Sulumits Retsambew

Here is theme used on this blog as I promised. Sulumits Retsambew wp theme is based on Seo Simple by Internet Wealth Master, but I changed a lot of things, so that it fits my purpose. It is easily possible that this is most optimized wordpress seo theme ever.

Main characteristics of this improved theme are:

-         content close to the body (in original theme content is even closer)
-         valid xhtml/css
-         optimized h1 h2 h3 tags. Frontpage of the site has name of the site in h1, and blogposts in h2, blogposts pages have title of blogposts in h1.
-         works in Opera 10, Opera 9, Firefox, IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, Chrome and other browsers
-         lightweight (no images except logo, everything is done by using css)
-         static frontpage option with latest post on it
(to activate this set your Wordpress to use some page as frontpage then assign the Sulumits page template to that page, modify code of the sulumits.php to show all posts or to show posts only from certain category)

Some things are hard coded in to the template, so remember to check my code if you don’t have a clue how to change something.

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Since Sulumits Retsambew contest is going toward its end, I am going to reveal more and more things around this blog. Since this site is based on CMS Wordpress, I used many of his plugins to get what I exactly wanted. Here are exact plugins I used and why:

1. Akismet – Akismet is Wordpress spam watcher. Basicly I added Wordpress API key and selected option to delete the spam comments automatically on posts older then month.
2. All in One Adsense and YPN – This plugin insert flawlessly Google ads in the content. It’s known that in content ads perform better then other types of ads.
3. All in One SEO Pack – This plugin is must have. It arranges my titles and meta descriptions across the site.
4. Contact Form 7 – I used this plugin to generate Contact form with Captcha at my contact page.
5. Karailiev’s sitemap – This plugin generates Sitemap for spiders (Google). It does job on excellent way. After adding this it’s needed that you add your sitemap to your Google Webmasters Central.
6. Really Simple CAPTCHA – This plugin is needed for Contact form 7 plugin.
7. SEO Friendly Images – Excellent plugin for SEO-ing your images. This plugin will append post title to every image ALT tag and by that your images will become more relevant to the given topic. You can specify more option according to your taste.
8. Sociable – This plugin will add bunch of WEB 2.0 and social bookmark buttons so your visitors can easily bookmark it.
9. WP-Syntax – If you publish code from time to time, this plugin will do code highlighting for most programming languages.
10. WP-Pagenavi – This plugin will give you navigation numbers as you can see it on my Blog section. However I use manually coded version because of xhtml compliance.
11. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – This plugin will find relevant post by calculating not just simply using tags, but with complex algorithm that use, post titles, post content and other functions to find your related posts.

That would be plugins installed on this Sulumits Retsambew site. I would appreciate if you would share and suggest further plugins that you find useful in comments bellow.

I just worked on some site where I needed to have more then 15 recent posts listed in wordpress sidebar. However when I changed value in the default wordpress widget it did not worked. After researching little bit I found solution for Wordpress 2.8.
What you need is to do little hack on some wordpress core files. You can see example at above mentioned site.
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Aquarezz @ Netbuilders recently asked interesting question. How to limit number of tags shown in tag cloud on Wordpress powered sites. Well its very easy to limit or change the numbers if you decide to use some widget, but you can do it manually too. Only problem is that after Wordpress upgrade you will lose your modification, and you will need to do it again.

Here are steps how to do it:

1. Open the category-template.php

(it is located in the folder wp-includes)

2. Find this part of code in it

function wp_tag_cloud( $args = '' ) {
$defaults = array(
'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,
'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC',
'exclude' => '', 'include' => '', 'link' => 'view', 'taxonomy' => 'post_tag', 'echo' => true
);

its located under Display tags section…

3. Change the value ‘number’ => 45, to the number of desired tags

4. Save & refresh the page

That is it. Simple as I said.

Wordpress team is working hard and it did not passed much time after 2.7.1 Wordpress 2.8 (Baker) is out. I just upgraded this blog with one click upgrade, and everything passed just fine. New thing in this version are browsing for available themes from dashboard and one click install similar to plugins in 2.7.1. Widget page is redesigned, and speed is greatly increased. Wordpress team fixed over 790 known bugs for this release.

I noticed few days ago that my keyboard enter key does not work in Google search bar from my Opera browser. I researched little bit, and here is what I found.
Google added recently some new features to its search. But some of them like “query suggestion” have broken Javascript in them, so it stop enter functionality. Strange thing is that Google give one version of javascript to Firefox and another to Opera. If you mask Opera as Firefox everything will work, what gives me idea that Google maybe want to steal some of Opera browser users to their Chrome, but maybe I am just paranoic.

However don’t switch to another browser , here is workaround until Google resolve this issue.

Go to google site you use, then click on “preferences” and under “Query Suggestions” section select “Do not provide query suggestions in the search box.” and save the Preferences.

After that your enter will work as supposed to work.

There is another fix in the form of User JS. I did not test it but people say it works too.
Here is it http://www.tomec.net/files/google-enter.js. Just insert it in your User JS folder of Opera.