ADD POST META DESCRIPTIONS
Open the header.php file of your theme and copy and paste the code below to the space between the opening and closing tags.
<meta name="description" content="
<?php if ( (is_home()) || (is_front_page()) ) {
echo ('Your main description goes here');
} elseif(is_category()) {
echo category_description();
} elseif(is_tag()) {
echo '-tag archive page for this blog' . single_tag_title();
} elseif(is_month()) {
echo 'archive page for this blog' . the_time('F, Y');
} else {
echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "Metadescription", true);
}?>">
REDIRECT 404 PAGES TO HOME PAGE
Copy the following snippet code to the .htacess file to redirect the 404 error pages to your home page.
< IfModule mod_alias.c > RedirectMatch 301 ^/search/$ http://your-site.com/ RedirectMatch 301 ^/tag/$ http://your-site.com/ RedirectMatch 301 ^/category/$ http://your-site.com/ < /IfModule >
DISPLAY SIMILAR POSTS WITHOUT PLUGINS
Copy and paste it to the functions.php file.
<?php
//for use in the loop, list 5 post titles related to first tag on
//current post
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID);
if ($tags) {
echo 'Related Posts';
$first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id;
$args=array(
'tag__in' => array($first_tag),
'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
'showposts'=>5,
'caller_get_posts'=>1
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="
Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
<?php
endwhile;
}
}
?>
DISPLAY NUMBER OF FACEBOOK FANS
Replace your current page ID with your personal Facebook page id
<?php
$page_id = "YOUR PAGE-ID";
$xml = @simplexml_load_file("http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.fql.query&query=SELECT%20fan_count%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20page_id=".$page_id."") or die ("a lot");
$fans = $xml->page->fan_count;
echo $fans;
?>
CREATE CUSTOM WIDGETS
Copy and paste the following code into your functions.php file.
class My_Widget extends WP_Widget {
function My_Widget() {
parent::WP_Widget(false, 'Our Test Widget');
}
function form($instance) {
// outputs the options form on admin
}
function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
// processes widget options to be saved
return $new_instance;
}
function widget($args, $instance) {
// outputs the content of the widget
}
}
register_widget('My_Widget');
DISPLAY GOOGLE USERS’ SEARCH TERMS
Paste the following code outside the header section.
<?php
$refer = $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
if (strpos($refer, "google")) {
$refer_string = parse_url($refer, PHP_URL_QUERY);
parse_str($refer_string, $vars);
$search_terms = $vars['q'];
echo 'Welcome Google visitor! You searched for the following terms to get here: ';
echo $search_terms;
};
?>
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