Using custom post type is great… From an SEO point of view the only thing you need to think of when talking about the URL is that it would “Tell a story” and wont have any ->> & symbols in it… What you should have is the main “custom post type page”, then the taxomonies … Read more
Short answer: No, it does not have any impact at all. Longer answer: The ‘Order’ field is a remnant from the early days of WordPress. Its only purpose is to order the pages in the admin for easier content management. Plus, people can use it to display a list of pages in their preferred order, … Read more
Assuming you have already changed the permalinks structure as @RickHellewell suggests, then you can do something like the following near the top of your .htaccess file (before the existing WP front-controller) to redirect the old URLs (with the stated format) in order to preserve SEO. RewriteRule ^\d{4}/\d\d/([a-z-]+\.html)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
The best way of doing that is actually by just copying the post to your new blog, and on your old blog, add a rel=”canonical” link to that page to your new post’s URL. This will notify Google and other SE’s that you want to have the other, new, page ranking, without actually having to … Read more
Short answer: No. When you’re working with SEO, there are three things to take into account: Site content Site meta descriptions Site findability (it’s a word, I swear!) Site Content Search engines will parse your site’s content looking for content and keywords. Create good, useful content and it will be fetched, parsed, and recorded appropriately. … Read more
You cad add it via functions.php with a hook, instead of inside the loop (you don’t really want to add a loop to header.php): function add_author_meta() { if (is_single()){ global $post; $author = get_the_author_meta(‘user_nicename’, $post->post_author); echo “<meta name=\”author\” content=\”$author\”>”; } } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘add_author_meta’ );
Didn’t try this myself (self-hosted from the start), but this seems fitting guide for your situation: How to Migrate your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain ( Digital Inspiration )
You should add your own custom query variable first: function add_search_store_query_var($vars) { $vars[] = ‘search_store’; return $vars; } add_filter( ‘query_vars’, ‘add_search_store_query_var’); And then add rewrite rule: function add_search_store_rewrite_rule() { add_rewrite_rule(‘stores/([^/]+)$’, ‘index.php?page_id=<YOUR SEARCH PAGE ID>&search_store=$matches[1]’, ‘top’); } add_action(‘init’, ‘add_search_store_rewrite_rule’); You can then use get_query_var(‘search_store’); to get search term. Just remember to flush rewrite rules, before you … Read more
It also doesn’t matter which URL part is changed, except the last one. So this still shows the content of the original page. Yes, because your taxonomy’s rewrite is hierarchical with the permalink structure /treatment/<term slug> (e.g. /treatment/psychosomatic) or /treatment/<term slug>/<term slug>/… (if the term is a child term, e.g. /treatment/psychosomatic/psychosomatic-dysfunction), so as long as … Read more
Here’s two different solutions (editing the specifics for your use case): Doing a Redirect: 1.) At the top of your /wp-config.php file add the following: if ( is_yoursite_blogger_domain( $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] ) ) { $domain = str_replace( ‘www.’, ”, $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] ); define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $domain ); define( ‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $domain ); } else if ( … Read more