I have been having a few problems with plugin conflicts.
I just wanted to take a moment to remind myself what I have done for sake of reference.
The problem occurs between a pagination plugin, and a category exclusion plugin.
What I am trying to achieve is to exclude photo posts from main page. Done, But with this working my pagination gets screwed up.
I found this little hint on the wordpress codex forum. Here, bottom of page
and is a nice solution, because it does away with the need for the plugin that causes my pagination to go squiffy.
So I have turned off advanced category excluder in favor of the in code solution, and it seems to be working well. My only concern is, and I havn’t checked to be sure…
My page is now set to display max 5 posts, and on a number of pages I get only two. I think these are the pages where the photo posts would have appeared had they not been excluded. This will have to do for now.
I am currently beginning a clean re-code of blog, because with gained experience I know things can work in a more harmonious manner.
I have just finished a site for a client Lynsey Birchall, Photography, and as a addition have added a blog for photographic retouching, using the same base as with this blog, that being blix
It being an example of how a site should be coded.
October 23rd, 2007
Working it out
A little background. My blog, like many is currently set by default to display 10 posts on the page, I like this configuration, as I considered from the perspective of a random viewer there would be enough interesting content accessible from a quick scroll to grab the attention. (a few pics, a bit of text)
What I didn’t realize until recently was how search engines work and pages are indexed. In fact I still don’t, but I have made a couple of interesting discoveries.
Where to begin, I guess to get it straight I’ll start with my first web site Central12.
If I type central12 into google search, I will get a link to a post I made when starting this blog concerning the fate of the central12 site.
http://www.oikofugic.com/blog/archives/2006/12/19/central12-moved/
I am obviously happy to find this link here, and consider my efforts to achieve this once so illusive goal worth while.
The search request central12 brings up the link to the specific post I made about central12 as it should.
However if I do a google search for the following,
‘It’s a plugin mashup’, which is the title of a recent post, the search engine brings a link to my blog, oikofugic.com/blog, rather than to
http://www.oikofugic.com/blog/archives/2007/08/12/its-a-plugin-mashup/
which would obviously be preferable.
This I believe is the case because the first post has dropped off the front page, therefore it’s existence in cyber space is independent of the site index and thus gets crawled individually?
So I don’t know if there is a way around this little problem, apart from setting the blog to display only one post on the front page.
I have not noticed this until recently, as have only now begun to explore the realms of analytics.
I initially thought the situation might have arisen out of my dabbling in the code, changing the permalink structure in conjunction with a trackback spam blocker - experimenting with various other plugins. I know not..
Any Ideas out there.
September 12th, 2007
