Category: Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)

Removing the paragraph tags of WordPress post excerpt and category description

[ 5 Comments ] Posted on March 28, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), WordPress tweaks

By default, the PHP scripts that call the post excerpt and category description automatically insert paragraph tags. You can disable the automatic insertion of paragraph tags should in case you decided to use them for something that makes paragraph tags unnecessary; for example, using post excerpt as meta description.

Search engine optimization (SEO) of WordPress page title tags

[ No Comments ] Posted on February 15, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), WordPress tweaks

Unlike WordPress posts, which can have longer titles that contain significant keywords, page titles are usually shorter. This article discusses how to provide unique and keyword-rich HTML title for pages that is different from the usually shorter page title.

Search engine optimization of HTML title tags

[ No Comments ] Posted on February 8, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The HTML title tag is one of the most useful place in inserting keywords for search engine optimization. Search engines would always associate the words and phrases within the title tag to the webpage itself. However, title tags should be coherent and not spammy.

HTML title tag

[ No Comments ] Posted on February 1, 2009 under Definition, Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)

The title tag is an HTML code that determines the title of a web page. Two title tags always come in pair, the opening title tag and the closing title tag. The text between these tags appears in the top bar of the browser window as well as a hyperlink when your web page appears in the search engine results page.

WordPress meta description using post excerpt, category description and post ID

[ 4 Comments ] Posted on January 25, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), WordPress tweaks

While the major search engines no longer consider meta description as a deciding factor in giving a page a rank in the search engine result page, it still appears in the search results as a description of your website. Hence, you can use it to entice people to visit your website. It will be much better for a WordPress-powered website if each page and post has its own meta description, some PHP tweak can do just that.

Using meta robots in a WordPress blog or website

[ No Comments ] Posted on January 17, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), WordPress tweaks

Anyone with the basic knowledge of HTML understands that s/he can use meta robots to prevent search engines from indexing pages in a website, but what if you are using WordPress CMS and you want to prevent only a handful of dynamic pages from being indexed by search engine?

Search engine optimization (SEO) of WordPress theme title tags

[ 1 Comment ] Posted on January 12, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), WordPress tweaks

The title tag is one of the most important factors that search engines take into consideration. It would be certainly helpful if you can have absolute control of what is inside your title tag for any pages generated by WordPress CMS.

Margin and padding of block elements

[ No Comments ] Posted on December 27, 2008 under Cascading Stylesheet (CSS), Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)

Margin and padding are two important attributes that are useful in providing appropriate spacing between HTML elements. In particular, they are useful in rendering proper spacing among block elements in a pure CSS layout. The difference between margin and padding and how they render to block elements will be discussed in this article.

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