Ninedays Blog

Exploring 3 Wordpress internal search plugins to see if they help fulfill my needs to track internal searches, as well as making lovely search query URL’s and ensuring that all content is begin searched.

In my site wide update to improve usability and search engine optimization I have devised a plan to audit and maintain my tagging problem. Hi my name is Terri and I have a tagging problem.

A code snippet update to a Wordpress 404 template that immediately redirects to a search if a tag no longer exists. It even re-directs with a 301 code to ensure search engine’s follow.

Getting too many 404 requests because you’ve deleted a post, or moved it/changed it’s name. Well there’s an easy way to make your Wordpress 404 page redirect to whatever page you need it to!

My guide to evaluating your category structure. I got 27 categories down to 12 mainly to help users get the most out of the category structure and to help try to stop myself from over complicating my sorting systems.

Ninedays Blog is looking at a moderate overhaul before the new year. There’s a number of things I really need to clean up around the site. I need to do a solid re-evaluation of all these Wordpress Plugins. I begin to think that so many of them are slowing the site down [...]

I’ve used ‘em all. And yes, I am showing off, I went from Greymatter to B2. Then it was Wordpress, dabbled with B2Evolution on the side. Gave Movable Type a shot, then played with Textpattern. Fell in love with Expression Engine but in the end I decided to come back to Wordpress. [...]