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The Difference between WordPress Pages and Posts

Filed Under: Seo Basics, WordPress Manual

If you login to WordPress you have two big options in your administration dashboard: “Write a new page” and “Write a new post“.

The thing here is that in version 2.6. of WordPress the order of those two changed, first it was the Post and then the Page…
Looks like WordPress is heading to a more CMS Like software, most currently if we look at the new 2.7 Dashboard.

But one thing remains, Pages and Posts…

It is simply a matter of knowing what to use for what purpose.

WordPress Posts

Posts are really what makes WordPress so great for Blogging, Post will be presented in a time-line.
This means that the latest post will show up first before the rest of the Blog entries.

Posts can also be attached to categories, pages can't (unless we use a special Plugin)

In the archive pages there will be Posts that are labeled to belong to those Category or Tag.
You can also have Monthly archives and even Author Archives, but the are always in a Chronological order.

WordPress Pages

Pages are more static and that means you can use them any way you want to structure your WordPress website.
Pages are the way to go if you want to Build a Static WordPress website

There is a great Plugin called My Page Order that can help order your pages.
Pages can also be placed as a subpage to a Main page.

Managing page orders is with this Plugin as simple as dragging and dropping, but don't forget the hit save afterwards…

WordPress My Page Order Plugin

Joomla Dynamic Page Title option for Improving Internal Linking

Filed Under: Joomla Optimization, Joomla Seo

So, your are working hard on your Titles and improving them with relevant keywords and making them attractive for users… but do you have the Internal linking also down? 

One of the lesser used options on the Joomla SEO Configuration is the option to use Dynamic Page Titles.
But using this option can also increase your Search Engine Positions, because of the fact that your link to your pages with a link filled with Keywords, that is your article title!

If your use the read more option and show your articles on the Frontpage, you should use this option, it is a simple option to activate.
Just got to your Global Configuration (make sure your configuration.php is writable at this time and set it to unwritable afterwords) and go to the SEO Tab, there your find the two Options.

Use the Joomla Dynamic Page Title Option

The Drawbacks of using Dynamic Page Titles

When you activate this option, you might be in for a suprise… and not always a pleasant one..
Your website, and especially the front page looks very different than before!

So how did this happen? and how can you fix it?

Well, it is a difficult one to give you a simple solution, but it is easy to explain.
If you activate the option the way the page titles are used is different because it call another class from your Template CSS file, so you have to check your Template CSS and probable find a class like a.contentpagetitle that is the one to look for if you want to change the way your Titles look of they are active.

If your don't see any change, you could have a Template that already has corrected this to match the “normal” title or your template does not use a CSS class for the Title presentation.

So for strange behavior check your template and template CSS files first!

Change the options so it matches your site, or gives you nice layout for the titles and see over a few weeks if it works out for your search engine positions, if you see no results and don't like the layout, just uncheck the option.
Although I recommend leaving them on for a longer period, since it take a while for Google and other Search Engines to reindex your site based on your alterations.

Change Joomla Weblinks text

Filed Under: Building a Joomla website, Seo Basics

Change the standard Joomla text of the Weblinks component

 

Most people have the standard text of Joomla weblinks component in the Links page.

 

"We are regularly out on the web. When we find a great site we list it here for you to enjoy.
From the list below choose one of our weblink topics, then select a URL to visit. "

 

But what if you want to change this text, where do you go to change this text?

Location of the Text


This text comes from your language file that is located in the languages directory of your Joomla site.

 

The easiest way to change this text is bij going to you administrators panel > site > language manager > and then choose cthe language file you want to edit.

Af course it needs to be set to writeable…

 

How to change it

 

Find the section in this english.php file that says:

 

/** components/com_weblinks */
DEFINE(‘_WEBLINKS_TITLE','Web Links');
DEFINE(‘_WEBLINKS_DESC','We are regularly out on the web. When we find a great site we list'
.' it here for you to enjoy.  <br />From the list below choose one of our weblink topics, then select a URL to visit.');
DEFINE(‘_HEADER_TITLE_WEBLINKS','Web Link');
DEFINE(‘_SECTION','Section:');
DEFINE(‘_SUBMIT_LINK','Submit A Web Link');
DEFINE(‘_URL','URL:');
DEFINE(‘_URL_DESC','Description:');
DEFINE(‘_NAME','Name:');
DEFINE(‘_WEBLINK_EXIST','There is a Web Link already with that name, please try again.');
DEFINE(‘_WEBLINK_TITLE','Your Weblink must contain a title.');

 

(Psst.. its near the bottom of the file….)

 

Here you can change the first two lines to whatever suits your own needs.