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Disabling the update nag 
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
WordPress' core update nag is quite the useful thing, I'll usually know before it shows that there's an update, but a lot of people won't. If you don't know what I mean with core update nag, it's this thing:
The issue is t
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Disabling SearchWiki
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
Google introduced Search Wiki, and opted me in without a method of disabling it. Thanks a lot Google. Not.
So I started searching for a way to disable. First I found this post , via
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Simple scripts for speedy WordPress actions
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
Sometimes, when moving or installing WordPress blogs, you'll have a need for some simple scripts to help do simple things. I found a couple of those that helped me out, and I thought I'd share them with you!
Easily in
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6 Serious Questions for Serious Bloggers - Yoast - Tweaking Websites
(unknown author) via yoast.com on Sun, 09 Nov. 2008
While it's a hobby for a lot of people, for more and more people, blogging is serious business too. Are you serious about your blog(s) and blogging
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Your homepage: your blogs showcase
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Thu, 06 Nov. 2008
When you get to a blog you've never visited before, through a search, a listing on a social network site or a link on another blog, what kind of page do you land up on? Usually, it'll be an article page. You'll read the article, and decide, based on that article and the other info and look & feel offered to you on that page, whether you'll go on through the site or not.
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Using the Technorati API on your blog
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
In my effort to remove all badges from my front page and decrease the load time, I have now moved to using the Technorati API to display Technorati info. It looks like this:
The code is almost as easy as the c
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Showing off your FeedBurner subscribers
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
Quite a few websites have started to show of their FeedBurner subscriber count with something else than a widget. To do that, you have to be able to grab the number of subscribers through the
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Easily display your last Tweet in 5 lines of code
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
I wanted to show my latest tweet on the front page of this site, and although I know there are several plugins which probably could've helped me do this, I decided to see how easy the API was to use.
It turned out to be incredibly easy, as long as you have PHP 5.2 or higher, that is.
This is the code:
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/class-snoopy.php');
$snoopy
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Install WordPress 2.6.3
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
Apparently, a security flaw has been found in the Snoopy library that WordPress uses. This has made the WordPress team put out a new release, WordPress 2.6.3. According to their blog post, you only have to change that class and the file holding the version number, but an a
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Switching from plain text to HTML emails
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Recently, I switched my WordPress News mailing-list from plain text to HTML. There were a couple of reasons for that:
I use a lot of links, and these were breaking up even a simple text layout, and I figured HTML email would increase the readability of the whole thing.
With HTML emails, because you're seeing normal link text, it
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Cool SEO tools roundup
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
Some of the cool SEO tools I've come across the last few days I just had to share with you:
Google Tutor has released a very cool Google Insights bookmarklet:
Once installed you should see a bookmark cleverly titled ‘Google Insights Bookmarklet’ on your bookmarks menu. To use the bookm
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6 Serious Questions for Serious Bloggers
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Thu, 09 Oct. 2008
While it's a hobby for a lot of people, for more and more people, blogging is serious business too. Are you serious about your blog(s) and blogging? Maybe you're even making a good income out of it? If so, you'd better make sure you can answer yes to all of the following questions:
1. Do you know first when your blog is down?
I've had this happen to me in the past quite
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11 Top WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
WordPress in itself is a decent system but it can be made into a rock solid blogging beast. Adding plugins can make WordPress into the Swiss Army Knife of blogging: just pull out whatev
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10 Checks to the Perfect WordPress theme
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
I've seen it happen so often. People have a great blog, and at some point, they decide they need a new look and feel. They then decide to either buy one or use one of the free themes available at wordpress.org. There's a couple of things they'll look at, usually in the order: layout / look and feel, usabi
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Measuring SEO: why rankings are worthless
Eduard Blacquière via Yoast on Wed, 10 Sep. 2008
While Joost is enjoying his well deserved honeymoon, he asked me to do a post as guest blogger. "As long as it's anything about search", he said. Alright, that's not so hard :) I thought I'd dive into the discussion of search engine rankings and what the value is in SEO. To match the style of Joost, let's take a fear standpoin
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Just Married!
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
Just before we go off on our honeymoon, 12 days on lovely Rhodes, I wanted you all to know that last friday, the 29th of August, I got married to my lovely Marieke!
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Google Analytics for WordPress - Yoast - Tweaking Websites
(unknown author) via yoast.com on Sun, 31 Aug. 2008
Adding Google Analytics to WordPress is easy, using it's complete power is not, unless you're using this plugin!
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SEO Link Analysis 1.0.4
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
Yahoo released the new SiteExplorer, which forced me to fix the SEO Link Analysis extension, which now works again with Yahoo's new interface (it won't work on the old one anymore).
Microsoft has
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Improved WordPress Breadcrumbs
Joost de Valk via Yoast on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
I love how open source works. I released an early version of my breadcrumbs plugin, and I got some great feedback from all of you here on the blog and in the blogosphere!
For instance, Damon Gudaitis of Life With Beer
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