.com, use a different DNS server, such as a public one. For instance, you could do: nslookup>server 8.8.8.8>google.com For a more thorough solution to getting around annoying Internet filters, look … Read more
It’s HTML character references for encoding a character by its decimal code point Look at the ASCII table here and you’ll see that 39 (hex 0x27, octal 47) is the code for apostrophe