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.

DOWNLOAD SULUMITS RETSAMBEW SEO THEME

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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.

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Open it with some editor and find this part of code:

if ( !$number = (int) $instance['number'] )
$number = 10;
else if ( $number < 1 )
$number = 1;
else if ( $number > 15 )
$number = 15;

Its located on line 540 and 541.

Change the “15” at both place to max number of desired latest posts.

After that search for next occurence of “15”. It should be on line 589 with the text
“at most 15”. Change this too to your picked number.

Save the file. Go to widgets, and raise the number of your recent post it should work now.
Notice that after Wordpress upgrade you should do hack again.

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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.

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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.

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So here is his code validated:

/** 
* A pagination function 
* @param integer $range: The range of the slider, works best with even numbers 
* Used WP functions: 
* get_pagenum_link($i) - creates the link, e.g. http://site.com/page/4 
* previous_posts_link(' « '); - returns the Previous page link 
* next_posts_link(' » '); - returns the Next page link 
*/  
function get_pagination($range = 8){  
  // $paged - number of the current page  
  global $paged, $wp_query;  
  // How much pages do we have?  
  if ( !$max_page ) {  
    $max_page = $wp_query->max_num_pages;  
  }  
  // We need the pagination only if there are more than 1 page  
  if($max_page > 1){  
    if(!$paged){  
      $paged = 1;  
    }  
    // On the first page, don't put the First page link  
    if($paged != 1){  
      echo '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link(1) . '"> First </a>';  
    }  
    // To the previous page  
    previous_posts_link(' &#171; ');  
    // We need the sliding effect only if there are more pages than is the sliding range  
    if($max_page > $range){  
      // When closer to the beginning  
      if($paged < $range){  
        for($i = 1; $i <= ($range + 1); $i++){  
          echo '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link($i) .' "';  
          if($i==$paged) echo 'class="current"';  
          echo ">$i</a>";  
        }  
      }  
      // When closer to the end  
      elseif($paged >= ($max_page - ceil(($range/2)))){  
        for($i = $max_page - $range; $i <= $max_page; $i++){  
          echo '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link($i) .' "';  
          if($i==$paged) echo 'class="current"';  
          echo ">$i</a>";  
        }  
      }  
      // Somewhere in the middle  
      elseif($paged >= $range && $paged < ($max_page - ceil(($range/2)))){  
        for($i = ($paged - ceil($range/2)); $i <= ($paged + ceil(($range/2))); $i++){  
          echo '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link($i) .' "';  
          if($i==$paged) echo 'class="current"';  
          echo ">$i</a>";  
        }  
      }  
    }  
    // Less pages than the range, no sliding effect needed  
    else{  
      for($i = 1; $i <= $max_page; $i++){  
        echo '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link($i) .' "';  
        if($i==$paged) echo 'class="current"';  
        echo ">$i</a>";  
      }  
    }  
    // Next page  
    next_posts_link(' &#187; ');  
    // On the last page, don't put the Last page link  
    if($paged != $max_page){  
      echo '<a href="' . get_pagenum_link($max_page) . '"> Last </a>';  
    }  
  }  
}

After that you need to define in your theme index.php where the pagination will show itself, and you will do that with this piece of code:

<div class="navigation">  
        <?php get_pagination() ?>
</div>

Now you only need to style it to fit your current wordpress theme. For example since we wrapedd pagination into div with class “navigation” add this classes to your css and adopt the variables:

.navigation {  
display: block;  
text-align: center;  
margin-top: 10px;  
margin-bottom: 60px;  
font-size:80%;
border:1px solid #000000
}  
 
.navigation a{  
text-align:center;  
padding:5px 10px;  
margin:0 2px 0 2px;  
border:1px solid #000000;
background:#ffffff; 
}  
 
.navigation a:hover{  
background:#a90000;  
}

Example of the pagination you can see at this site blog section. And as I said again, credits for this code goes to this guy, I just validated the code.

Since this code because of copy/paste maybe have some extra spaces here you can download my link-template.php. It is from wordpress 2.7.1

link-template.zip

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Here is how to do it:

First thing if you use static page is to make template for that specific page. So first make the template let say frontpage.php. On the beginning of the code add this:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Front page
*/
?>

Then just copy all content from page.php bellow above code in frontpage.php.
Now we have customized code for our page. Go to Wordpress -> edit pages, on assign this template to our given page. Usually frontpage page.

Now we well add Latest post to our frontpage.

This code

<?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=23'); ?>   
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>   
<div class="post"> 
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="storycontent">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<div class="date">
<div class="meta">
<?php _e("Posted in "); ?> <?php the_category(',') ?> &#8212; <?php the_author() ?> @ <?php the_time() ?> @ <?php the_date('','',''); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit This')); ?>
</div>
</div>  
</div>
</div>  
<?php endwhile; ?>

will show last post title, link, and default number of words from last post. Put it on needed position in your frontpage.php. Make wanted tweaks in css for post, storycontent, date, meta or just replace this with equilalents from your template. Also you can wrap all this in another div and gave the latest post special look.

Now we want to change the amount of text that the excerpt() function return us!

In your theme function.php file add this:

add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
function my_excerpt_length($length) {
return 150; }

This code will modify excerpt and instead of default 100 it will show 150 words from given post.

You will notice that excerpt function has missing „Read more“ link at the end, and instead it will show [...].
You will replace [...] with the „Read more“ link with this code:

function excerpt_ellipse($text) {
   return str_replace('[...]', ' <a href="'.get_permalink().'">Read more...</a>', $text); }
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'excerpt_ellipse');

Add it also into your theme functions.php.

Be careful, to not add any space to the beginning or the end of the functions.php or you will get the „Cannot modify header information – headers already sent function.php wordpress“ error.

That is it. To see how this work check my Sulumits Retsambew frontpage. Notice that I show posts only from category that is related to the Sulumits Retsambew.

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